Devils Haircut
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"Devils Haircut" is a hit alternative rock song by Beck, known for its sample-heavy production and distinctive, surreal lyrics.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Devils Haircut canonical | 8 |
| Devil’s Haircut (Beck music video) | 2 |
| Devils Haircut (remix by Aphex Twin) | 1 |
| Devils Haircut (remix by Mike Simpson) | 1 |
| Devils Haircut (remix by Noel Gallagher) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3930113 — 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: Devils Haircut Context triple: [Odelay, hasTrack, Devils Haircut]
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A.
Cut Your Hair
"Cut Your Hair" is an indie rock song by the American band Pavement, known for its catchy melody and satirical take on music industry image and commercialization.
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B.
Almost Cut My Hair
"Almost Cut My Hair" is a 1970 countercultural rock song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, known for its raw, improvised feel and themes of personal freedom and rebellion.
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C.
Devils Playground
Devils Playground is a remote, arid expanse of sand dunes and desert terrain located within California’s Mojave Desert.
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D.
Blow Dry
Blow Dry is a 2001 British comedy-drama film set around a national hairdressing competition, starring Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, and Rachel Griffiths.
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E.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
- 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: Devils Haircut Target entity description: "Devils Haircut" is a hit alternative rock song by Beck, known for its sample-heavy production and distinctive, surreal lyrics.
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A.
Cut Your Hair
"Cut Your Hair" is an indie rock song by the American band Pavement, known for its catchy melody and satirical take on music industry image and commercialization.
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B.
Almost Cut My Hair
"Almost Cut My Hair" is a 1970 countercultural rock song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, known for its raw, improvised feel and themes of personal freedom and rebellion.
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C.
Devils Playground
Devils Playground is a remote, arid expanse of sand dunes and desert terrain located within California’s Mojave Desert.
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D.
Blow Dry
Blow Dry is a 2001 British comedy-drama film set around a national hairdressing competition, starring Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, and Rachel Griffiths.
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E.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Odelay ⓘ |
| artist | Beck ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 22 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSAlternativeSongs | 23 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBySingle | The New Pollution ⓘ |
| followsOnAlbum | none ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
alternative rock music ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ samples ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | true ⓘ |
| hasRemix |
Devils Haircut
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Devils Haircut (remix by Aphex Twin)
Devils Haircut self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Devils Haircut (remix by Mike Simpson)
Devils Haircut self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Devils Haircut (remix by Noel Gallagher)
|
| hasStyle |
collage-like arrangement
ⓘ
sample-based production ⓘ |
| includedIn | Beck compilation setlists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Mark Romanek ⓘ |
| notableFor |
sample-heavy production
ⓘ
surreal lyrics ⓘ |
| partOf | Odelay ⓘ |
| performer | Beck ⓘ |
| precededBySingle |
Where It's At
ⓘ
surface form:
Where It’s At
|
| producer |
Beck
ⓘ
The Dust Brothers ⓘ
surface form:
Dust Brothers
|
| recordLabel |
DGC Records
ⓘ
Geffen Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1996-09-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| tempo | mid-tempo ⓘ |
| trackNumberOnAlbum | 1 ⓘ |
| usesSampling |
I Can Only Give You Everything
ⓘ
Out of Sight ⓘ Soul Drums ⓘ |
| writer |
Beck
ⓘ
John King ⓘ Michael Simpson ⓘ |
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: Devils Haircut Description of subject: "Devils Haircut" is a hit alternative rock song by Beck, known for its sample-heavy production and distinctive, surreal lyrics.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Devil’s Haircut (Beck music video)
this entity surface form:
Devil’s Haircut (Beck music video)
this entity surface form:
Devils Haircut (remix by Noel Gallagher)
this entity surface form:
Devils Haircut (remix by Aphex Twin)
this entity surface form:
Devils Haircut (remix by Mike Simpson)