808 State
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808 State is a pioneering British electronic music group from Manchester, best known for helping shape the acid house and early techno scenes in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1628460 — 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: 808 State Context triple: [ZTT Records, notableArtist, 808 State]
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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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Front Street
Front Street is one of Philadelphia’s oldest and most historically significant north–south thoroughfares, running along the city’s original waterfront and forming part of its foundational street grid.
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C.
Front Street
Front Street is a notable thoroughfare in Hamilton, Bermuda, known as the city’s main waterfront street lined with shops, restaurants, and colonial-era buildings.
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D.
Sakonnet band
The Sakonnet band was a local group of the Wampanoag people who inhabited the Sakonnet region of what is now southeastern Rhode Island.
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E.
St. Lunatics
St. Lunatics is a hip hop group from St. Louis, Missouri, best known for launching the career of rapper Nelly and for their early-2000s chart successes.
- 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: 808 State Target entity description: 808 State is a pioneering British electronic music group from Manchester, best known for helping shape the acid house and early techno scenes in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
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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B.
Front Street
Front Street is one of Philadelphia’s oldest and most historically significant north–south thoroughfares, running along the city’s original waterfront and forming part of its foundational street grid.
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C.
Front Street
Front Street is a notable thoroughfare in Hamilton, Bermuda, known as the city’s main waterfront street lined with shops, restaurants, and colonial-era buildings.
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D.
Sakonnet band
The Sakonnet band was a local group of the Wampanoag people who inhabited the Sakonnet region of what is now southeastern Rhode Island.
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E.
St. Lunatics
St. Lunatics is a hip hop group from St. Louis, Missouri, best known for launching the career of rapper Nelly and for their early-2000s chart successes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: 808 State Description of subject: 808 State is a pioneering British electronic music group from Manchester, best known for helping shape the acid house and early techno scenes in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
808state