Bone Machine
E389014
"Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bone Machine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3800086 — 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: Bone Machine Context triple: [Surfer Rosa, hasPart, Bone Machine]
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A.
Machina
Machina is a local government area and town in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, near the border with Niger.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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C.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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D.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
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E.
Gorgophone
Gorgophone is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda and noted as one of the first women to remarry after being widowed.
- 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: Bone Machine Target entity description: "Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
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A.
Machina
Machina is a local government area and town in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, near the border with Niger.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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C.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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D.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
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E.
Gorgophone
Gorgophone is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda and noted as one of the first women to remarry after being widowed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Surfer Rosa ⓘ |
| artist | Pixies ⓘ |
| composer | Black Francis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ noise rock ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
noted for surreal lyrics
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praised for raw sound ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
1990s indie rock
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alternative rock of the late 1980s ⓘ |
| hasLyricStyle |
fragmented
ⓘ
surreal ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme |
disjointed narrative
ⓘ
sexual imagery ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasSoundCharacteristic |
distorted guitar
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loud-quiet-loud dynamics ⓘ prominent drums ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | raw ⓘ |
| includedIn | Surfer Rosa original track listing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Black Francis ⓘ |
| openingTrackOf | Surfer Rosa ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pixies discography
ⓘ
Surfer Rosa opening sequence ⓘ |
| performedBy |
Black Francis
ⓘ
David Lovering ⓘ Joey Santiago ⓘ Kim Deal ⓘ |
| performer | Pixies ⓘ |
| producer | Steve Albini ⓘ |
| recordedFor |
4AD
ⓘ
Rough Trade Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| title | Bone Machine ⓘ |
| trackNumber | 1 ⓘ |
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: Bone Machine Description of subject: "Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.