Foals
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Foals is a British indie rock band known for its intricate guitar work, dynamic live performances, and evolution from math rock roots to a broader, more atmospheric sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Foals canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10918578 — 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: Foals Context triple: [The Haxan Cloak, hasCollaboration, Foals]
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A.
The Unicorns
The Unicorns were a Canadian indie rock band known for their quirky, lo-fi sound and cult-favorite 2003 album "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?".
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B.
Svans
Svans are a distinct subethnic group of Georgians known for their unique Svan language, highland culture, and traditional communities in the Svaneti region of the Caucasus.
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C.
The Bunnies
The Bunnies is a popular nickname for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, a historic professional rugby league club based in Sydney, Australia.
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D.
Young Shire
Young Shire was a former local government area in New South Wales, Australia, centered on the town of Young and known for its agricultural and cherry-growing region.
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E.
Foale
Foale is the surname of Michael Foale, a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut known for his long-duration spaceflights and work on the Mir and International Space Station.
- 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: Foals Target entity description: Foals is a British indie rock band known for its intricate guitar work, dynamic live performances, and evolution from math rock roots to a broader, more atmospheric sound.
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A.
The Unicorns
The Unicorns were a Canadian indie rock band known for their quirky, lo-fi sound and cult-favorite 2003 album "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?".
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B.
Svans
Svans are a distinct subethnic group of Georgians known for their unique Svan language, highland culture, and traditional communities in the Svaneti region of the Caucasus.
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C.
The Bunnies
The Bunnies is a popular nickname for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, a historic professional rugby league club based in Sydney, Australia.
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D.
Young Shire
Young Shire was a former local government area in New South Wales, Australia, centered on the town of Young and known for its agricultural and cherry-growing region.
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E.
Foale
Foale is the surname of Michael Foale, a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut known for his long-duration spaceflights and work on the Mir and International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
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indie rock band ⓘ musical group ⓘ |
| awardNominationYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| basedIn | Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Antidotes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| fifthAlbum | Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fifthAlbumReleaseYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| formedIn | 2005 ⓘ |
| formedInCity | Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fourthAlbum | What Went Down NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fourthAlbumReleaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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art rock ⓘ dance-punk ⓘ indie rock ⓘ math rock ⓘ post-punk revival ⓘ |
| hasBassist | Walter Gervers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDrummer | Jack Bevan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormerMember |
Alistair Bowis
NERFINISHED
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Andrew Mears NERFINISHED ⓘ Edwin Congreave NERFINISHED ⓘ Lachlan Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Gervers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGuitarist | Jimmy Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyboardist | Edwin Congreave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLeadVocalist | Yannis Philippakis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Jack Bevan
NERFINISHED
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Jimmy Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Yannis Philippakis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dynamic live performances
ⓘ
evolution from math rock to atmospheric sound ⓘ intricate guitar work ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Mercury Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedWork | Total Life Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Antidotes
NERFINISHED
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Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Holy Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Life Is Yours NERFINISHED ⓘ Total Life Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ What Went Down NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Sub Pop
NERFINISHED
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Transgressive Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| secondAlbum | Total Life Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondAlbumReleaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| seventhAlbum | Life Is Yours NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seventhAlbumReleaseYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| sixthAlbum | Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sixthAlbumReleaseYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| thirdAlbum | Holy Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| thirdAlbumReleaseYear | 2013 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Foals Description of subject: Foals is a British indie rock band known for its intricate guitar work, dynamic live performances, and evolution from math rock roots to a broader, more atmospheric sound.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.