The Seeds
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The Seeds were a 1960s American rock band best known for their raw, garage-psych sound and their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Seeds canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5144400 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Seeds Context triple: [Acid Eaters, originalArtistOfCoveredSong, The Seeds]
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A.
The Surfaris
The Surfaris are an American surf rock band best known for their 1963 instrumental hit "Wipe Out," a defining track of the surf music genre.
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B.
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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C.
The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots were a popular American rock band of the 1960s and 1970s known for their folk-rock and pop-rock hits such as "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions."
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D.
The Shadows
The Shadows were a pioneering British instrumental rock group, best known as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their influential, twangy guitar sound that shaped early rock and roll.
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E.
The Merseybeats
The Merseybeats are a 1960s Liverpool beat group associated with the British Invasion era, known for their melodic pop-rock sound and ties to the Merseybeat scene.
- 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 Seeds Target entity description: The Seeds were a 1960s American rock band best known for their raw, garage-psych sound and their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard."
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A.
The Surfaris
The Surfaris are an American surf rock band best known for their 1963 instrumental hit "Wipe Out," a defining track of the surf music genre.
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B.
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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C.
The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots were a popular American rock band of the 1960s and 1970s known for their folk-rock and pop-rock hits such as "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions."
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D.
The Shadows
The Shadows were a pioneering British instrumental rock group, best known as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their influential, twangy guitar sound that shaped early rock and roll.
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E.
The Merseybeats
The Merseybeats are a 1960s Liverpool beat group associated with the British Invasion era, known for their melodic pop-rock sound and ties to the Merseybeat scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rock band ⓘ |
| activeEndYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| activeStartYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Love
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sky Saxon Blues Band NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bangles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chesterfield Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ The Electric Prunes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fuzztones NERFINISHED ⓘ The Music Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ The Strawberry Alarm Clock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| bassist | Harvey Sharpe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drummer | Rick Andridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInCity | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInState | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| frontman | Sky Saxon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
acid rock
ⓘ
garage rock ⓘ protopunk ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Alec Palao
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billy Corgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Daryl Hooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Boomer NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvey Sharpe NERFINISHED ⓘ Jan Savage NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Prentice NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ Justin Polimeni NERFINISHED ⓘ Karma Auger NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Bellgraph NERFINISHED ⓘ Merrell Fankhauser NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Kopf NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Andridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Sky Saxon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bangles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chesterfield Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cynics NERFINISHED ⓘ The Electric Prunes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fuzztones NERFINISHED ⓘ The Loons NERFINISHED ⓘ The Marshmallow Overcoat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Miracle Workers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pandoras NERFINISHED ⓘ The Strawberry Alarm Clock NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tell-Tale Hearts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
garage punk
ⓘ
psychedelic revival ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| keyboardist | Daryl Hooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| leadGuitarist | Jan Savage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCompilation |
Evil Hoodoo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Travel with Your Mind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLiveAlbum | Raw & Alive: The Seeds in Concert at Merlin's Music Box NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Thousand Shadows
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A Web of Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ Can't Seem to Make You Mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Future ⓘ Mr. Farmer ⓘ Pushin' Too Hard NERFINISHED ⓘ Raw & Alive: The Seeds in Concert at Merlin's Music Box NERFINISHED ⓘ The Seeds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakPopularityDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| recordLabel | GNP Crescendo Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reformationYear |
1989
ⓘ
2003 ⓘ |
| styleDescription | raw garage-psych sound ⓘ |
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 Seeds Description of subject: The Seeds were a 1960s American rock band best known for their raw, garage-psych sound and their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard."
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