The Commodores
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The Commodores are an American funk and soul band best known for their 1970s and 1980s hits like “Brick House” and “Easy,” and for launching Lionel Richie’s career.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Commodores | 61 |
| The Commodores canonical | 9 |
| Commodores (former band of Lionel Richie) | 2 |
| Commodores discography | 2 |
| Commodores (through Lionel Richie’s career) | 1 |
| Lionel Richie & The Commodores | 1 |
| Motown group Commodores | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T479724 — 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: The Commodores Context triple: [Motown, launchedCareerOf, The Commodores]
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A.
Commodores
The Commodores are the athletic teams representing Vanderbilt University in NCAA Division I sports, particularly known for their participation in the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
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B.
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band was a pioneering American rock group known for blending blues, jazz, and country into a distinctive Southern rock sound and for their influential improvisational live performances.
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C.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is a legendary American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for their blues-influenced hard rock sound and hits like "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion," and "Walk This Way."
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D.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
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E.
Journey
Journey is an American rock band formed in the 1970s, best known for their arena rock anthems like "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Any Way You Want It."
- 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 Commodores Target entity description: The Commodores are an American funk and soul band best known for their 1970s and 1980s hits like “Brick House” and “Easy,” and for launching Lionel Richie’s career.
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A.
Commodores
The Commodores are the athletic teams representing Vanderbilt University in NCAA Division I sports, particularly known for their participation in the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
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B.
The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band was a pioneering American rock group known for blending blues, jazz, and country into a distinctive Southern rock sound and for their influential improvisational live performances.
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C.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is a legendary American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for their blues-influenced hard rock sound and hits like "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion," and "Walk This Way."
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D.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
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E.
Journey
Journey is an American rock band formed in the 1970s, best known for their arena rock anthems like "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Any Way You Want It."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
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funk band ⓘ musical group ⓘ soul band ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Lionel Richie
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Motown ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formedIn | 1968 ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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disco ⓘ funk ⓘ pop ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| hasHitSingle |
Brick House
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Easy ⓘ Nightshift ⓘ Sail On ⓘ Still ⓘ Three Times a Lady ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ guitars ⓘ horn section ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| member |
J.D. Nicholas
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James Dean Nicholas ⓘ Lionel Richie ⓘ Milan Williams ⓘ Ronald LaPread ⓘ Thomas McClary ⓘ Walter Orange ⓘ William King ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Motown
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surface form:
Motown Records
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| notableFor | launching Lionel Richie’s career ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brick House
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Easy ⓘ Lady (You Bring Me Up) ⓘ Machine Gun ⓘ Nightshift ⓘ Sail On ⓘ Still ⓘ Three Times a Lady ⓘ Zoom ⓘ |
| placeOfFormation |
Tuskegee, Alabama, United States
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surface form:
Tuskegee, Alabama
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| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
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Motown ⓘ Polydor Records ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | group vocals ⓘ |
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 Commodores Description of subject: The Commodores are an American funk and soul band best known for their 1970s and 1980s hits like “Brick House” and “Easy,” and for launching Lionel Richie’s career.
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