The Idle Race

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The Idle Race was a late-1960s British psychedelic pop/rock band best known as an early vehicle for songwriter and musician Jeff Lynne before his success with Electric Light Orchestra.

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The Idle Race canonical 1

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf musical group
psychedelic pop band
rock band
activePeriodEnd 1972
activePeriodStart 1966
album Idle Race NERFINISHED
The Birthday Party NERFINISHED
Time Is NERFINISHED
basedIn Birmingham NERFINISHED
England NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
formedIn Birmingham NERFINISHED
genre pop rock
psychedelic pop
psychedelic rock
rock
hasMemberRole Dave Pritchard – guitarist NERFINISHED
Greg Masters – bassist NERFINISHED
Jeff Lynne – guitarist NERFINISHED
Jeff Lynne – songwriter NERFINISHED
Jeff Lynne – vocalist NERFINISHED
Roger Spencer – drummer NERFINISHED
hasNotableFact known as an early vehicle for Jeff Lynne before his success with Electric Light Orchestra
hasPredecessor Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders NERFINISHED
hasStyleCharacteristic elaborate studio production
melodic pop songwriting
whimsical lyrics
influenced Electric Light Orchestra NERFINISHED
languageOfLyrics English
notableMember Dave Pritchard NERFINISHED
Greg Masters NERFINISHED
Jeff Lynne NERFINISHED
Roger Spencer NERFINISHED
Roy Wood NERFINISHED
notableWork Days of Broken Arrows NERFINISHED
Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree NERFINISHED
The Birthday Party NERFINISHED
The Skeleton and the Roundabout NERFINISHED
recordLabel Liberty Records NERFINISHED
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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: The Idle Race
Description of subject: The Idle Race was a late-1960s British psychedelic pop/rock band best known as an early vehicle for songwriter and musician Jeff Lynne before his success with Electric Light Orchestra.

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Jeff Lynne memberOf The Idle Race