XTC
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XTC is an influential English rock band known for its inventive songwriting, melodic sophistication, and significant impact on new wave and alternative music from the late 1970s onward.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XTC canonical | 27 |
| XTC discography | 5 |
| English rock band XTC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T775559 — 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: XTC Context triple: [Geffen Records, signedArtist, XTC]
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A.
The Buggles
The Buggles were a British new wave band best known for their pioneering 1979 synth-pop hit "Video Killed the Radio Star."
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B.
Art of Noise
Art of Noise is a pioneering British avant-garde synth-pop group known for its innovative use of sampling and experimental electronic production in the 1980s.
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C.
Bauhaus
Bauhaus was a pioneering German art and design school and movement that fused fine arts with crafts and modern technology, profoundly shaping modernist architecture, graphic design, and industrial design worldwide.
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D.
The Housemartins
The Housemartins were a British indie pop band from Hull in the 1980s, best known for their socially conscious lyrics and hit singles like "Happy Hour" and "Caravan of Love."
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E.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
- 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: XTC Target entity description: XTC is an influential English rock band known for its inventive songwriting, melodic sophistication, and significant impact on new wave and alternative music from the late 1970s onward.
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A.
The Buggles
The Buggles were a British new wave band best known for their pioneering 1979 synth-pop hit "Video Killed the Radio Star."
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B.
Art of Noise
Art of Noise is a pioneering British avant-garde synth-pop group known for its innovative use of sampling and experimental electronic production in the 1980s.
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C.
Bauhaus
Bauhaus was a pioneering German art and design school and movement that fused fine arts with crafts and modern technology, profoundly shaping modernist architecture, graphic design, and industrial design worldwide.
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D.
The Housemartins
The Housemartins were a British indie pop band from Hull in the 1980s, best known for their socially conscious lyrics and hit singles like "Happy Hour" and "Caravan of Love."
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E.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: XTC Description of subject: XTC is an influential English rock band known for its inventive songwriting, melodic sophistication, and significant impact on new wave and alternative music from the late 1970s onward.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
English rock band XTC
this entity surface form:
XTC discography
this entity surface form:
XTC discography
this entity surface form:
XTC discography
this entity surface form:
XTC discography