Silk Degrees
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Silk Degrees is a 1976 blue-eyed soul and soft rock album by Boz Scaggs that became his commercial breakthrough, featuring hits like "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silk Degrees canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9701914 — 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: Silk Degrees Context triple: [Boz Scaggs, notableWork, Silk Degrees]
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A.
Silk & Soul
Silk & Soul is a 1967 studio album by American singer, pianist, and civil rights icon Nina Simone, blending jazz, soul, and pop with socially conscious themes.
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B.
Velvet and Silk City
Velvet and Silk City is a traditional nickname for Krefeld, a German city historically renowned for its textile and silk manufacturing industry.
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C.
Weave
Weave is Google's Internet of Things (IoT) communication platform designed to let smart devices easily discover, connect, and work together across different ecosystems.
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D.
Silken Floss
Silken Floss is a stylish and enigmatic femme fatale and scientist who serves as one of the main villains in the 2008 superhero film "The Spirit."
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E.
Lace and Leather
"Lace and Leather" is a song by Alice Cooper from his 1980 hard rock album "Flush the Fashion."
- 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: Silk Degrees Target entity description: Silk Degrees is a 1976 blue-eyed soul and soft rock album by Boz Scaggs that became his commercial breakthrough, featuring hits like "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle."
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A.
Silk & Soul
Silk & Soul is a 1967 studio album by American singer, pianist, and civil rights icon Nina Simone, blending jazz, soul, and pop with socially conscious themes.
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B.
Velvet and Silk City
Velvet and Silk City is a traditional nickname for Krefeld, a German city historically renowned for its textile and silk manufacturing industry.
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C.
Weave
Weave is Google's Internet of Things (IoT) communication platform designed to let smart devices easily discover, connect, and work together across different ecosystems.
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D.
Silken Floss
Silken Floss is a stylish and enigmatic femme fatale and scientist who serves as one of the main villains in the 2008 superhero film "The Spirit."
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E.
Lace and Leather
"Lace and Leather" is a song by Alice Cooper from his 1980 hard rock album "Flush the Fashion."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Boz Scaggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best R&B Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certification |
BPI Platinum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RIAA 5× Platinum ⓘ |
| chartPosition | Billboard 200 number 2 ⓘ |
| commercialSuccess | breakthrough album for Boz Scaggs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtDesigner | Phil Hartman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
David Hungate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Paich NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Porcaro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Down Two Then Left NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Slow Dancer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blue-eyed soul
ⓘ
disco ⓘ pop rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Georgia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harbor Lights NERFINISHED ⓘ Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ It's Over NERFINISHED ⓘ Jump Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Lido Shuffle NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Me Tomorrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Lowdown NERFINISHED ⓘ We're All Alone NERFINISHED ⓘ We’re All Alone NERFINISHED ⓘ What Can I Say NERFINISHED ⓘ What Do You Want the Girl to Do NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | formation of Toto ⓘ |
| label | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 41 minutes ⓘ |
| mainSingle |
It’s Over
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lido Shuffle NERFINISHED ⓘ Lowdown NERFINISHED ⓘ What Can I Say NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lido Shuffle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lowdown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Boz Scaggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Joe Wissert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recorded | 1975 ⓘ |
| recordedAt |
Davlen Sound Studios
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hollywood Sound Recorders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1976-02-18 ⓘ |
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: Silk Degrees Description of subject: Silk Degrees is a 1976 blue-eyed soul and soft rock album by Boz Scaggs that became his commercial breakthrough, featuring hits like "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.