backing band "The Band" (touring band)
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Backing band "The Band" (touring band) is the live ensemble that supported singer-songwriter Tori Amos on tour, performing and arranging her music in concert settings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| backing band "The Band" (touring band) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5297784 — 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: backing band "The Band" (touring band) Context triple: [Tori Amos, hasPart, backing band "The Band" (touring band)]
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A.
Bob Dylan touring band
The Bob Dylan touring band is the ensemble of musicians that has accompanied Bob Dylan in his live performances across various tours and eras.
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B.
Bob Dylan and The Band
Bob Dylan and The Band is a collaborative rock group formed when singer-songwriter Bob Dylan joined forces with the Canadian-American roots rock ensemble The Band, known for their influential tours and recordings in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
The Band (album)
The Band (album) is the influential 1969 roots rock record by The Band, widely acclaimed for its Americana storytelling and songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Up on Cripple Creek."
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D.
E Street Band
The E Street Band is the longtime backing group renowned for its energetic live performances and recordings with American rock musician Bruce Springsteen.
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E.
Cal Band
Cal Band is the renowned marching band of the University of California, Berkeley, known for its spirited performances at athletic events and campus traditions.
- 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: backing band "The Band" (touring band) Target entity description: Backing band "The Band" (touring band) is the live ensemble that supported singer-songwriter Tori Amos on tour, performing and arranging her music in concert settings.
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A.
Bob Dylan touring band
The Bob Dylan touring band is the ensemble of musicians that has accompanied Bob Dylan in his live performances across various tours and eras.
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B.
Bob Dylan and The Band
Bob Dylan and The Band is a collaborative rock group formed when singer-songwriter Bob Dylan joined forces with the Canadian-American roots rock ensemble The Band, known for their influential tours and recordings in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
The Band (album)
The Band (album) is the influential 1969 roots rock record by The Band, widely acclaimed for its Americana storytelling and songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Up on Cripple Creek."
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D.
E Street Band
The E Street Band is the longtime backing group renowned for its energetic live performances and recordings with American rock musician Bruce Springsteen.
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E.
Cal Band
Cal Band is the renowned marching band of the University of California, Berkeley, known for its spirited performances at athletic events and campus traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical ensemble
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touring backing band ⓘ |
| activity |
arranging Tori Amos’s songs for live settings
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performing Tori Amos’s music in concert ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Tori Amos ⓘ |
| associatedGenre |
alternative rock
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baroque pop ⓘ piano rock ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasMemberRole |
backing vocalist
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bassist ⓘ drummer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
live reinterpretations of studio recordings
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supporting Tori Amos’s piano-centered performances ⓘ |
| performanceContext | concert tours ⓘ |
| performsRepertoireOf | Tori Amos ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | backing band for live performances ⓘ |
| role | live accompaniment to Tori Amos ⓘ |
| supportedArtist | Tori Amos ⓘ |
| typicalSetting |
large concert venues
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music festivals ⓘ theaters ⓘ |
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: backing band "The Band" (touring band) Description of subject: Backing band "The Band" (touring band) is the live ensemble that supported singer-songwriter Tori Amos on tour, performing and arranging her music in concert settings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos, married name Arnold)