Tin Machine
E434421
Tin Machine was a late-1980s rock band fronted by David Bowie that embraced a raw, hard-edged sound as a deliberate break from his polished solo work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tin Machine canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363203 — 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: Tin Machine Context triple: [David Bowie, associatedAct, Tin Machine]
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A.
Red Machine
Red Machine is the legendary Soviet Union national ice hockey team renowned for its dominant, disciplined, and technically brilliant style of play during the Cold War era.
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B.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a 1975 studio album by Joni Mitchell that blends jazz, pop, and experimental elements in a series of lyrically complex, character-driven songs.
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C.
Machina
Machina is a local government area and town in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, near the border with Niger.
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D.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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E.
Bone Machine
"Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
- 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: Tin Machine Target entity description: Tin Machine was a late-1980s rock band fronted by David Bowie that embraced a raw, hard-edged sound as a deliberate break from his polished solo work.
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A.
Red Machine
Red Machine is the legendary Soviet Union national ice hockey team renowned for its dominant, disciplined, and technically brilliant style of play during the Cold War era.
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B.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a 1975 studio album by Joni Mitchell that blends jazz, pop, and experimental elements in a series of lyrically complex, character-driven songs.
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C.
Machina
Machina is a local government area and town in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, near the border with Niger.
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D.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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E.
Bone Machine
"Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
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rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reeves Gabrels NERFINISHED ⓘ Sales brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | mixed reviews ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Tin Machine (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAlbumReleaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| formedIn | 1988 ⓘ |
| frontedBy | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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art rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ noise rock ⓘ post-punk ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasMember |
David Bowie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hunt Sales NERFINISHED ⓘ Reeves Gabrels NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Sales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Pixies
NERFINISHED
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Sonic Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ post-punk music ⓘ |
| legacy | precursor to David Bowie's 1990s alternative rock work ⓘ |
| liveAlbum | Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| liveAlbumReleaseYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| lyricsTheme |
political issues
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social commentary ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
hard-edged guitar rock
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raw sound ⓘ |
| notablePerformance | SNL appearance 1991 ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Baby Universal
NERFINISHED
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Heaven's in Here NERFINISHED ⓘ One Shot NERFINISHED ⓘ Prisoner of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Under the God NERFINISHED ⓘ You Belong in Rock n' Roll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | break from David Bowie's 1980s pop sound ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
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Victory Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondAlbum | Tin Machine II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondAlbumReleaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| shortDescription | late-1980s rock band fronted by David Bowie ⓘ |
| tour |
It's My Life Tour
NERFINISHED
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Tin Machine Tour 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: Tin Machine Description of subject: Tin Machine was a late-1980s rock band fronted by David Bowie that embraced a raw, hard-edged sound as a deliberate break from his polished solo work.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.