The Idiot
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The Idiot is Iggy Pop’s 1977 debut solo studio album, co-written and produced with David Bowie, that helped pioneer the darker, experimental sound of post-punk.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Idiot canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5135835 — 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: The Idiot Context triple: [Iggy Pop, soloAlbum, The Idiot]
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The Idiot
The Idiot is a 19th-century novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores innocence, morality, and the corruption of society through the tragic figure of Prince Myshkin.
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The Idiot
The Idiot is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel of the same name and transposed to a postwar Hokkaido setting.
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The Idiots
The Idiots is a 1998 Danish drama film directed by Lars von Trier, known for its provocative exploration of social norms and its role in the Dogme 95 movement.
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Our Idiot Brother
Our Idiot Brother is a 2011 American comedy film starring Paul Rudd as an idealistic, well-meaning but hapless brother whose naivety disrupts his sisters’ lives.
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An Idiot Abroad
An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary comedy series that follows Karl Pilkington’s reluctant journeys around the world, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
- 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: The Idiot Target entity description: The Idiot is Iggy Pop’s 1977 debut solo studio album, co-written and produced with David Bowie, that helped pioneer the darker, experimental sound of post-punk.
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A.
The Idiot
The Idiot is a 19th-century novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores innocence, morality, and the corruption of society through the tragic figure of Prince Myshkin.
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B.
The Idiot
The Idiot is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel of the same name and transposed to a postwar Hokkaido setting.
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C.
The Idiots
The Idiots is a 1998 Danish drama film directed by Lars von Trier, known for its provocative exploration of social norms and its role in the Dogme 95 movement.
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D.
Our Idiot Brother
Our Idiot Brother is a 2011 American comedy film starring Paul Rudd as an idealistic, well-meaning but hapless brother whose naivety disrupts his sisters’ lives.
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E.
An Idiot Abroad
An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary comedy series that follows Karl Pilkington’s reluctant journeys around the world, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Idiot Description of subject: The Idiot is Iggy Pop’s 1977 debut solo studio album, co-written and produced with David Bowie, that helped pioneer the darker, experimental sound of post-punk.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nightclubbing (song by Iggy Pop and David Bowie)
subject linked to:
Nightclubbing (song by Iggy Pop and David Bowie)