Prince and The Revolution
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Prince and The Revolution was the American funk-rock band fronted by Prince that gained worldwide fame in the 1980s with landmark albums like "Purple Rain."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Prince and The Revolution canonical | 11 |
| Prince and the Revolution | 1 |
| worked with Prince and The Revolution in the 1980s | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3121480 — 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: Prince and The Revolution Context triple: [Wendy Melvoin, associatedAct, Prince and The Revolution]
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Cream
Cream was a pioneering British rock supergroup of the 1960s, featuring Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker, known for their influential blend of blues rock, psychedelic rock, and extended improvisational jams.
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B.
Queen's
Queen's is a prestigious public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, known for its strong academic programs and historic campus.
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C.
Hole
Hole is an American alternative rock band formed in 1989 by singer-guitarist Courtney Love, known for its raw, aggressive sound and influential role in the 1990s grunge and punk scenes.
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D.
Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys are an American vocal harmony boy band that rose to global fame in the late 1990s with pop hits like "I Want It That Way" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)."
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E.
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo known for their sophisticated electronic sound and witty, literate lyrics, featuring Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
- 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: Prince and The Revolution Target entity description: Prince and The Revolution was the American funk-rock band fronted by Prince that gained worldwide fame in the 1980s with landmark albums like "Purple Rain."
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A.
Cream
Cream was a pioneering British rock supergroup of the 1960s, featuring Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker, known for their influential blend of blues rock, psychedelic rock, and extended improvisational jams.
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B.
Queen's
Queen's is a prestigious public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, known for its strong academic programs and historic campus.
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C.
Hole
Hole is an American alternative rock band formed in 1989 by singer-guitarist Courtney Love, known for its raw, aggressive sound and influential role in the 1990s grunge and punk scenes.
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D.
Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys are an American vocal harmony boy band that rose to global fame in the late 1990s with pop hits like "I Want It That Way" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)."
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E.
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo known for their sophisticated electronic sound and witty, literate lyrics, featuring Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Prince and The Revolution Description of subject: Prince and The Revolution was the American funk-rock band fronted by Prince that gained worldwide fame in the 1980s with landmark albums like "Purple Rain."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Minneapolis sound
Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for Purple Rain
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Prince and the Revolution
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worked with Prince and The Revolution in the 1980s