The Innocent Criminals
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The Innocent Criminals is an American backing band best known for performing and recording with singer-songwriter Ben Harper, blending rock, blues, soul, and reggae influences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Innocent Criminals canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9988203 — 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 Innocent Criminals Context triple: [Ben Harper, collaboratedWith, The Innocent Criminals]
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A.
The Criminals
The Criminals is a punk rock band known for featuring guitarist Jason White, who later gained prominence with Green Day.
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B.
Ne’er-Do-Wells
Ne’er-Do-Wells is a musical group known for its association with musician Bill Schneider.
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C.
Guilty Men
Guilty Men is a 1940 polemical book, co-authored by Michael Foot under a pseudonym, that fiercely condemned British appeasement policies toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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D.
Rough Justice
Rough Justice is a fast-paced political and military thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring international intrigue and covert operations.
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E.
The Criminal Kind
The Criminal Kind is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers featured on their 1981 album "Hard Promises."
- 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 Innocent Criminals Target entity description: The Innocent Criminals is an American backing band best known for performing and recording with singer-songwriter Ben Harper, blending rock, blues, soul, and reggae influences.
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A.
The Criminals
The Criminals is a punk rock band known for featuring guitarist Jason White, who later gained prominence with Green Day.
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B.
Ne’er-Do-Wells
Ne’er-Do-Wells is a musical group known for its association with musician Bill Schneider.
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C.
Guilty Men
Guilty Men is a 1940 polemical book, co-authored by Michael Foot under a pseudonym, that fiercely condemned British appeasement policies toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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D.
Rough Justice
Rough Justice is a fast-paced political and military thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring international intrigue and covert operations.
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E.
The Criminal Kind
The Criminal Kind is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers featured on their 1981 album "Hard Promises."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | musical ensemble ⓘ |
| activeWithArtist |
1990s Ben Harper tours
ⓘ
2000s Ben Harper tours ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Ben Harper
ⓘ
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals ⓘ
linked to:
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
|
| collaboratesWith | Ben Harper ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
reggae ⓘ rock music ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Jason Yates
ⓘ
Juan Nelson ⓘ Leon Mobley ⓘ Michael Ward ⓘ Oliver Charles ⓘ |
| hasRole |
backing band for live performances
ⓘ
backing band for studio recordings ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ percussion ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
performing with Ben Harper
ⓘ
recording with Ben Harper ⓘ |
| notableWorkWith | Ben Harper ⓘ |
| occupation |
recording band
ⓘ
touring band ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic | blend of rock, blues, soul, and reggae ⓘ |
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 Innocent Criminals Description of subject: The Innocent Criminals is an American backing band best known for performing and recording with singer-songwriter Ben Harper, blending rock, blues, soul, and reggae influences.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.