Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
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Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) is a critically acclaimed 1980 art rock album by David Bowie that bridges his experimental 1970s work with a more accessible, post-punk-influenced sound.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Bowie – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | 1 |
| Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363186 — 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: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) Context triple: [David Bowie, notableWork, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)]
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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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B.
Their Satanic Majesties Request
"Their Satanic Majesties Request" is a 1967 psychedelic rock album by The Rolling Stones, noted for its experimental sound and often compared to The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
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C.
Antichrist Superstar
Antichrist Superstar is a 1996 industrial metal concept album by Marilyn Manson that explores themes of nihilism, anti-religion, and personal transformation.
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D.
Surfer Rosa
Surfer Rosa is a critically acclaimed 1988 debut full-length album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, known for its raw sound, dynamic loud-quiet-loud style, and major influence on 1990s rock music.
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E.
Mother of Monsters
Mother of Monsters is the mythological epithet of Echidna, a monstrous figure in Greek mythology famed as the progenitor of many of the most fearsome creatures in legend.
- 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: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) Target entity description: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) is a critically acclaimed 1980 art rock album by David Bowie that bridges his experimental 1970s work with a more accessible, post-punk-influenced sound.
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A.
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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B.
Their Satanic Majesties Request
"Their Satanic Majesties Request" is a 1967 psychedelic rock album by The Rolling Stones, noted for its experimental sound and often compared to The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
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C.
Antichrist Superstar
Antichrist Superstar is a 1996 industrial metal concept album by Marilyn Manson that explores themes of nihilism, anti-religion, and personal transformation.
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D.
Surfer Rosa
Surfer Rosa is a critically acclaimed 1988 debut full-length album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, known for its raw sound, dynamic loud-quiet-loud style, and major influence on 1990s rock music.
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E.
Mother of Monsters
Mother of Monsters is the mythological epithet of Echidna, a monstrous figure in Greek mythology famed as the progenitor of many of the most fearsome creatures in legend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
David Bowie album
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art rock album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| artist | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUK | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUS | 12 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtBy | Edward Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
commercially successful
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critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| featuresBackingVocalist |
Chris Porter
NERFINISHED
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Lynn Maitland NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Visconti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresInstrumentalist |
Carlos Alomar
NERFINISHED
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Dennis Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ George Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Fripp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresMusician | Pete Townshend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Let’s Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows |
Lodger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“Berlin Trilogy” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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experimental rock ⓘ new wave ⓘ post-punk ⓘ |
| hasPart |
“Ashes to Ashes”
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“Because You’re Young” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Fashion” NERFINISHED ⓘ “It’s No Game (No. 1)” NERFINISHED ⓘ “It’s No Game (No. 2)” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Kingdom Come” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Scream Like a Baby” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Teenage Wildlife” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Up the Hill Backwards” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSingle |
“Ashes to Ashes”
NERFINISHED
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“Fashion” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Up the Hill Backwards” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Lodger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
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Tony Visconti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1980-09-12 ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1980 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | RCA Records ⓘ |
| thematicConnection | bridges Bowie’s 1970s experimental work with more accessible post-punk sound ⓘ |
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: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) Description of subject: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) is a critically acclaimed 1980 art rock album by David Bowie that bridges his experimental 1970s work with a more accessible, post-punk-influenced sound.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Power Station (recording studio)
this entity surface form:
David Bowie – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)