The Slider
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The Slider is a 1972 glam rock album by British band T. Rex, noted for its catchy riffs, Marc Bolan’s distinctive vocals, and its influence on the genre’s rise in the early 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Slider canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13027867 — 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)
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Target entity: The Slider Context triple: [T. Rex, notableWork, The Slider]
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A.
Slider
Slider is the furry, pink, dinosaur-like mascot of Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians), known for his playful antics and colorful appearance at games.
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B.
Slider
Slider is the furry, family-friendly mascot of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball team, known for entertaining fans with on-field antics and community appearances.
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C.
Sliding Pi
Sliding Pi is a public art installation featured at Toronto's Don Mills subway station, known for its playful, mathematically inspired design.
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D.
Slide on This
Slide on This is a solo studio album by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood that blends rock, blues, and roots influences.
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E.
The Spinner
The Spinner is a painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert, exemplifying his refined handling of light, texture, and everyday genre subjects.
- 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 Slider Target entity description: The Slider is a 1972 glam rock album by British band T. Rex, noted for its catchy riffs, Marc Bolan’s distinctive vocals, and its influence on the genre’s rise in the early 1970s.
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A.
Slider
Slider is the furry, pink, dinosaur-like mascot of Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians), known for his playful antics and colorful appearance at games.
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B.
Slider
Slider is the furry, family-friendly mascot of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball team, known for entertaining fans with on-field antics and community appearances.
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C.
Sliding Pi
Sliding Pi is a public art installation featured at Toronto's Don Mills subway station, known for its playful, mathematically inspired design.
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D.
Slide on This
Slide on This is a solo studio album by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood that blends rock, blues, and roots influences.
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E.
The Spinner
The Spinner is a painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert, exemplifying his refined handling of light, texture, and everyday genre subjects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glam rock album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | T. Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPerformance | reached high positions on UK Albums Chart ⓘ |
| composer | Marc Bolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtPhotographer |
Ringo Starr
NERFINISHED
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Spud Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineer | Roy Thomas Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Tanx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
glam rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasBassist | Steve Currie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | praised for songwriting and production ⓘ |
| hasDrummer | Bill Legend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | subsequent glam rock artists ⓘ |
| hasPercussionist | Mickey Finn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSingle |
Metal Guru
NERFINISHED
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Telegram Sam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Baby Boomerang
NERFINISHED
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Ballrooms of Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ Buick MacKane NERFINISHED ⓘ Chariot Choogle NERFINISHED ⓘ Main Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Metal Guru NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock On NERFINISHED ⓘ Spaceball Ricochet NERFINISHED ⓘ Telegram Sam NERFINISHED ⓘ The Slider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | glam rock genre ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 38 minutes ⓘ |
| lyricist | Marc Bolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Marc Bolan’s distinctive vocals
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catchy guitar riffs ⓘ influence on early 1970s glam rock ⓘ |
| partOf | T. Rex discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | T. Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Electric Warrior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Tony Visconti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1972 ⓘ |
| recordedAt |
Château d’Hérouville
NERFINISHED
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T.Rex Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1972 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
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Fly Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Reprise Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Marc Bolan 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: The Slider Description of subject: The Slider is a 1972 glam rock album by British band T. Rex, noted for its catchy riffs, Marc Bolan’s distinctive vocals, and its influence on the genre’s rise in the early 1970s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.