Bad Radio
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Bad Radio was an American alternative rock band from San Diego best known as one of Eddie Vedder’s early pre–Pearl Jam projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bad Radio canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6329189 — 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: Bad Radio Context triple: [Eddie Vedder, associatedAct, Bad Radio]
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A.
Black Radio
Black Radio is a Grammy-winning album by jazz pianist and producer Robert Glasper that blends jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and neo-soul with an array of guest vocalists.
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B.
Voice on the Radio
"Voice on the Radio" is a song featured on the album *Take My Time* by British singer Sheena Easton.
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C.
On the Radio
"On the Radio" is a popular 1979 disco song by Donna Summer that became one of her signature hits and the title track of a greatest hits compilation.
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D.
It's Bad for Ya
"It's Bad for Ya" is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, known for its sharp social commentary and being his final HBO performance before his death.
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E.
Pirate Radio
Pirate Radio is a 2009 British comedy film about an outlaw radio station broadcasting rock music from a ship in the North Sea during the 1960s.
- 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: Bad Radio Target entity description: Bad Radio was an American alternative rock band from San Diego best known as one of Eddie Vedder’s early pre–Pearl Jam projects.
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A.
Black Radio
Black Radio is a Grammy-winning album by jazz pianist and producer Robert Glasper that blends jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and neo-soul with an array of guest vocalists.
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B.
Voice on the Radio
"Voice on the Radio" is a song featured on the album *Take My Time* by British singer Sheena Easton.
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C.
On the Radio
"On the Radio" is a popular 1979 disco song by Donna Summer that became one of her signature hits and the title track of a greatest hits compilation.
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D.
It's Bad for Ya
"It's Bad for Ya" is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, known for its sharp social commentary and being his final HBO performance before his death.
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E.
Pirate Radio
Pirate Radio is a 2009 British comedy film about an outlaw radio station broadcasting rock music from a ship in the North Sea during the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | American alternative rock band ⓘ |
| activeEnd | early 1990s ⓘ |
| activeStart | mid-1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Eddie Vedder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pearl Jam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Diego, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
funk rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasDemo |
Tower Records demo
ⓘ
What the Funk (demo) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormerMember |
Bret Aiken
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave George NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Silva NERFINISHED ⓘ Dawn Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Vedder NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Volz NERFINISHED ⓘ Joey Ponchetti NERFINISHED ⓘ John Krewson NERFINISHED ⓘ Keith Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Bret Aiken
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave George NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Silva NERFINISHED ⓘ Dawn Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Vedder NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Volz NERFINISHED ⓘ Joey Ponchetti NERFINISHED ⓘ John Krewson NERFINISHED ⓘ Keith Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyleCharacteristic |
funk-influenced alternative rock
ⓘ
melodic rock vocals ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent |
Eddie Vedder joined the band as lead vocalist
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eddie Vedder left the band before joining Pearl Jam ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Red Hot Chili Peppers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Police NERFINISHED ⓘ U2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of Eddie Vedder’s pre–Pearl Jam bands ⓘ |
| notableMember | Eddie Vedder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedIn |
San Diego music scene
ⓘ
Southern California clubs ⓘ |
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: Bad Radio Description of subject: Bad Radio was an American alternative rock band from San Diego best known as one of Eddie Vedder’s early pre–Pearl Jam projects.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.