Monkey Wrench
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"Monkey Wrench" is a high-energy alternative rock song by Foo Fighters, known for its explosive vocals, driving guitars, and status as one of the band's signature hits from the late 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Monkey Wrench canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4726112 — 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: Monkey Wrench Context triple: [Foo Fighters, notableWork, Monkey Wrench]
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A.
Brass Monkey
"Brass Monkey" is a popular party-themed hip hop track by the Beastie Boys from their debut album *Licensed to Ill*, known for its catchy hook and references to a cocktail of the same name.
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B.
Shock the Monkey
"Shock the Monkey" is a 1982 art rock single by English musician Peter Gabriel, known for its innovative production, cryptic lyrics, and influential early MTV-era music video.
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C.
The Stick
The Stick is the longtime nickname of Candlestick Park, the former outdoor sports stadium in San Francisco that famously hosted the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
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D.
Shenanigans
Shenanigans is a 2002 compilation album by American punk rock band Green Day, featuring B-sides, rarities, and previously unreleased tracks.
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E.
Winged Monkeys
Winged Monkeys are magical, flying primates from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe, best known for serving whoever controls the Golden Cap and for their memorable appearance in the 1939 film adaptation.
- 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: Monkey Wrench Target entity description: "Monkey Wrench" is a high-energy alternative rock song by Foo Fighters, known for its explosive vocals, driving guitars, and status as one of the band's signature hits from the late 1990s.
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A.
Brass Monkey
"Brass Monkey" is a popular party-themed hip hop track by the Beastie Boys from their debut album *Licensed to Ill*, known for its catchy hook and references to a cocktail of the same name.
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B.
Shock the Monkey
"Shock the Monkey" is a 1982 art rock single by English musician Peter Gabriel, known for its innovative production, cryptic lyrics, and influential early MTV-era music video.
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C.
The Stick
The Stick is the longtime nickname of Candlestick Park, the former outdoor sports stadium in San Francisco that famously hosted the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
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D.
Shenanigans
Shenanigans is a 2002 compilation album by American punk rock band Green Day, featuring B-sides, rarities, and previously unreleased tracks.
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E.
Winged Monkeys
Winged Monkeys are magical, flying primates from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe, best known for serving whoever controls the Golden Cap and for their memorable appearance in the 1939 film adaptation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music video
ⓘ
single ⓘ song ⓘ |
| album | The Colour and the Shape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Foo Fighters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 12 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSAlternativeSongs | 9 ⓘ |
| composer | Dave Grohl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Dave Grohl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredOn | Foo Fighters greatest hits setlists ⓘ |
| followedBy | Everlong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
7-inch single
ⓘ
CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
post-grunge ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
driving guitars
ⓘ
explosive vocals ⓘ high-energy ⓘ |
| hasLiveStapleStatusFor | Foo Fighters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Monkey Wrench music video ⓘ |
| hasTempo | fast ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ |
| isInLanguage | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadSingleFrom | The Colour and the Shape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 3:51 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Dave Grohl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | relationship breakup ⓘ |
| partOf | The Colour and the Shape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Foo Fighters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Big Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Gil Norton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1996 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
ⓘ
Roswell Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1997-04-28 ⓘ |
| releaseType | lead single ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Foo Fighters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trackNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | screamed vocals ⓘ |
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: Monkey Wrench Description of subject: "Monkey Wrench" is a high-energy alternative rock song by Foo Fighters, known for its explosive vocals, driving guitars, and status as one of the band's signature hits from the late 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.