Hot Water Music
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Hot Water Music is a 1983 collection of gritty, darkly humorous short stories by American writer Charles Bukowski, showcasing his signature themes of alcoholism, marginalization, and raw urban life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hot Water Music canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6351090 — 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: Hot Water Music Context triple: [Charles Bukowski, notableWork, Hot Water Music]
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A.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
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B.
Sebadoh
Sebadoh is an influential American indie rock band, co-founded by Lou Barlow, known for pioneering the lo-fi aesthetic of the late 1980s and 1990s underground music scene.
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C.
Built to Spill
Built to Spill is an American indie rock band known for its intricate guitar work, introspective lyrics, and influential role in the 1990s and 2000s indie music scene.
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D.
Slint
Slint is an influential American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, widely credited with helping pioneer the post-rock and math rock genres through their intricate, atmospheric sound and the landmark album "Spiderland."
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E.
Superchunk
Superchunk is an influential American indie rock band formed in 1989 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, known for its energetic guitar-driven sound and role in shaping the 1990s indie 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: Hot Water Music Target entity description: Hot Water Music is a 1983 collection of gritty, darkly humorous short stories by American writer Charles Bukowski, showcasing his signature themes of alcoholism, marginalization, and raw urban life.
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A.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
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B.
Sebadoh
Sebadoh is an influential American indie rock band, co-founded by Lou Barlow, known for pioneering the lo-fi aesthetic of the late 1980s and 1990s underground music scene.
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C.
Built to Spill
Built to Spill is an American indie rock band known for its intricate guitar work, introspective lyrics, and influential role in the 1990s and 2000s indie music scene.
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D.
Slint
Slint is an influential American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, widely credited with helping pioneer the post-rock and math rock genres through their intricate, atmospheric sound and the landmark album "Spiderland."
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E.
Superchunk
Superchunk is an influential American indie rock band formed in 1989 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, known for its energetic guitar-driven sound and role in shaping the 1990s indie scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Charles Bukowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsWork |
A Couple of Winos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hot Water Music (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ I Was Born to Hustle Roses Down the Avenue of the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Less Delicate Than the Locust NERFINISHED ⓘ The Death of the Father NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Poet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
dirty realism
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ transgressive fiction ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Charles Bukowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alcoholism
ⓘ
alienation ⓘ marginalization ⓘ sexual relationships ⓘ urban life ⓘ violence ⓘ working-class existence ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary dirty realism writers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
darkly humorous
ⓘ
gritty ⓘ minimalist prose ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of skid-row and bar culture in Los Angeles ⓘ |
| partOf | Charles Bukowski bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| publisher | Black Sparrow Press 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: Hot Water Music Description of subject: Hot Water Music is a 1983 collection of gritty, darkly humorous short stories by American writer Charles Bukowski, showcasing his signature themes of alcoholism, marginalization, and raw urban life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.