Cheap Trick
E161726
Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for blending power pop and hard rock and for hits like "I Want You to Want Me" and "Surrender."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cheap Trick canonical | 5 |
| Cheap Trick (1977 album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1416509 — 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: Cheap Trick Context triple: [Epic Records, hasArtist, Cheap Trick]
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A.
Ratt
Ratt is an American glam metal band that rose to prominence in the 1980s with hits like "Round and Round" and became a key act in the Los Angeles hard rock scene.
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B.
Front Street West
Front Street West is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Toronto lined with offices, entertainment venues, and historic industrial buildings.
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C.
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Fabulous Thunderbirds are an American blues rock band from Texas known for their gritty, guitar-driven sound and hits like "Tuff Enuff."
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D.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
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E.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is a legendary American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for their blues-influenced hard rock sound and hits like "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion," and "Walk This Way."
- 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: Cheap Trick Target entity description: Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for blending power pop and hard rock and for hits like "I Want You to Want Me" and "Surrender."
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A.
Ratt
Ratt is an American glam metal band that rose to prominence in the 1980s with hits like "Round and Round" and became a key act in the Los Angeles hard rock scene.
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B.
Front Street West
Front Street West is a major east–west thoroughfare in downtown Toronto lined with offices, entertainment venues, and historic industrial buildings.
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C.
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Fabulous Thunderbirds are an American blues rock band from Texas known for their gritty, guitar-driven sound and hits like "Tuff Enuff."
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D.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
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E.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is a legendary American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for their blues-influenced hard rock sound and hits like "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion," and "Walk This Way."
- 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: Cheap Trick Description of subject: Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for blending power pop and hard rock and for hits like "I Want You to Want Me" and "Surrender."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cheap Trick (1977 album)