Sublime
E422564
Sublime was an influential American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, known for blending punk, reggae, ska, and hip-hop into hits like "What I Got" and "Santeria."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sublime canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4222356 — 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: Sublime Context triple: [No Doubt, associatedAct, Sublime]
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A.
Rhapsody
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B.
Touchstone
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C.
The Muse
The Muse is a 1999 comedy film written, directed by, and starring Albert Brooks as a struggling screenwriter who seeks inspiration from a modern-day muse played by Sharon Stone.
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D.
Eminado
Eminado is a popular Afrobeat song by Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage, known for its catchy melody and romantic lyrics.
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E.
Sovereign
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- 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: Sublime Target entity description: Sublime was an influential American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, known for blending punk, reggae, ska, and hip-hop into hits like "What I Got" and "Santeria."
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A.
Rhapsody
Rhapsody was Apple’s early post-NeXT operating system project that combined NeXTSTEP’s advanced technologies with a Mac OS–compatible environment, serving as a key transitional step toward what became Mac OS X.
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B.
Touchstone
Touchstone is a publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of commercial fiction and nonfiction titles.
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C.
The Muse
The Muse is a 1999 comedy film written, directed by, and starring Albert Brooks as a struggling screenwriter who seeks inspiration from a modern-day muse played by Sharon Stone.
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D.
Eminado
Eminado is a popular Afrobeat song by Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage, known for its catchy melody and romantic lyrics.
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E.
Sovereign
The Sovereign is the reigning monarch who serves as the ultimate authority and head of state within a monarchy, holding supreme ceremonial and constitutional power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American rock band
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ska punk band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1996 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1988 ⓘ |
| album |
40oz. to Freedom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robbin' the Hood NERFINISHED ⓘ Sublime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Long Beach Dub Allstars
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sublime with Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | 40oz. to Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| disbandedAfterEvent | death of Bradley Nowell ⓘ |
| frontmanCauseOfDeath | heroin overdose ⓘ |
| frontmanDeathYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
dub ⓘ hip hop ⓘ punk rock ⓘ reggae rock ⓘ ska ⓘ ska punk ⓘ third wave ska ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
reggae rock
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ska punk ⓘ |
| knownFor | fusion of punk, reggae, ska, and hip hop ⓘ |
| locationFormed | Long Beach, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Bradley Nowell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bud Gaugh NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Badfish
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Date Rape NERFINISHED ⓘ Doin' Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Santeria NERFINISHED ⓘ What I Got NERFINISHED ⓘ Wrong Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originScene | Southern California punk scene ⓘ |
| posthumousSuccess | yes ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
MCA Records
ⓘ
Skunk Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleOfBradleyNowell |
guitarist
ⓘ
lead vocalist ⓘ |
| roleOfBudGaugh | drummer ⓘ |
| roleOfEricWilson | bassist ⓘ |
| secondAlbum | Robbin' the Hood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondAlbumReleaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| selfTitledAlbum | Sublime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selfTitledAlbumReleaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| stateFormed | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studioAlbumCount | 3 ⓘ |
| yearFormed | 1988 ⓘ |
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: Sublime Description of subject: Sublime was an influential American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, known for blending punk, reggae, ska, and hip-hop into hits like "What I Got" and "Santeria."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.