Station to Station
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Station to Station is a 1976 album by David Bowie that bridges his soul-influenced "plastic soul" period and his later experimental Berlin era, featuring a darker, more avant-garde sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Station to Station canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363182 — 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: Station to Station Context triple: [David Bowie, notableWork, Station to Station]
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A.
Darkness on the Edge of Town
"Darkness on the Edge of Town" is a critically acclaimed 1978 rock album by Bruce Springsteen known for its gritty, blue-collar themes and emotionally intense songwriting.
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B.
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense is a landmark 1984 concert film featuring Talking Heads, celebrated for its innovative staging, dynamic performance style, and influential role in music cinema.
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C.
Steel Wheels
Steel Wheels is a late-1980s studio album by The Rolling Stones that marked the band’s commercial and critical resurgence and launched a major world tour.
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D.
Tattoo You
"Tattoo You" is a 1981 studio album by the Rolling Stones, best known for the hit single "Start Me Up" and often regarded as one of their last classic releases.
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E.
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is Bruce Springsteen’s second studio album, noted for its soulful, jazz-inflected rock sound and vivid urban storytelling.
- 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: Station to Station Target entity description: Station to Station is a 1976 album by David Bowie that bridges his soul-influenced "plastic soul" period and his later experimental Berlin era, featuring a darker, more avant-garde sound.
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A.
Darkness on the Edge of Town
"Darkness on the Edge of Town" is a critically acclaimed 1978 rock album by Bruce Springsteen known for its gritty, blue-collar themes and emotionally intense songwriting.
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B.
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense is a landmark 1984 concert film featuring Talking Heads, celebrated for its innovative staging, dynamic performance style, and influential role in music cinema.
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C.
Steel Wheels
Steel Wheels is a late-1980s studio album by The Rolling Stones that marked the band’s commercial and critical resurgence and launched a major world tour.
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D.
Tattoo You
"Tattoo You" is a 1981 studio album by the Rolling Stones, best known for the hit single "Start Me Up" and often regarded as one of their last classic releases.
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E.
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is Bruce Springsteen’s second studio album, noted for its soulful, jazz-inflected rock sound and vivid urban storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concept album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTour | Isolar – 1976 Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bridgesPeriod |
David Bowie's Berlin era
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David Bowie's soul-influenced era ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKAlbumsChart | 5 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboard200 | 3 ⓘ |
| containsNumberOfTracks | 6 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtFeatures | still from The Man Who Fell to Earth ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| engineer | Harry Maslin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | The Thin White Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Low NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
experimental rock ⓘ funk rock ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
avant-garde rock
ⓘ
plastic soul ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Krautrock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
funk ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadSingle | Golden Years NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 38:27 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darker lyrical tone
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fusion of funk, soul, and experimental rock ⓘ transition toward Berlin Trilogy sound ⓘ |
| openingTrack | Station to Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Young Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Maslin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recorded | 1975 ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | RCA Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1976-01-23 ⓘ |
| theme |
European cabaret influences
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emotional alienation ⓘ occult references ⓘ |
| track |
Golden Years
NERFINISHED
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Station to Station NERFINISHED ⓘ Stay NERFINISHED ⓘ TVC 15 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wild Is the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ Word on a Wing 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: Station to Station Description of subject: Station to Station is a 1976 album by David Bowie that bridges his soul-influenced "plastic soul" period and his later experimental Berlin era, featuring a darker, more avant-garde sound.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.