The Kinks

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The Kinks were an influential English rock band formed in the early 1960s, known for their distinctive guitar sound and sharp, observational songwriting that helped shape the direction of rock and pop music.

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Label Occurrences
The Kinks canonical 17

Statements (93)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English rock band
musical group
rock band
activeYearsEnd 1996
activeYearsStart 1963
awardReceived Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
UK Music Hall of Fame induction
countryOfOrigin England
United Kingdom
dateOfFormation 1963
dateOfRockAndRollHallOfFameInduction 1990
dateOfUKMusicHallOfFameInduction 2005
dissolved 1996
foundedBy Dave Davies
Mick Avory
Pete Quaife
Ray Davies
genre British Invasion
art rock
baroque pop
classic rock
garage rock
hard rock
music hall rock
pop rock
power pop
proto-punk
rock
hasInfluenced Britpop
alternative rock
heavy metal
power pop
punk rock
hasPart Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Everybody’s in Show-Biz
Face to Face
Give the People What They Want
Kinda Kinks
Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
Low Budget
Misfits
Muswell Hillbillies
Phobia
Preservation Act 1
Preservation Act 2
Schoolboys in Disgrace
Sleepwalker
Soap Opera
Something Else by The Kinks
State of Confusion
The Kink Kontroversy
The Kinks (album)
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Think Visual
UK Jive
Word of Mouth
inception 1963
locationOfFormation England
London, England
surface form: London

United Kingdom
member Bob Henrit
Dave Davies
Ian Gibbons
Jim Rodford
John Dalton
John Gosling
Mick Avory
Pete Quaife
Ray Davies
movement British Invasion
notableCharacteristic distorted power-chord guitar sound
observational songwriting
satirical lyrics about British life
notableEvent ban from touring the United States in the mid-1960s
notableMember Dave Davies
Ray Davies
notableWork A Well Respected Man
All Day and All of the Night
Come Dancing
Days
Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Lola
Sunny Afternoon
Tired of Waiting for You
Victoria
Waterloo Sunset
You Really Got Me
recordLabel Arista Records
Columbia Records
MCA Records
Pye Records
RCA Records
Reprise Records

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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.
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Subject: The Kinks
Description of subject: The Kinks were an influential English rock band formed in the early 1960s, known for their distinctive guitar sound and sharp, observational songwriting that helped shape the direction of rock and pop music.

Referenced by (17)

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British Invasion notableBand The Kinks
Reprise Records catalogIncludes The Kinks
The Cavern Club hostedBand The Kinks
Fillmore West hostedArtist The Kinks
Britpop influencedBy The Kinks
The Jam influencedBy The Kinks
Reprise hasArtist The Kinks
subject surface form: Reprise Records
Long Tall Sally coveredBy The Kinks
Ray Davies memberOf The Kinks
Ray Davies associatedAct The Kinks
Mo Ostin workedWith The Kinks
Sanctuary Records associatedAct The Kinks
Blur influencedBy The Kinks