The Mar-Keys
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The Mar-Keys were an influential American R&B and soul instrumental group from Memphis, best known for helping define the classic Stax Records sound in the 1960s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Mar-Keys canonical | 7 |
| The Mar-Keys horn section | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2971334 — 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 Mar-Keys Context triple: [Stax Records, houseBand, The Mar-Keys]
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The Chi-Lites
The Chi-Lites are an American R&B and soul vocal group from Chicago, best known for their smooth harmonies and 1970s hits like "Have You Seen Her" and "Oh Girl."
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The Four Tops
The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet renowned for their string of soulful hit singles in the 1960s and 1970s, including classics like "Reach Out I'll Be There" and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)."
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The Coasters
The Coasters were a pioneering American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group best known for their humorous, narrative-driven hits like "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown" in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
The Clovers
The Clovers were a popular American R&B and doo-wop vocal group of the 1950s known for hits like "Love Potion No. 9" and their influential harmonies.
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E.
The Drifters
The Drifters are an American doo-wop and R&B vocal group famed for classic hits like "Under the Boardwalk" and "Save the Last Dance for Me."
- 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 Mar-Keys Target entity description: The Mar-Keys were an influential American R&B and soul instrumental group from Memphis, best known for helping define the classic Stax Records sound in the 1960s.
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A.
The Chi-Lites
The Chi-Lites are an American R&B and soul vocal group from Chicago, best known for their smooth harmonies and 1970s hits like "Have You Seen Her" and "Oh Girl."
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B.
The Four Tops
The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet renowned for their string of soulful hit singles in the 1960s and 1970s, including classics like "Reach Out I'll Be There" and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)."
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C.
The Coasters
The Coasters were a pioneering American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group best known for their humorous, narrative-driven hits like "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown" in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
The Clovers
The Clovers were a popular American R&B and doo-wop vocal group of the 1950s known for hits like "Love Potion No. 9" and their influential harmonies.
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E.
The Drifters
The Drifters are an American doo-wop and R&B vocal group famed for classic hits like "Under the Boardwalk" and "Save the Last Dance for Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Input
Subject: The Mar-Keys Description of subject: The Mar-Keys were an influential American R&B and soul instrumental group from Memphis, best known for helping define the classic Stax Records sound in the 1960s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Mar-Keys horn section