A Trick of the Tail
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A Trick of the Tail is a 1976 progressive rock album by Genesis, notable as their first release after Peter Gabriel’s departure and for helping establish Phil Collins as the band’s lead vocalist.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Trick of the Tail canonical | 1 |
| Genesis – A Trick of the Tail | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5045209 — 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: A Trick of the Tail Context triple: [Genesis, notableWork, A Trick of the Tail]
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A.
Band on the Run
Band on the Run is a critically acclaimed 1973 rock album by Paul McCartney and Wings, known for its cohesive concept, multi-part title track, and status as one of McCartney’s most celebrated post-Beatles works.
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B.
Tattoo You
"Tattoo You" is a 1981 studio album by the Rolling Stones, best known for the hit single "Start Me Up" and often regarded as one of their last classic releases.
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C.
Steel Wheels
Steel Wheels is a late-1980s studio album by The Rolling Stones that marked the band’s commercial and critical resurgence and launched a major world tour.
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D.
Coming Through Slaughter
Coming Through Slaughter is a stylistically experimental novel by Michael Ondaatje that fictionalizes the life of early jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden in turn-of-the-century New Orleans.
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E.
The Heart of Gold
The Heart of Gold is the revolutionary starship in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," powered by the experimental Infinite Improbability Drive.
- 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: A Trick of the Tail Target entity description: A Trick of the Tail is a 1976 progressive rock album by Genesis, notable as their first release after Peter Gabriel’s departure and for helping establish Phil Collins as the band’s lead vocalist.
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A.
Band on the Run
Band on the Run is a critically acclaimed 1973 rock album by Paul McCartney and Wings, known for its cohesive concept, multi-part title track, and status as one of McCartney’s most celebrated post-Beatles works.
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B.
Tattoo You
"Tattoo You" is a 1981 studio album by the Rolling Stones, best known for the hit single "Start Me Up" and often regarded as one of their last classic releases.
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C.
Steel Wheels
Steel Wheels is a late-1980s studio album by The Rolling Stones that marked the band’s commercial and critical resurgence and launched a major world tour.
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D.
Coming Through Slaughter
Coming Through Slaughter is a stylistically experimental novel by Michael Ondaatje that fictionalizes the life of early jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden in turn-of-the-century New Orleans.
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E.
The Heart of Gold
The Heart of Gold is the revolutionary starship in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," powered by the experimental Infinite Improbability Drive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
progressive rock album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Genesis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassGuitar | Mike Rutherford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
Billboard 200 number 31
ⓘ
UK Albums Chart number 3 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtBy | Colin Elgie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coverArtDesigner | Hipgnosis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | generally positive reviews ⓘ |
| drums | Phil Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Wind & Wuthering NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | progressive rock ⓘ |
| guitar | Steve Hackett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | A Trick of the Tail (promotional film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
A Trick of the Tail (song)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dance on a Volcano NERFINISHED ⓘ Entangled NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Endos NERFINISHED ⓘ Mad Man Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ Ripples... NERFINISHED ⓘ Robbery, Assault and Battery ⓘ Squonk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyboards | Tony Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Phil Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 51:02 ⓘ |
| lyricsBy |
Mike Rutherford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Mike Rutherford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phil Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Hackett NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
first Genesis studio album after Peter Gabriel's departure
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first Genesis studio album with Phil Collins as lead vocalist ⓘ |
| partOf | Genesis discography ⓘ |
| performer | Genesis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
David Hentschel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Genesis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| recordedAt |
London
NERFINISHED
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Trident Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingEndDate | 1975-12 ⓘ |
| recordingStartDate | 1975-10 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atco Records
NERFINISHED
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Charisma Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1976-02-02 ⓘ |
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: A Trick of the Tail Description of subject: A Trick of the Tail is a 1976 progressive rock album by Genesis, notable as their first release after Peter Gabriel’s departure and for helping establish Phil Collins as the band’s lead vocalist.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Genesis – A Trick of the Tail