History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice)
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History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) is a 1973 live album by the Grateful Dead, curated by sound engineer Owsley “Bear” Stanley and notable for its early association with the band’s iconic dancing bear imagery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5921378 — 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)
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Target entity: History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) Context triple: [Dancing bears, firstAssociatedRelease, History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice)]
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A.
The Bootleg Series
The Bootleg Series is an ongoing collection of archival releases by Bob Dylan, featuring previously unreleased recordings, alternate takes, and live performances that illuminate different phases of his career.
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B.
Dont Look Back
Dont Look Back is a landmark 1967 documentary film that follows Bob Dylan’s 1965 concert tour in England, renowned for its cinéma vérité style and influential opening cue-card sequence.
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C.
Playing in the Band
"Playing in the Band" is a signature psychedelic rock song closely associated with Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead, known for its complex rhythms and extended live improvisations.
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D.
Band of Gypsys
Band of Gypsys was a short-lived but influential rock and funk fusion group formed by guitarist Jimi Hendrix with bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, best known for their powerful live performances and the landmark 1970 live album of the same name.
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E.
The Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan and The Band
The Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan and The Band is a celebrated collection of informal 1967 recordings that helped shape the roots-rock sound and mythos surrounding Bob Dylan and his backing group, later known as The Band.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) Target entity description: History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) is a 1973 live album by the Grateful Dead, curated by sound engineer Owsley “Bear” Stanley and notable for its early association with the band’s iconic dancing bear imagery.
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A.
The Bootleg Series
The Bootleg Series is an ongoing collection of archival releases by Bob Dylan, featuring previously unreleased recordings, alternate takes, and live performances that illuminate different phases of his career.
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B.
Dont Look Back
Dont Look Back is a landmark 1967 documentary film that follows Bob Dylan’s 1965 concert tour in England, renowned for its cinéma vérité style and influential opening cue-card sequence.
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C.
Playing in the Band
"Playing in the Band" is a signature psychedelic rock song closely associated with Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead, known for its complex rhythms and extended live improvisations.
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D.
Band of Gypsys
Band of Gypsys was a short-lived but influential rock and funk fusion group formed by guitarist Jimi Hendrix with bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, best known for their powerful live performances and the landmark 1970 live album of the same name.
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E.
The Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan and The Band
The Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan and The Band is a celebrated collection of informal 1967 recordings that helped shape the roots-rock sound and mythos surrounding Bob Dylan and his backing group, later known as The Band.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Grateful Dead album
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live album ⓘ |
| artist | Grateful Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | dancing bear imagery ⓘ |
| compiler | Owsley "Bear" Stanley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsTrack |
Big Boss Man
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Black Peter NERFINISHED ⓘ Dark Hollow NERFINISHED ⓘ Hard to Handle NERFINISHED ⓘ I’ve Been All Around This World NERFINISHED ⓘ Katie Mae NERFINISHED ⓘ Smokestack Lightning NERFINISHED ⓘ Wake Up Little Susie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtAssociatedWith | Grateful Dead dancing bear logo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coverArtFeatures | dancing bears NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coverDesigner | Bob Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| curator | Owsley "Bear" Stanley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresPerformer |
Bill Kreutzmann
NERFINISHED
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Bob Weir NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Garcia NERFINISHED ⓘ Mickey Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Lesh NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron "Pigpen" McKernan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Wake of the Flood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | LP ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
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psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasLiveSource | Grateful Dead concerts at Fillmore East in February 1970 ⓘ |
| hasType |
archival release
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posthumous tribute to Ron "Pigpen" McKernan ⓘ |
| label | Warner Bros. Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | early association with the Grateful Dead dancing bear logo ⓘ |
| precededBy | Europe ’72 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Owsley "Bear" Stanley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recorded |
1970-02-13
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1970-02-14 ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Fillmore East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedInCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reissuedOn | CD ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1973-07-13 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| series | History of the Grateful Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Bear’s Choice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tributeTo | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| volumeNumber | 1 ⓘ |
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: History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) Description of subject: History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) is a 1973 live album by the Grateful Dead, curated by sound engineer Owsley “Bear” Stanley and notable for its early association with the band’s iconic dancing bear imagery.
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subject surface form:
Dancing bears