Clive Langer and the Boxes
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Clive Langer and the Boxes was a short-lived late-1970s British new wave band led by producer and guitarist Clive Langer, known for its quirky, art-rock-influenced sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clive Langer and the Boxes canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9646356 — 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: Clive Langer and the Boxes Context triple: [Clive Langer, memberOf, Clive Langer and the Boxes]
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A.
The Clapper
"The Clapper" is a track from J Dilla's influential debut studio album "Welcome 2 Detroit," showcasing his signature soulful, sample-based hip-hop production.
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B.
The Clapper
The Clapper is a 2017 American comedy film, based on Dito Montiel’s novel, about a professional audience member whose life is upended after unexpected television exposure.
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C.
Man in the Box
"Man in the Box" is a heavy, grunge-era song by Alice in Chains known for its distinctive vocal effects, dark lyrics, and status as one of the band's signature tracks.
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D.
Black Box
Black Box is a monumental minimalist sculpture by American artist Tony Smith, known for its stark geometric form and exploration of space and perception.
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E.
Black Box
"Black Box" is a prominent epistolary novel by Israeli author Amos Oz that explores family conflict, politics, and identity in modern Israeli society.
- 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: Clive Langer and the Boxes Target entity description: Clive Langer and the Boxes was a short-lived late-1970s British new wave band led by producer and guitarist Clive Langer, known for its quirky, art-rock-influenced sound.
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A.
The Clapper
"The Clapper" is a track from J Dilla's influential debut studio album "Welcome 2 Detroit," showcasing his signature soulful, sample-based hip-hop production.
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B.
The Clapper
The Clapper is a 2017 American comedy film, based on Dito Montiel’s novel, about a professional audience member whose life is upended after unexpected television exposure.
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C.
Man in the Box
"Man in the Box" is a heavy, grunge-era song by Alice in Chains known for its distinctive vocal effects, dark lyrics, and status as one of the band's signature tracks.
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D.
Black Box
"Black Box" is a prominent epistolary novel by Israeli author Amos Oz that explores family conflict, politics, and identity in modern Israeli society.
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E.
Black Box
Black Box is a monumental minimalist sculpture by American artist Tony Smith, known for its stark geometric form and exploration of space and perception.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
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guitarist ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activePeriodEnd | late 1970s ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | late 1970s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Clive Langer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describedAs |
British new wave band
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short-lived ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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new wave ⓘ post-punk ⓘ |
| hasMember | Clive Langer ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| leader | Clive Langer ⓘ |
| leaderOf | Clive Langer and the Boxes ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| memberOf | Clive Langer and the Boxes ⓘ |
| notableFor | quirky art-rock-influenced sound ⓘ |
| occupation |
music producer
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songwriter ⓘ |
| soundCharacterizedAs |
art-rock-influenced
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quirky ⓘ |
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: Clive Langer and the Boxes Description of subject: Clive Langer and the Boxes was a short-lived late-1970s British new wave band led by producer and guitarist Clive Langer, known for its quirky, art-rock-influenced sound.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.