US Festival
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The US Festival was a large-scale early-1980s California music and technology festival founded and funded by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, known for its massive crowds and ambitious production.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US Festival canonical | 1 |
| US Festival 1982 Country Day | 1 |
| US Festival 1982 New Wave Day | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1008901 — 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: US Festival Context triple: [Steve Wozniak, notableWork, US Festival]
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A.
Governors Ball Music Festival
Governors Ball Music Festival is a major annual multi-day music festival in New York City known for its diverse lineup of popular artists and genres.
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B.
Summerfest music festival
Summerfest music festival is a massive annual multi-day music festival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, renowned as one of the world’s largest music festivals, featuring numerous stages and a wide variety of performers.
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C.
Way Out West Festival
Way Out West Festival is a major annual music and arts festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, known for its diverse lineup, urban park setting, and strong environmental profile.
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D.
Big Ears Festival
Big Ears Festival is an annual avant-garde music and arts festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its adventurous programming that spans experimental, classical, jazz, and indie genres.
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E.
PeakFest
PeakFest is an annual community street festival in Apex, North Carolina, featuring local vendors, live entertainment, food, and family-friendly activities.
- 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: US Festival Target entity description: The US Festival was a large-scale early-1980s California music and technology festival founded and funded by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, known for its massive crowds and ambitious production.
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A.
Governors Ball Music Festival
Governors Ball Music Festival is a major annual multi-day music festival in New York City known for its diverse lineup of popular artists and genres.
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B.
Summerfest music festival
Summerfest music festival is a massive annual multi-day music festival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, renowned as one of the world’s largest music festivals, featuring numerous stages and a wide variety of performers.
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C.
Way Out West Festival
Way Out West Festival is a major annual music and arts festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, known for its diverse lineup, urban park setting, and strong environmental profile.
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D.
Big Ears Festival
Big Ears Festival is an annual avant-garde music and arts festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its adventurous programming that spans experimental, classical, jazz, and indie genres.
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E.
PeakFest
PeakFest is an annual community street festival in Apex, North Carolina, featuring local vendors, live entertainment, food, and family-friendly activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music festival
ⓘ
rock festival ⓘ |
| approximateAttendance | over 400000 attendees across events ⓘ |
| attendance | hundreds of thousands of people ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| endTime |
1982-09-05
ⓘ
1983-05-30 ⓘ |
| founder | Steve Wozniak ⓘ |
| genre |
country music
ⓘ
heavy metal music ⓘ new wave music ⓘ pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| hasPart |
US Festival 1982
ⓘ
US Festival self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
US Festival 1982 Country Day
US Festival self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
US Festival 1982 New Wave Day
US Festival 1982 ⓘ
surface form:
US Festival 1982 Rock Day
US Festival 1983 Heavy Metal Day ⓘ
surface form:
US Festival 1983
US Festival 1983 Heavy Metal Day ⓘ
surface form:
US Festival 1983 Country Day
US Festival 1983 Heavy Metal Day ⓘ US Festival 1982 ⓘ
surface form:
US Festival 1983 New Wave Day
US Festival 1983 Heavy Metal Day ⓘ
surface form:
US Festival 1983 Rock Day
|
| inception | 1982 ⓘ |
| location |
Devore, California
ⓘ
Glen Helen ⓘ
surface form:
Glen Helen Regional Park
|
| motto | celebration of the 1980s and the future ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
advanced sound and video systems for its time
ⓘ
integration of music and technology ⓘ large-scale outdoor stage production ⓘ massive crowds ⓘ multiple themed days of music ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambitious production scale
ⓘ
early example of tech-funded mega-festival ⓘ financial losses despite large crowds ⓘ high production costs ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Fleetwood Mac
ⓘ
Judas Priest ⓘ Motley Crue ⓘ Ozzy Osbourne ⓘ The Clash ⓘ Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ⓘ U2 ⓘ Van Halen ⓘ |
| numberOfEditions | 2 ⓘ |
| organizer | Steve Wozniak ⓘ |
| purpose | to combine music, technology, and culture ⓘ |
| sponsor |
Steve Wozniak
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
|
| startTime |
1982-09-03
ⓘ
1983-05-28 ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| timePeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
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: US Festival Description of subject: The US Festival was a large-scale early-1980s California music and technology festival founded and funded by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, known for its massive crowds and ambitious production.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
US Festival 1982 New Wave Day
this entity surface form:
US Festival 1982 Country Day