Pentangle
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Pentangle is a British folk-jazz band, formed in the late 1960s, known for its innovative fusion of traditional folk music with jazz, blues, and rock influences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pentangle canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10012284 — 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: Pentangle Context triple: [Gerry Conway (musician), memberOf, Pentangle]
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A.
Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant was a British progressive rock band known for its complex compositions, intricate vocal harmonies, and experimental approach during the 1970s.
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B.
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention is a pioneering British folk rock band, formed in the late 1960s, known for fusing traditional folk music with rock and for influential albums like "Liege & Lief."
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C.
Moody Blues
The Moody Blues are an English rock band best known for pioneering progressive and symphonic rock with their landmark 1967 album "Days of Future Passed."
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D.
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull was an English agricultural pioneer best known for inventing the seed drill and advancing modern farming techniques during the early 18th century.
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E.
King Crimson
King Crimson is a pioneering English progressive rock band formed in 1968, renowned for its experimental, genre-defying sound and influential albums like "In the Court of the Crimson King."
- 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: Pentangle Target entity description: Pentangle is a British folk-jazz band, formed in the late 1960s, known for its innovative fusion of traditional folk music with jazz, blues, and rock influences.
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A.
Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant was a British progressive rock band known for its complex compositions, intricate vocal harmonies, and experimental approach during the 1970s.
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B.
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention is a pioneering British folk rock band, formed in the late 1960s, known for fusing traditional folk music with rock and for influential albums like "Liege & Lief."
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C.
Moody Blues
The Moody Blues are an English rock band best known for pioneering progressive and symphonic rock with their landmark 1967 album "Days of Future Passed."
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D.
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull was an English agricultural pioneer best known for inventing the seed drill and advancing modern farming techniques during the early 18th century.
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E.
King Crimson
King Crimson is a pioneering English progressive rock band formed in 1968, renowned for its experimental, genre-defying sound and influential albums like "In the Court of the Crimson King."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British folk-jazz band
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musical group ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | late 1960s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement (group) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
British folk rock
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blues ⓘ folk jazz ⓘ folk rock ⓘ jazz ⓘ rock ⓘ traditional folk music ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
complex guitar interplay
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extended instrumental passages ⓘ intricate vocal harmonies ⓘ use of acoustic instruments ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLineupMember |
Bert Jansch
NERFINISHED
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Danny Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacqui McShee NERFINISHED ⓘ John Renbourn NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1967 ⓘ |
| influenced |
British folk rock scene
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subsequent folk-jazz fusion artists ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
blues music
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contemporary rock music ⓘ jazz improvisation ⓘ traditional British folk music ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| member |
Bert Jansch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Danny Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacqui McShee NERFINISHED ⓘ John Renbourn NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | reunions with varying lineups after original breakup ⓘ |
| notableFor | fusion of traditional folk music with jazz, blues, and rock influences ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Light Flight
NERFINISHED
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Once I Had a Sweetheart NERFINISHED ⓘ Train Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Basket of Light
NERFINISHED
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Cruel Sister NERFINISHED ⓘ Solomon’s Seal NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweet Child NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pentangle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Reprise Records
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Transatlantic Records 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: Pentangle Description of subject: Pentangle is a British folk-jazz band, formed in the late 1960s, known for its innovative fusion of traditional folk music with jazz, blues, and rock influences.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.