Toto
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Toto is an American rock band best known for hits like "Africa," "Rosanna," and "Hold the Line," blending pop, rock, and jazz influences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toto canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8484354 — 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: Toto Context triple: [Chicago, hasAssociatedAct, Toto]
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A.
Toto
Toto is the small, loyal dog who accompanies Dorothy Gale on her adventures in L. Frank Baum’s "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and its adaptations.
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B.
Toto
Toto is a local government area in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, known for its predominantly rural communities and agrarian-based economy.
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C.
Toto
Toto is the nickname of Italian former footballer Salvatore Schillaci, famed for his standout goal-scoring performance at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
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D.
TOM the Tiger
TOM the Tiger is the live Bengal tiger mascot that represents the University of Memphis Tigers athletic programs.
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E.
Buggsy
Buggsy is the nickname of Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein, an American mobster associated with organized crime in the early 20th century.
- 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: Toto Target entity description: Toto is an American rock band best known for hits like "Africa," "Rosanna," and "Hold the Line," blending pop, rock, and jazz influences.
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A.
Toto
Toto is the small, loyal dog who accompanies Dorothy Gale on her adventures in L. Frank Baum’s "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and its adaptations.
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B.
Toto
Toto is a local government area in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, known for its predominantly rural communities and agrarian-based economy.
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C.
Toto
Toto is the nickname of Italian former footballer Salvatore Schillaci, famed for his standout goal-scoring performance at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
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D.
TOM the Tiger
TOM the Tiger is the live Bengal tiger mascot that represents the University of Memphis Tigers athletic programs.
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E.
Buggsy
Buggsy is the nickname of Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein, an American mobster associated with organized crime in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rock band ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ late 1970s ⓘ |
| album |
Fahrenheit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Falling in Between NERFINISHED ⓘ Hydra NERFINISHED ⓘ Isolation NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of Desire NERFINISHED ⓘ Mindfields NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Is New NERFINISHED ⓘ Tambu NERFINISHED ⓘ The Seventh One NERFINISHED ⓘ Through the Looking Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ Toto NERFINISHED ⓘ Toto IV NERFINISHED ⓘ Toto XIV NERFINISHED ⓘ Turn Back NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Album of the Year
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award for Record of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formedIn | 1977 ⓘ |
| genre |
AOR
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R&B ⓘ arena rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ jazz rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasSignatureSong |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hold the Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosanna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Bobby Kimball
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Hungate NERFINISHED ⓘ David Paich NERFINISHED ⓘ Greg Phillinganes NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Porcaro NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Porcaro NERFINISHED ⓘ Shannon Forrest NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Lukather NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Porcaro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAwardedWork | Toto IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
99
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Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Africa (album track on Toto IV) NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgy Porgy NERFINISHED ⓘ Hold the Line NERFINISHED ⓘ I Won't Hold You Back NERFINISHED ⓘ I'll Be Over You NERFINISHED ⓘ Pamela NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosanna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Music
|
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: Toto Description of subject: Toto is an American rock band best known for hits like "Africa," "Rosanna," and "Hold the Line," blending pop, rock, and jazz influences.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chicago
subject surface form:
Yamaha CS-80