Material
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Material is an experimental New York-based band led by bassist Bill Laswell, known for its genre-blending fusion of funk, jazz, dub, and avant-garde music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Material canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5349924 — 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: Material Context triple: [Rockit, producer, Material]
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A.
Mattertal
Mattertal is a high alpine valley in the Swiss canton of Valais, known for its dramatic peaks including the Matterhorn and its popular mountaineering and ski resorts.
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B.
matter (hyle)
Matter (hyle) is Aristotle’s concept of the underlying, indeterminate substrate that, together with form, constitutes the being of physical substances in his metaphysical system.
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C.
Nylon
Nylon is a family of synthetic polymers widely used as strong, lightweight fibers and plastics in textiles, engineering components, and consumer products.
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D.
Tyvek
Tyvek is a durable, lightweight, synthetic material widely used for protective garments, packaging, and weather-resistant building wraps.
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E.
Composite
Composite is a structural design pattern that lets you treat individual objects and compositions of objects uniformly by organizing them into tree-like hierarchies.
- 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: Material Target entity description: Material is an experimental New York-based band led by bassist Bill Laswell, known for its genre-blending fusion of funk, jazz, dub, and avant-garde music.
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A.
Mattertal
Mattertal is a high alpine valley in the Swiss canton of Valais, known for its dramatic peaks including the Matterhorn and its popular mountaineering and ski resorts.
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B.
matter (hyle)
Matter (hyle) is Aristotle’s concept of the underlying, indeterminate substrate that, together with form, constitutes the being of physical substances in his metaphysical system.
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C.
Nylon
Nylon is a family of synthetic polymers widely used as strong, lightweight fibers and plastics in textiles, engineering components, and consumer products.
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D.
Tyvek
Tyvek is a durable, lightweight, synthetic material widely used for protective garments, packaging, and weather-resistant building wraps.
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E.
Composite
Composite is a structural design pattern that lets you treat individual objects and compositions of objects uniformly by organizing them into tree-like hierarchies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | band ⓘ |
| activeStart | late 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bill Laswell
ⓘ
Golden Palominos ⓘ
linked to:
The Golden Palominos
Massacre ⓘ Praxis ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Bootsy Collins
ⓘ
Fred Frith ⓘ Henry Threadgill ⓘ Nona Hendryx ⓘ Shankar ⓘ Sly and Robbie ⓘ Sonny Sharrock ⓘ Whitney Houston ⓘ William S. Burroughs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
avant-garde music
ⓘ
dub ⓘ funk ⓘ fusion ⓘ jazz ⓘ no wave ⓘ post-punk ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Bernie Worrell
ⓘ
Bill Laswell ⓘ Cliff Cultreri ⓘ Fred Frith ⓘ Fred Maher ⓘ Henry Threadgill ⓘ Michael Beinhorn ⓘ Nicky Skopelitis ⓘ Nona Hendryx ⓘ Shankar ⓘ Sonny Sharrock ⓘ Whitney Houston ⓘ |
| leader | Bill Laswell ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Ciquiri
ⓘ
Let Me See You Dance ⓘ Memories ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hallucination Engine
ⓘ
Memory Serves ⓘ
linked to:
While Memory Serves
One Down ⓘ Seven Souls ⓘ The Third Power ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Axiom
ⓘ
Celluloid Records ⓘ Elektra Records ⓘ |
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: Material Description of subject: Material is an experimental New York-based band led by bassist Bill Laswell, known for its genre-blending fusion of funk, jazz, dub, and avant-garde music.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.