Signal to Noise (album)
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Signal to Noise is a jazz album by American drummer and composer Steve Reid, showcasing his exploratory, rhythm-driven approach to avant-garde and spiritual jazz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Signal to Noise (album) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4881243 — 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: Signal to Noise (album) Context triple: [Steve Reid, notableWork, Signal to Noise (album)]
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A.
Color of Noize
Color of Noize is a genre-blending jazz and soul album by bassist and composer Derrick Hodge that showcases his innovative approach to contemporary jazz fusion.
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B.
Sleep Through the Static
Sleep Through the Static is a mellow, acoustic-driven studio album by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson that blends laid-back surf rock with introspective, environmentally conscious themes.
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C.
Signals and Songs
"Signals and Songs" is an episode of the nature documentary series *The Life of Birds* that explores how birds communicate through calls, songs, and other signaling behaviors.
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D.
Bring the Noise
"Bring the Noise" is a pioneering 1987 hip hop track by Public Enemy known for its politically charged lyrics, dense production, and major influence on both rap and rap-rock.
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E.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs is a long-running humor and satire column in The New Yorker known for its witty, often absurd short pieces by various writers.
- 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: Signal to Noise (album) Target entity description: Signal to Noise is a jazz album by American drummer and composer Steve Reid, showcasing his exploratory, rhythm-driven approach to avant-garde and spiritual jazz.
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A.
Color of Noize
Color of Noize is a genre-blending jazz and soul album by bassist and composer Derrick Hodge that showcases his innovative approach to contemporary jazz fusion.
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B.
Sleep Through the Static
Sleep Through the Static is a mellow, acoustic-driven studio album by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson that blends laid-back surf rock with introspective, environmentally conscious themes.
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C.
Signals and Songs
"Signals and Songs" is an episode of the nature documentary series *The Life of Birds* that explores how birds communicate through calls, songs, and other signaling behaviors.
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D.
Bring the Noise
"Bring the Noise" is a pioneering 1987 hip hop track by Public Enemy known for its politically charged lyrics, dense production, and major influence on both rap and rap-rock.
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E.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs is a long-running humor and satire column in The New Yorker known for its witty, often absurd short pieces by various writers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
album
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music recording ⓘ |
| artist | Steve Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Steve Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresMusicalElement |
complex rhythms
ⓘ
free-form improvisation ⓘ spiritual themes ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde jazz
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ spiritual jazz ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | contemporary spiritual jazz drumming ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
ensemble-focused drumming
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extended improvisation ⓘ polyrhythmic structures ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
experimental
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exploratory ⓘ improvisational ⓘ rhythm-driven ⓘ |
| hasType | studio album ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
avant-garde jazz tradition
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spiritual jazz movement ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| mainInstrument | drums ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of avant-garde and spiritual jazz
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exploratory rhythm-driven approach ⓘ |
| partOf | Steve Reid discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Steve Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Steve Reid 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: Signal to Noise (album) Description of subject: Signal to Noise is a jazz album by American drummer and composer Steve Reid, showcasing his exploratory, rhythm-driven approach to avant-garde and spiritual jazz.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.