Silverball
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Silverball is a 2015 studio album by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies that blends their signature melodic pop-rock with reflective, nostalgic themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silverball canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8268533 — 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: Silverball Context triple: [Barenaked Ladies, hasAlbum, Silverball]
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A.
The Ball
"The Ball" is a short story by renowned Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, reflecting his characteristic blend of psychological insight and modernist narrative style.
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B.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
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C.
The Ball
The Ball is the central object used in football (soccer), whose movement and status determine when play is active or stopped according to the Laws of the Game.
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D.
Blackball
Blackball is a track from DJ Khaled’s 2013 hip-hop album "Suffering from Success."
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E.
Lo-Ball
Lo-Ball is an alternative rock band best known for featuring actress and musician Pauley Perrette as its lead singer.
- 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: Silverball Target entity description: Silverball is a 2015 studio album by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies that blends their signature melodic pop-rock with reflective, nostalgic themes.
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A.
The Ball
"The Ball" is a short story by renowned Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, reflecting his characteristic blend of psychological insight and modernist narrative style.
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B.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
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C.
The Ball
The Ball is the central object used in football (soccer), whose movement and status determine when play is active or stopped according to the Laws of the Game.
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D.
Blackball
Blackball is a track from DJ Khaled’s 2013 hip-hop album "Suffering from Success."
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E.
Lo-Ball
Lo-Ball is an alternative rock band best known for featuring actress and musician Pauley Perrette as its lead singer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Barenaked Ladies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| coverArtFeatures | pinball imagery ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasContributor |
Ed Robertson
NERFINISHED
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Jim Creeggan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Hearn NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyler Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSingle |
Duct Tape Heart
NERFINISHED
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Say What You Want NERFINISHED ⓘ Silverball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Duct Tape Heart
NERFINISHED
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Get Back Up NERFINISHED ⓘ Globetrot NERFINISHED ⓘ Hold My Hand NERFINISHED ⓘ Matter of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Narrow Streets NERFINISHED ⓘ Passcode ⓘ Piece of Cake NERFINISHED ⓘ Say What You Want NERFINISHED ⓘ Silverball NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Is a Lonely Place NERFINISHED ⓘ Tired of Fighting with You NERFINISHED ⓘ Toe to Toe NERFINISHED ⓘ Tonie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 49 minutes ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
aging
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nostalgia ⓘ reflection ⓘ relationships ⓘ |
| nextWork | BNL Rocks Red Rocks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextWorkReleaseYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 14 ⓘ |
| partOf | Barenaked Ladies discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Barenaked Ladies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWork | Grinning Streak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWorkReleaseYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| primarySongwriter | Ed Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Gavin Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 2014–2015 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Vanguard Records
NERFINISHED
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Warner Music Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2015-06-02 ⓘ |
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: Silverball Description of subject: Silverball is a 2015 studio album by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies that blends their signature melodic pop-rock with reflective, nostalgic themes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.