Spinal Tap
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Spinal Tap is a fictional British heavy metal band from the mockumentary film "This Is Spinal Tap," known for satirizing rock music culture with exaggerated onstage antics and humorous songs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spinal Tap canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9906579 — 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: Spinal Tap Context triple: [Tenacious D, hasAssociatedAct, Spinal Tap]
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A.
This Is Spinal Tap
This Is Spinal Tap is a 1984 mockumentary comedy film that satirizes rock bands and the music industry through the fictional British heavy metal group Spinal Tap.
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B.
Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Feelgood is a British pub rock band known for their high-energy rhythm and blues style and influential role in the 1970s UK rock scene.
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C.
Baghead
Baghead is a 2008 indie horror-comedy film about struggling filmmakers who retreat to a cabin in the woods to write a screenplay, only to encounter a mysterious figure with a bag over their head.
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D.
Spank Rock
Spank Rock is an American hip hop group known for its eclectic, club-oriented sound that blends rap with electronic and dance music.
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E.
The Rutles
The Rutles are a British parody band that satirizes The Beatles, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for a mockumentary that lovingly spoofs the Fab Four’s history and music.
- 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: Spinal Tap Target entity description: Spinal Tap is a fictional British heavy metal band from the mockumentary film "This Is Spinal Tap," known for satirizing rock music culture with exaggerated onstage antics and humorous songs.
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A.
This Is Spinal Tap
This Is Spinal Tap is a 1984 mockumentary comedy film that satirizes rock bands and the music industry through the fictional British heavy metal group Spinal Tap.
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B.
Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Feelgood is a British pub rock band known for their high-energy rhythm and blues style and influential role in the 1970s UK rock scene.
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C.
Baghead
Baghead is a 2008 indie horror-comedy film about struggling filmmakers who retreat to a cabin in the woods to write a screenplay, only to encounter a mysterious figure with a bag over their head.
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D.
Spank Rock
Spank Rock is an American hip hop group known for its eclectic, club-oriented sound that blends rap with electronic and dance music.
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E.
The Rutles
The Rutles are a British parody band that satirizes The Beatles, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for a mockumentary that lovingly spoofs the Fab Four’s history and music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British rock band
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fictional band ⓘ heavy metal band ⓘ mockumentary subject ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdFor | film ⓘ |
| createdForWork | This Is Spinal Tap NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedIn | This Is Spinal Tap NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | This Is Spinal Tap NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy rock
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hard rock ⓘ heavy metal ⓘ parody music ⓘ |
| hasFictionalAlbum |
Intravenus de Milo
NERFINISHED
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Rock and Roll Creation NERFINISHED ⓘ Shark Sandwich NERFINISHED ⓘ Smell the Glove NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sun Never Sweats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalManager | Ian Faith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
David St. Hubbins
NERFINISHED
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Derek Smalls NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigel Tufnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ lead guitar ⓘ lead vocals ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
1970s rock bands
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British heavy metal bands ⓘ |
| knownFor |
humorous songs
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mockumentary style presentation ⓘ onstage antics ⓘ satirizing rock music culture ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
amplifiers with volume knobs labeled up to eleven
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elaborate but malfunctioning stage props ⓘ exaggerated rock star behavior ⓘ frequent drummer changes ⓘ onstage pyrotechnic mishaps ⓘ satirical lyrics ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Big Bottom
NERFINISHED
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Gimme Some Money NERFINISHED ⓘ Hell Hole NERFINISHED ⓘ Listen to the Flower People NERFINISHED ⓘ Sex Farm NERFINISHED ⓘ Stonehenge NERFINISHED ⓘ Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | This Is Spinal Tap NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parodies |
heavy metal excess
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rock music culture ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Christopher Guest
NERFINISHED
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Harry Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael McKean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Spinal Tap Description of subject: Spinal Tap is a fictional British heavy metal band from the mockumentary film "This Is Spinal Tap," known for satirizing rock music culture with exaggerated onstage antics and humorous songs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.