L.A. Express
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L.A. Express was a prominent 1970s jazz-fusion band best known for serving as Joni Mitchell’s touring and recording ensemble during her mid-’70s electric period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| L.A. Express canonical | 5 |
| Tom Scott and the L.A. Express | 2 |
| L.A. Express (self-titled album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010705 — 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: L.A. Express Context triple: [Miles of Aisles, recordedWithBackingBand, L.A. Express]
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A.
Los Angeles Express
Los Angeles Express was a short-lived professional American football team that competed in the United States Football League (USFL) during the mid-1980s.
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B.
D Sixth Avenue Express
The D Sixth Avenue Express is a New York City Subway service that runs primarily along the IND Sixth Avenue Line, providing express transit through Manhattan and connecting to the Bronx and Brooklyn.
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C.
Lexington Avenue Express (2)
The Lexington Avenue Express (2) is a New York City Subway service that runs on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line in Manhattan and Brooklyn, providing rapid transit between the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.
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D.
Lexington Avenue Express (5)
The Lexington Avenue Express (5) is a New York City Subway service that runs as a key north–south express route through Manhattan and the Bronx, extending into Brooklyn.
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E.
Joy Ride
"Joy Ride" is a track from Mariah Carey's acclaimed 2005 album *The Emancipation of Mimi*, showcasing her signature vocal style in a smooth, R&B-influenced ballad.
- 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: L.A. Express Target entity description: L.A. Express was a prominent 1970s jazz-fusion band best known for serving as Joni Mitchell’s touring and recording ensemble during her mid-’70s electric period.
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A.
Los Angeles Express
Los Angeles Express was a short-lived professional American football team that competed in the United States Football League (USFL) during the mid-1980s.
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B.
D Sixth Avenue Express
The D Sixth Avenue Express is a New York City Subway service that runs primarily along the IND Sixth Avenue Line, providing express transit through Manhattan and connecting to the Bronx and Brooklyn.
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C.
Lexington Avenue Express (2)
The Lexington Avenue Express (2) is a New York City Subway service that runs on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line in Manhattan and Brooklyn, providing rapid transit between the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.
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D.
Lexington Avenue Express (5)
The Lexington Avenue Express (5) is a New York City Subway service that runs as a key north–south express route through Manhattan and the Bronx, extending into Brooklyn.
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E.
Joy Ride
"Joy Ride" is a track from Mariah Carey's acclaimed 2005 album *The Emancipation of Mimi*, showcasing her signature vocal style in a smooth, R&B-influenced ballad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: L.A. Express Description of subject: L.A. Express was a prominent 1970s jazz-fusion band best known for serving as Joni Mitchell’s touring and recording ensemble during her mid-’70s electric period.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tom Scott and the L.A. Express
this entity surface form:
L.A. Express (self-titled album)