Spin Doctors
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Spin Doctors are an American rock band best known for their early-1990s hits like “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,” blending jam-band sensibilities with pop-oriented rock.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spin Doctors canonical | 1 |
| The Spin Doctors | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10994207 — 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: Spin Doctors Context triple: [Blues Traveler, associatedAct, Spin Doctors]
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A.
Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps are a British electronic/trip-hop band best known for their 1996 debut album "Becoming X" and the hit single "6 Underground."
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B.
The Style Council
The Style Council was an English sophisti-pop and soul-influenced band formed in the early 1980s by Paul Weller after The Jam, known for its jazzy, politically conscious pop songs.
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C.
The Verve
The Verve is an English alternative rock band best known for their 1997 hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and the critically acclaimed album "Urban Hymns."
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D.
Primal Scream
Primal Scream is a Scottish rock band known for blending indie rock, dance, and psychedelic influences, particularly on their acclaimed 1991 album "Screamadelica."
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E.
Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays are an influential English alternative rock band from Manchester, central to the late-1980s Madchester scene for their fusion of indie rock, funk, and acid house.
- 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: Spin Doctors Target entity description: Spin Doctors are an American rock band best known for their early-1990s hits like “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,” blending jam-band sensibilities with pop-oriented rock.
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A.
Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps are a British electronic/trip-hop band best known for their 1996 debut album "Becoming X" and the hit single "6 Underground."
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B.
The Style Council
The Style Council was an English sophisti-pop and soul-influenced band formed in the early 1980s by Paul Weller after The Jam, known for its jazzy, politically conscious pop songs.
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C.
The Verve
The Verve is an English alternative rock band best known for their 1997 hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and the critically acclaimed album "Urban Hymns."
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D.
Primal Scream
Primal Scream is a Scottish rock band known for blending indie rock, dance, and psychedelic influences, particularly on their acclaimed 1991 album "Screamadelica."
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E.
Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays are an influential English alternative rock band from Manchester, central to the late-1980s Madchester scene for their fusion of indie rock, funk, and acid house.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
ⓘ
rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| album |
Here Comes the Bride
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
If the River Was Whiskey NERFINISHED ⓘ Nice Talking to Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Pocket Full of Kryptonite NERFINISHED ⓘ Turn It Upside Down NERFINISHED ⓘ You’ve Got to Believe in Something NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Aaron Comess
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blues Traveler NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Barron NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Schenkman NERFINISHED ⓘ John Popper NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark White NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fun Bunnies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassist | Mark White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Pocket Full of Kryptonite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| drummer | Aaron Comess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedIn | 1988 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
blues rock ⓘ funk rock ⓘ jam band ⓘ pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| guitarist | Eric Schenkman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hitSingle |
Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Two Princes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong_chartSuccess | US rock and pop charts ⓘ |
| member |
Aaron Comess
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Barron NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Schenkman NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | jam-band sensibilities with pop-oriented rock ⓘ |
| notableWork |
How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jimmy Olsen’s Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong NERFINISHED ⓘ Pocket Full of Kryptonite NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Princes NERFINISHED ⓘ What Time Is It? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakPopularityPeriod | early 1990s ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Epic Records
ⓘ
Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Music
|
| Two Princes_chartSuccess | Top 10 in multiple countries ⓘ |
| vocalist | Chris Barron 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: Spin Doctors Description of subject: Spin Doctors are an American rock band best known for their early-1990s hits like “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,” blending jam-band sensibilities with pop-oriented rock.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Spin Doctors