Alligator
E202107
Alligator is a critically acclaimed 2005 indie rock album by The National that helped establish the band’s distinctive dark, introspective sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alligator canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786124 — 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: Alligator Context triple: [The National, hasAlbum, Alligator]
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A.
American alligator
The American alligator is a large, semi-aquatic reptile native to the southeastern United States, known for inhabiting freshwater wetlands and playing a key role as an apex predator in its ecosystems.
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B.
American crocodile
The American crocodile is a large, primarily coastal crocodilian native to the Americas, known for inhabiting brackish and saltwater habitats such as mangrove swamps, estuaries, and coastal lagoons.
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C.
Nile crocodile
The Nile crocodile is a large and aggressive African crocodilian known for inhabiting rivers, lakes, and wetlands and being one of the continent’s most formidable predators.
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D.
Gator
Gator is the alligator-themed mascot representing San Francisco State University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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E.
Crocodylus
Crocodylus is a genus of large, semiaquatic reptiles commonly known as true crocodiles, found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
- 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: Alligator Target entity description: Alligator is a critically acclaimed 2005 indie rock album by The National that helped establish the band’s distinctive dark, introspective sound.
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A.
American alligator
The American alligator is a large, semi-aquatic reptile native to the southeastern United States, known for inhabiting freshwater wetlands and playing a key role as an apex predator in its ecosystems.
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B.
American crocodile
The American crocodile is a large, primarily coastal crocodilian native to the Americas, known for inhabiting brackish and saltwater habitats such as mangrove swamps, estuaries, and coastal lagoons.
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C.
Nile crocodile
The Nile crocodile is a large and aggressive African crocodilian known for inhabiting rivers, lakes, and wetlands and being one of the continent’s most formidable predators.
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D.
Gator
Gator is the alligator-themed mascot representing San Francisco State University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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E.
Crocodylus
Crocodylus is a genus of large, semiaquatic reptiles commonly known as true crocodiles, found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Alligator Description of subject: Alligator is a critically acclaimed 2005 indie rock album by The National that helped establish the band’s distinctive dark, introspective sound.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.