The New Power Generation
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The New Power Generation was Prince’s longtime backing band, known for its tight, genre-blending sound that fused funk, rock, R&B, and pop throughout much of his career.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The New Power Generation canonical | 11 |
| Prince and The New Power Generation | 1 |
| Prince and the New Power Generation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010921 — 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: The New Power Generation Context triple: [Prince, associatedBand, The New Power Generation]
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New Youth
New Youth was an influential early 20th-century Chinese literary and intellectual magazine that championed modern ideas such as democracy, science, and vernacular language, helping to shape the New Culture Movement.
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B.
Soul Power
Soul Power is a track featured on Common's genre-blending hip-hop album "Electric Circus."
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C.
Freak Power
Freak Power was a 1990s British band that blended acid jazz, funk, and soul, best known for their hit single "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out."
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Soulquarians
Soulquarians were a loose collective of late-1990s and early-2000s neo-soul and hip-hop artists and producers, including figures like Questlove, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, and J Dilla, known for their experimental, soulful sound and influential work at Electric Lady Studios.
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E.
Idols of the Tribe
Idols of the Tribe are one of Francis Bacon’s categories of systematic human cognitive biases, arising from the very nature and shared limitations of the human mind.
- 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: The New Power Generation Target entity description: The New Power Generation was Prince’s longtime backing band, known for its tight, genre-blending sound that fused funk, rock, R&B, and pop throughout much of his career.
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A.
New Youth
New Youth was an influential early 20th-century Chinese literary and intellectual magazine that championed modern ideas such as democracy, science, and vernacular language, helping to shape the New Culture Movement.
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B.
Soul Power
Soul Power is a track featured on Common's genre-blending hip-hop album "Electric Circus."
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C.
Freak Power
Freak Power was a 1990s British band that blended acid jazz, funk, and soul, best known for their hit single "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out."
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D.
Soulquarians
Soulquarians were a loose collective of late-1990s and early-2000s neo-soul and hip-hop artists and producers, including figures like Questlove, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, and J Dilla, known for their experimental, soulful sound and influential work at Electric Lady Studios.
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E.
Idols of the Tribe
Idols of the Tribe are one of Francis Bacon’s categories of systematic human cognitive biases, arising from the very nature and shared limitations of the human mind.
- 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: The New Power Generation Description of subject: The New Power Generation was Prince’s longtime backing band, known for its tight, genre-blending sound that fused funk, rock, R&B, and pop throughout much of his career.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Prince and The New Power Generation
this entity surface form:
Prince and the New Power Generation