The Guess Who
E442048
The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band best known for 1960s and 1970s hits like "American Woman" and "These Eyes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Guess Who canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4454501 — 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: The Guess Who Context triple: [Hey Joe, hasNotableCoverArtist, The Guess Who]
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A.
Little River Band
Little River Band is an Australian rock group formed in the mid-1970s, best known for its soft rock and adult contemporary hits that achieved significant international success.
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B.
The Who
The Who are an influential English rock band formed in the 1960s, renowned for their energetic performances, pioneering use of rock opera, and classic songs like "My Generation" and "Baba O'Riley."
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C.
The Hollies
The Hollies are an English pop/rock band formed in the early 1960s, best known for their distinctive vocal harmonies and hits like "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress."
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D.
Ringo's All Starr Band
Ringo's All Starr Band is a touring supergroup formed by former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, featuring a rotating lineup of famous rock musicians performing both his songs and their own hits.
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E.
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer best known for hits like "Summer of '69" and "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You."
- 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: The Guess Who Target entity description: The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band best known for 1960s and 1970s hits like "American Woman" and "These Eyes."
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A.
Little River Band
Little River Band is an Australian rock group formed in the mid-1970s, best known for its soft rock and adult contemporary hits that achieved significant international success.
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B.
The Who
The Who are an influential English rock band formed in the 1960s, renowned for their energetic performances, pioneering use of rock opera, and classic songs like "My Generation" and "Baba O'Riley."
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C.
The Hollies
The Hollies are an English pop/rock band formed in the early 1960s, best known for their distinctive vocal harmonies and hits like "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress."
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D.
Ringo's All Starr Band
Ringo's All Starr Band is a touring supergroup formed by former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, featuring a rotating lineup of famous rock musicians performing both his songs and their own hits.
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E.
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer best known for hits like "Summer of '69" and "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (128)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian rock band
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musical group ⓘ rock band ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
NERFINISHED
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Brave Belt NERFINISHED ⓘ Burton Cummings (solo) NERFINISHED ⓘ Chad Allan & The Expressions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| formerName |
Chad Allan and the Expressions
NERFINISHED
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Chad Allan and the Reflections NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
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garage rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | Canadian rock music ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Bill Wallace
NERFINISHED
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Bob Ashley NERFINISHED ⓘ Bob Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ Bruce Decker NERFINISHED ⓘ Burton Cummings NERFINISHED ⓘ Carl Dixon NERFINISHED ⓘ Chad Allan NERFINISHED ⓘ David Inglis NERFINISHED ⓘ Derek Sharp NERFINISHED ⓘ Domenic Troiano NERFINISHED ⓘ Donnie McDougall NERFINISHED ⓘ Garry Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Greg Leskiw NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Kale NERFINISHED ⓘ Ken Koblun NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurt Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurie MacKenzie NERFINISHED ⓘ Leonard Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Cavener NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Devin NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Staertow NERFINISHED ⓘ Randy Bachman NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Hatty NERFINISHED ⓘ Troy Luccketta NERFINISHED ⓘ Vance Masters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1965 ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation |
Canada
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Manitoba NERFINISHED ⓘ Winnipeg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | American Woman reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
#10
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Artificial Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ Canned Wheat NERFINISHED ⓘ Flavours NERFINISHED ⓘ Guess Who's Back NERFINISHED ⓘ Liberty NERFINISHED ⓘ Plein D'Amour NERFINISHED ⓘ Power in the Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Road Food NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockin' NERFINISHED ⓘ So Long, Bannatyne NERFINISHED ⓘ The Future IS What It Used To Be NERFINISHED ⓘ Wheatfield Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
Albert Flasher
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American Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ Broken NERFINISHED ⓘ Bus Rider NERFINISHED ⓘ Clap for the Wolfman NERFINISHED ⓘ Clock on the Wall NERFINISHED ⓘ Dancin' Fool NERFINISHED ⓘ Follow Your Daughter Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Glamour Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Hand Me Down World NERFINISHED ⓘ Hang On to Your Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Heartbroken Bopper NERFINISHED ⓘ His Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ Laughing NERFINISHED ⓘ No Sugar Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ No Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Of a Dropping Pin NERFINISHED ⓘ Orly NERFINISHED ⓘ Rain Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ Shakin' All Over NERFINISHED ⓘ Share the Land NERFINISHED ⓘ Sour Suite NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ These Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ This Time Long Ago NERFINISHED ⓘ Undun NERFINISHED ⓘ When Friends Fall Out NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Albert Flasher
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American Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ Broken NERFINISHED ⓘ Bus Rider ⓘ Clap for the Wolfman NERFINISHED ⓘ Clock on the Wall NERFINISHED ⓘ Dancin' Fool NERFINISHED ⓘ Follow Your Daughter Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Glamour Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Hand Me Down World NERFINISHED ⓘ Hang On to Your Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Heartbroken Bopper NERFINISHED ⓘ His Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ Laughing NERFINISHED ⓘ Laughing / Undun NERFINISHED ⓘ No Sugar Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ No Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Of a Dropping Pin NERFINISHED ⓘ Orly NERFINISHED ⓘ Rain Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ Shakin' All Over NERFINISHED ⓘ Share the Land NERFINISHED ⓘ Sour Suite NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ These Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ This Time Long Ago NERFINISHED ⓘ Undun NERFINISHED ⓘ When Friends Fall Out NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Nimbus 9 Records
NERFINISHED
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Quality Records NERFINISHED ⓘ RCA Records ⓘ Scepter Records NERFINISHED ⓘ True North Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Guess Who Description of subject: The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band best known for 1960s and 1970s hits like "American Woman" and "These Eyes."
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.