The Motels
E1005661
The Motels are an American new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly Last Summer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Motels canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12815374 — 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: The Motels Context triple: [He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss), coveredBy, The Motels]
-
A.
Bittersweet Motel
Bittersweet Motel is a 2000 documentary film that follows the rock band Phish on tour, offering an inside look at their performances and fan culture.
-
B.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is Neil Young’s 1969 studio album with Crazy Horse, renowned for its raw, guitar-driven sound and classic tracks like “Cinnamon Girl” and “Down by the River.”
-
C.
Spider Rock
Spider Rock is a striking sandstone spire rising dramatically from the floor of Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona, considered both a geological icon and a sacred site in Navajo tradition.
-
D.
The Soft Parade
The Soft Parade is a 1969 album by American rock band The Doors that is noted for its experimental use of brass and string arrangements alongside their psychedelic rock sound.
-
E.
Brokedown Palace
"Brokedown Palace" is a reflective, country-tinged ballad by the Grateful Dead, known for its gentle melody and themes of farewell and homecoming.
- 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: The Motels Target entity description: The Motels are an American new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly Last Summer."
-
A.
Bittersweet Motel
Bittersweet Motel is a 2000 documentary film that follows the rock band Phish on tour, offering an inside look at their performances and fan culture.
-
B.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is Neil Young’s 1969 studio album with Crazy Horse, renowned for its raw, guitar-driven sound and classic tracks like “Cinnamon Girl” and “Down by the River.”
-
C.
Spider Rock
Spider Rock is a striking sandstone spire rising dramatically from the floor of Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona, considered both a geological icon and a sacred site in Navajo tradition.
-
D.
The Soft Parade
The Soft Parade is a 1969 album by American rock band The Doors that is noted for its experimental use of brass and string arrangements alongside their psychedelic rock sound.
-
E.
Brokedown Palace
"Brokedown Palace" is a reflective, country-tinged ballad by the Grateful Dead, known for its gentle melody and themes of farewell and homecoming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
ⓘ
musical group ⓘ new wave band ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Martha Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formedIn |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
new wave ⓘ pop rock ⓘ post-punk ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasLeadVocalist | Martha Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember | Martha Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableEra | 1980s ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | The Motels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySongwriter | Martha Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
All Four One
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Careful NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Robbers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Motels (debut album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
Only the Lonely
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Suddenly Last Summer NERFINISHED ⓘ Take the L NERFINISHED ⓘ Total Control NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Danger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mission of Mercy NERFINISHED ⓘ Only the Lonely NERFINISHED ⓘ Suddenly Last Summer NERFINISHED ⓘ Take the L NERFINISHED ⓘ Total Control NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | lead vocalist of The Motels ⓘ |
| origin | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | melodic new wave ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | female lead vocals ⓘ |
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: The Motels Description of subject: The Motels are an American new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly Last Summer."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.