Spiderland
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Spiderland is a highly influential 1991 post-rock/math rock album by the American band Slint, renowned for its dark, intricate compositions and spoken-word vocals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spiderland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4246944 — 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: Spiderland Context triple: [Slint, notableWork, Spiderland]
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A.
Odelay
Odelay is a critically acclaimed 1996 album by American musician Beck that blends alternative rock, hip hop, and experimental sounds.
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B.
Make Believe
"Make Believe" is a romantic duet from the 1927 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II musical *Show Boat*, known as one of its most enduring and frequently performed songs.
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C.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs is a long-running humor and satire column in The New Yorker known for its witty, often absurd short pieces by various writers.
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D.
Reflektor
Reflektor is a 2013 double album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire that blends rock, dance, and art-pop influences and marked a stylistic shift in their sound.
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E.
Strangeland
Strangeland is a song by the American rock band Green Day from their early compilation album "Kerplunk."
- 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: Spiderland Target entity description: Spiderland is a highly influential 1991 post-rock/math rock album by the American band Slint, renowned for its dark, intricate compositions and spoken-word vocals.
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A.
Odelay
Odelay is a critically acclaimed 1996 album by American musician Beck that blends alternative rock, hip hop, and experimental sounds.
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B.
Make Believe
"Make Believe" is a romantic duet from the 1927 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II musical *Show Boat*, known as one of its most enduring and frequently performed songs.
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C.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs is a long-running humor and satire column in The New Yorker known for its witty, often absurd short pieces by various writers.
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D.
Reflektor
Reflektor is a 2013 double album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire that blends rock, dance, and art-pop influences and marked a stylistic shift in their sound.
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E.
Strangeland
Strangeland is a song by the American rock band Green Day from their early compilation album "Kerplunk."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Slint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | Louisville underground rock scene ⓘ |
| bassist | Todd Brashear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtDescription | black-and-white photograph of band members in water ⓘ |
| coverArtPhotographer | Will Oldham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | highly acclaimed ⓘ |
| drummer | Britt Walford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
indie rock
ⓘ
math rock ⓘ post-hardcore ⓘ post-rock ⓘ |
| guitarist |
Brian McMahan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Pajo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCultStatus | true ⓘ |
| hasDynamicShifts | true ⓘ |
| hasSpokenWordVocals | true ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
indie rock
ⓘ
math rock ⓘ post-rock ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 39:38 ⓘ |
| listedIn | various best albums of the 1990s lists ⓘ |
| lyricThemes |
anxiety
ⓘ
emotional turmoil ⓘ isolation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cult following
ⓘ
dark and intricate compositions ⓘ influence on post-rock ⓘ spoken-word style vocals ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 6 ⓘ |
| performer | Slint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWork | Tweez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Brian Paulson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Slint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recorded | 1990 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Touch and Go Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1991-03-27 ⓘ |
| track |
Breadcrumb Trail
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Don, Aman ⓘ For Dinner... ⓘ Good Morning, Captain NERFINISHED ⓘ Nosferatu Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Washer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Brian McMahan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Spiderland Description of subject: Spiderland is a highly influential 1991 post-rock/math rock album by the American band Slint, renowned for its dark, intricate compositions and spoken-word vocals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.