Surfer Rosa
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Surfer Rosa is a critically acclaimed 1988 debut full-length album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, known for its raw sound, dynamic loud-quiet-loud style, and major influence on 1990s rock music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surfer Rosa canonical | 37 |
| Surfer Rosa – Pixies | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T767631 — 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: Surfer Rosa Context triple: [Steve Albini, notableWork, Surfer Rosa]
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A.
Dookie
Dookie is the breakthrough 1994 punk rock album by Green Day that helped popularize pop-punk worldwide.
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B.
Less Than Zero
Less Than Zero is a 1987 American drama film, loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, that follows wealthy Los Angeles teenagers spiraling into drug addiction and moral decay.
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C.
In Utero
In Utero is Nirvana’s raw, abrasive 1993 studio album, renowned for its unpolished sound and influential role in defining the grunge era.
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D.
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is U2’s critically acclaimed 1987 rock album known for its atmospheric sound and politically charged anthems like “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
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E.
Born to Run
Born to Run is Bruce Springsteen’s landmark 1975 rock album, celebrated for its anthemic sound, cinematic storytelling, and role in establishing him as a major American rock icon.
- 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: Surfer Rosa Target entity description: Surfer Rosa is a critically acclaimed 1988 debut full-length album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, known for its raw sound, dynamic loud-quiet-loud style, and major influence on 1990s rock music.
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A.
Dookie
Dookie is the breakthrough 1994 punk rock album by Green Day that helped popularize pop-punk worldwide.
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B.
Less Than Zero
Less Than Zero is a 1987 American drama film, loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, that follows wealthy Los Angeles teenagers spiraling into drug addiction and moral decay.
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C.
In Utero
In Utero is Nirvana’s raw, abrasive 1993 studio album, renowned for its unpolished sound and influential role in defining the grunge era.
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D.
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is U2’s critically acclaimed 1987 rock album known for its atmospheric sound and politically charged anthems like “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
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E.
Born to Run
Born to Run is Bruce Springsteen’s landmark 1975 rock album, celebrated for its anthemic sound, cinematic storytelling, and role in establishing him as a major American rock icon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Surfer Rosa Description of subject: Surfer Rosa is a critically acclaimed 1988 debut full-length album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, known for its raw sound, dynamic loud-quiet-loud style, and major influence on 1990s rock music.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
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subject linked to:
I’m Amazed
subject linked to:
I’m Amazed
subject linked to:
I’m Amazed
linked to: Surfer Rosa
subject linked to:
4AD Records