Swordfishtrombones
E433015
Swordfishtrombones is a critically acclaimed 1983 album by Tom Waits that marked his shift toward a more experimental, avant-garde sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Swordfishtrombones canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4358824 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Swordfishtrombones Context triple: [Tom Waits, notableAlbum, Swordfishtrombones]
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A.
Rattle and Hum
Rattle and Hum is a 1988 U2 album and companion documentary film that blends live performances, studio recordings, and explorations of American musical roots.
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B.
Spoonman
"Spoonman" is a Grammy-winning 1994 grunge single by Soundgarden, written by Chris Cornell and inspired by Seattle street performer Artis the Spoonman.
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C.
The Bass
The Bass is a contemporary art museum in Miami Beach, Florida, known for its exhibitions of international modern and contemporary art.
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D.
Brass Monkey
"Brass Monkey" is a popular party-themed hip hop track by the Beastie Boys from their debut album *Licensed to Ill*, known for its catchy hook and references to a cocktail of the same name.
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E.
Basketful of Heads
Basketful of Heads is a horror comic miniseries written by Joe Hill that blends slasher-style violence with dark humor and supernatural elements.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Swordfishtrombones Target entity description: Swordfishtrombones is a critically acclaimed 1983 album by Tom Waits that marked his shift toward a more experimental, avant-garde sound.
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A.
Rattle and Hum
Rattle and Hum is a 1988 U2 album and companion documentary film that blends live performances, studio recordings, and explorations of American musical roots.
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B.
Spoonman
"Spoonman" is a Grammy-winning 1994 grunge single by Soundgarden, written by Chris Cornell and inspired by Seattle street performer Artis the Spoonman.
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C.
The Bass
The Bass is a contemporary art museum in Miami Beach, Florida, known for its exhibitions of international modern and contemporary art.
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D.
Brass Monkey
"Brass Monkey" is a popular party-themed hip hop track by the Beastie Boys from their debut album *Licensed to Ill*, known for its catchy hook and references to a cocktail of the same name.
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E.
Basketful of Heads
Basketful of Heads is a horror comic miniseries written by Joe Hill that blends slasher-style violence with dark humor and supernatural elements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Swordfishtrombones Description of subject: Swordfishtrombones is a critically acclaimed 1983 album by Tom Waits that marked his shift toward a more experimental, avant-garde sound.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.