Surfing with the Alien
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Surfing with the Alien is a landmark 1987 instrumental rock album by guitarist Joe Satriani that helped popularize shred guitar and showcased his virtuosic playing and melodic style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surfing with the Alien canonical | 1 |
| Surfing with the Alien (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5161439 — 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: Surfing with the Alien Context triple: [Joe Satriani, notableWork, Surfing with the Alien]
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A.
Surfacing
Surfacing is a 1972 novel by Margaret Atwood that blends psychological mystery with feminist and environmental themes as it follows a woman’s search for her missing father in rural Quebec.
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B.
Surfacing
Surfacing is a 1997 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan that features some of her most commercially successful and critically acclaimed songs.
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C.
Dreams of Surf
"Dreams of Surf" is a track by the band Oceanic, likely featuring ocean-inspired, atmospheric sounds and surf-influenced vibes.
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D.
Sea of Fun
Sea of Fun is a family-friendly children’s area at SeaWorld Orlando featuring kid-focused rides, water play zones, and themed attractions.
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E.
Surf's Up!
Surf's Up! is a surfing-themed accommodation area within Disney's All-Star Sports Resort at Walt Disney World.
- 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: Surfing with the Alien Target entity description: Surfing with the Alien is a landmark 1987 instrumental rock album by guitarist Joe Satriani that helped popularize shred guitar and showcased his virtuosic playing and melodic style.
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A.
Surfacing
Surfacing is a 1972 novel by Margaret Atwood that blends psychological mystery with feminist and environmental themes as it follows a woman’s search for her missing father in rural Quebec.
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B.
Surfacing
Surfacing is a 1997 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan that features some of her most commercially successful and critically acclaimed songs.
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C.
Dreams of Surf
"Dreams of Surf" is a track by the band Oceanic, likely featuring ocean-inspired, atmospheric sounds and surf-influenced vibes.
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D.
Sea of Fun
Sea of Fun is a family-friendly children’s area at SeaWorld Orlando featuring kid-focused rides, water play zones, and themed attractions.
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E.
Surf's Up!
Surf's Up! is a surfing-themed accommodation area within Disney's All-Star Sports Resort at Walt Disney World.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
instrumental rock album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Joe Satriani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certification | RIAA Platinum ⓘ |
| chartPosition | Billboard 200 top 30 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtFeatures | Marvel Comics character Silver Surfer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed by rock and guitar magazines ⓘ |
| describedAs | landmark guitar album of the 1980s ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
instrumental rock ⓘ shred guitar ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
instrumental rock guitarists
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shred guitar genre ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Always with Me, Always with You
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Circles NERFINISHED ⓘ Crushing Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Echo NERFINISHED ⓘ Hill of the Skull NERFINISHED ⓘ Ice 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ Lords of Karma NERFINISHED ⓘ Midnight NERFINISHED ⓘ Satch Boogie NERFINISHED ⓘ Surfing with the Alien (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| mainInstrument | electric guitar ⓘ |
| nextWork | Dreaming #11 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
melodic instrumental compositions
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popularizing shred guitar in the late 1980s ⓘ showcasing Joe Satriani's virtuosic guitar technique ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 10 ⓘ |
| performer | Joe Satriani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWork | Not of This Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Joe Satriani
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Cuniberti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1987-10-15 ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
Alpha & Omega Recording
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Different Fur Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ Hyde Street Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Epic Records
ⓘ
Relativity Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseFormat |
cassette
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compact disc ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 37 minutes ⓘ |
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: Surfing with the Alien Description of subject: Surfing with the Alien is a landmark 1987 instrumental rock album by guitarist Joe Satriani that helped popularize shred guitar and showcased his virtuosic playing and melodic style.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Surfing with the Alien (album)