The Stranglers
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The Stranglers are an English rock band formed in the mid-1970s, known for their distinctive blend of punk, new wave, and dark, melodic songwriting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Stranglers canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4554252 — 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 Stranglers Context triple: [Walk On By, notableCoverVersionArtist, The Stranglers]
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A.
The Human League
The Human League is a pioneering British synth-pop band formed in the late 1970s, best known for their influential electronic sound and hits like "Don't You Want Me."
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B.
The Jam
The Jam were a seminal late-1970s and early-1980s English mod revival and punk-influenced rock band fronted by Paul Weller, known for their sharp social commentary and hits like "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice."
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C.
The Blockheads
The Blockheads is a satirical play by American writer and political commentator Mercy Otis Warren that criticizes British colonial authorities during the period leading up to the American Revolution.
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D.
Roxy Music
Roxy Music is an influential English art rock band formed in the early 1970s, known for their innovative blend of glam rock, avant-garde style, and sophisticated pop.
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E.
The Style Council
The Style Council was an English sophisti-pop and soul-influenced band formed in the early 1980s by Paul Weller after The Jam, known for its jazzy, politically conscious pop songs.
- 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 Stranglers Target entity description: The Stranglers are an English rock band formed in the mid-1970s, known for their distinctive blend of punk, new wave, and dark, melodic songwriting.
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A.
The Human League
The Human League is a pioneering British synth-pop band formed in the late 1970s, best known for their influential electronic sound and hits like "Don't You Want Me."
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B.
The Jam
The Jam were a seminal late-1970s and early-1980s English mod revival and punk-influenced rock band fronted by Paul Weller, known for their sharp social commentary and hits like "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice."
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C.
The Blockheads
The Blockheads is a satirical play by American writer and political commentator Mercy Otis Warren that criticizes British colonial authorities during the period leading up to the American Revolution.
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D.
Roxy Music
Roxy Music is an influential English art rock band formed in the early 1970s, known for their innovative blend of glam rock, avant-garde style, and sophisticated pop.
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E.
The Style Council
The Style Council was an English sophisti-pop and soul-influenced band formed in the early 1980s by Paul Weller after The Jam, known for its jazzy, politically conscious pop songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
ⓘ
rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ivors Inspiration Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MOJO Icon Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| formerMember |
Dave Greenfield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hugh Cornwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Jet Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
gothic rock ⓘ new wave ⓘ post-punk ⓘ pub rock ⓘ punk rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
British punk rock
ⓘ
post-punk music ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Baz Warne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Greenfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugh Cornwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Jacques Burnel NERFINISHED ⓘ Jet Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Macaulay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1974 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guildford NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
dark lyrical themes
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distinctive keyboard sound ⓘ prominent bass lines ⓘ |
| notableWork |
10
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Always the Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ Aural Sculpture NERFINISHED ⓘ Black and White NERFINISHED ⓘ Dark Matters NERFINISHED ⓘ Dreamtime NERFINISHED ⓘ Duchess NERFINISHED ⓘ Feline NERFINISHED ⓘ Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ La Folie NERFINISHED ⓘ Nice 'n' Sleazy NERFINISHED ⓘ No More Heroes NERFINISHED ⓘ No More Heroes (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ Norfolk Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Peaches NERFINISHED ⓘ Rattus Norvegicus NERFINISHED ⓘ Skin Deep NERFINISHED ⓘ Strange Little Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ Suite XVI NERFINISHED ⓘ The Raven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
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Epic Records ⓘ Liberty Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Music
United Artists Records 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: The Stranglers Description of subject: The Stranglers are an English rock band formed in the mid-1970s, known for their distinctive blend of punk, new wave, and dark, melodic songwriting.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.