Tougher Than Leather
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Tougher Than Leather is Run-D.M.C.’s 1988 hip hop album that followed their breakthrough success, blending harder-edged production with their signature rap-rock style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tougher Than Leather canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4447071 — 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: Tougher Than Leather Context triple: [Raising Hell, followedBy, Tougher Than Leather]
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A.
Tougher Than the Rest
"Tougher Than the Rest" is a Bruce Springsteen song, known as a gritty, mid-tempo ballad of resilience and devotion from his 1987 album "Tunnel of Love."
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B.
Rock in a Hard Place
Rock in a Hard Place is a 1982 hard rock album by Aerosmith, notable for being recorded during a turbulent period marked by key lineup changes and internal band tensions.
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C.
Harder Than The Rest
Harder Than The Rest is an album by the German reggae band Culture, showcasing their roots reggae style and socially conscious themes.
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D.
Shakedown Street
Shakedown Street is a 1978 studio album by the Grateful Dead that blends rock, disco, and funk influences and includes the fan-favorite title track.
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E.
Harder Than Ever
Harder Than Ever is a 2018 breakout mixtape by Atlanta rapper Lil Baby that helped establish him as a major figure in modern trap music.
- 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: Tougher Than Leather Target entity description: Tougher Than Leather is Run-D.M.C.’s 1988 hip hop album that followed their breakthrough success, blending harder-edged production with their signature rap-rock style.
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A.
Tougher Than the Rest
"Tougher Than the Rest" is a Bruce Springsteen song, known as a gritty, mid-tempo ballad of resilience and devotion from his 1987 album "Tunnel of Love."
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B.
Rock in a Hard Place
Rock in a Hard Place is a 1982 hard rock album by Aerosmith, notable for being recorded during a turbulent period marked by key lineup changes and internal band tensions.
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C.
Harder Than The Rest
Harder Than The Rest is an album by the German reggae band Culture, showcasing their roots reggae style and socially conscious themes.
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D.
Shakedown Street
Shakedown Street is a 1978 studio album by the Grateful Dead that blends rock, disco, and funk influences and includes the fan-favorite title track.
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E.
Harder Than Ever
Harder Than Ever is a 2018 breakout mixtape by Atlanta rapper Lil Baby that helped establish him as a major figure in modern trap music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hip hop album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Run-D.M.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| describedBySource | music critics as having a harder-edged sound ⓘ |
| followedBy | Back from Hell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Raising Hell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hip hop
ⓘ
rap rock ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOnGenre | golden age hip hop ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Beats to the Rhyme
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christmas in Hollis NERFINISHED ⓘ How’d Ya Do It Dee NERFINISHED ⓘ I’m Not Going Out Like That NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary, Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Elaine NERFINISHED ⓘ Original Lyrics ⓘ Papa Crazy NERFINISHED ⓘ Radio Station ⓘ Ragtime NERFINISHED ⓘ Run’s House NERFINISHED ⓘ Soul to Rock and Roll NERFINISHED ⓘ They Call Us Run-D.M.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Tougher Than Leather (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ What’s It All About NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 41:10 ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audio cassette
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compact disc ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Run-D.M.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Run-D.M.C. discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Run-D.M.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Rick Rubin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Run-D.M.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell Simmons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1988-05-17 ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
1987
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1988 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Profile Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| style |
aggressive production
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rap-rock fusion ⓘ |
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: Tougher Than Leather Description of subject: Tougher Than Leather is Run-D.M.C.’s 1988 hip hop album that followed their breakthrough success, blending harder-edged production with their signature rap-rock style.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.