Hemispheres
E740809
Hemispheres is a 1978 progressive rock album by the Canadian band Rush, known for its complex compositions, philosophical lyrics, and extended multi-part title track.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hemispheres canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8544448 — 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: Hemispheres Context triple: [Rush, notableWork, Hemispheres]
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A.
Half of the World
Half of the World is a famous nickname for the Iranian city of Isfahan, highlighting its historical grandeur, architectural splendor, and cultural significance.
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B.
What a World
"What a World" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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C.
Helluland
Helluland is the name given in Norse sagas to a rocky, barren land in North America, often thought to correspond to Baffin Island or nearby regions encountered by Viking explorers.
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D.
Horizons
Horizons is a French centre-right political party founded by former prime minister Édouard Philippe, generally aligned with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist majority.
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E.
Horizons
Horizons is a showcase section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival that presents notable and acclaimed films from around the world outside the main competition.
- 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: Hemispheres Target entity description: Hemispheres is a 1978 progressive rock album by the Canadian band Rush, known for its complex compositions, philosophical lyrics, and extended multi-part title track.
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A.
Half of the World
Half of the World is a famous nickname for the Iranian city of Isfahan, highlighting its historical grandeur, architectural splendor, and cultural significance.
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B.
What a World
"What a World" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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C.
Helluland
Helluland is the name given in Norse sagas to a rocky, barren land in North America, often thought to correspond to Baffin Island or nearby regions encountered by Viking explorers.
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D.
Horizons
Horizons is a French centre-right political party founded by former prime minister Édouard Philippe, generally aligned with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist majority.
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E.
Horizons
Horizons is a showcase section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival that presents notable and acclaimed films from around the world outside the main competition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
progressive rock album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Rush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPeakPosition | 47 on Billboard 200 ⓘ |
| chartPerformance | Billboard 200 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer |
Alex Lifeson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Geddy Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| coverArtBy | Hugh Syme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
Alex Lifeson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Geddy Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Neil Peart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsWork | Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Circumstances
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Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres NERFINISHED ⓘ La Villa Strangiato NERFINISHED ⓘ The Trees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStyleCharacteristic |
conceptual lyrics
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extended instrumental passages ⓘ frequent time signature changes ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 36:08 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Neil Peart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextWork | Permanent Waves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex compositions
ⓘ
extended multi-part title track ⓘ philosophical lyrics ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Cygnus X-1 song cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Rush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWork | A Farewell to Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Terry Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedAt |
Advision Studios
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rockfield Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod |
1978-06
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1978-07 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Anthem Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mercury Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978-10-29 ⓘ |
| titleTrack | Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trackCount | 4 ⓘ |
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: Hemispheres Description of subject: Hemispheres is a 1978 progressive rock album by the Canadian band Rush, known for its complex compositions, philosophical lyrics, and extended multi-part title track.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.