Bolan's Zip Gun
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Bolan's Zip Gun is a 1975 glam rock album by T. Rex, showcasing Marc Bolan's shift toward a funkier, more stripped-down sound during the later phase of the band's career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bolan's Zip Gun canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13027871 — 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: Bolan's Zip Gun Context triple: [T. Rex, notableWork, Bolan's Zip Gun]
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A.
The Gun
"The Gun" is a 1974 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by John Badham and starring Lee Grant.
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B.
The Bullet
The Bullet is a song by Carrie Underwood from her album "Cry Pretty," noted for its emotional storytelling and country-pop style.
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C.
Table Gun
Table Gun is a Philippe Starck–designed table lamp shaped like a firearm, created as part of the provocative Gun Lamp series for the Italian lighting brand Flos.
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D.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is the 1974 debut studio album by American funk and soul band the Commodores, known for its energetic instrumental title track and establishing the group's signature sound.
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E.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is a powerful, improvisational live track by Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, renowned for its searing guitar work and vivid sonic portrayal of the Vietnam War.
- 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: Bolan's Zip Gun Target entity description: Bolan's Zip Gun is a 1975 glam rock album by T. Rex, showcasing Marc Bolan's shift toward a funkier, more stripped-down sound during the later phase of the band's career.
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A.
The Gun
"The Gun" is a 1974 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by John Badham and starring Lee Grant.
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B.
The Bullet
The Bullet is a song by Carrie Underwood from her album "Cry Pretty," noted for its emotional storytelling and country-pop style.
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C.
Table Gun
Table Gun is a Philippe Starck–designed table lamp shaped like a firearm, created as part of the provocative Gun Lamp series for the Italian lighting brand Flos.
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D.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is the 1974 debut studio album by American funk and soul band the Commodores, known for its energetic instrumental title track and establishing the group's signature sound.
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E.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is a powerful, improvisational live track by Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, renowned for its searing guitar work and vivid sonic portrayal of the Vietnam War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | T. Rex ⓘ |
| associatedAct | T. Rex ⓘ |
| associatedPerformer | Marc Bolan ⓘ |
| chronologicalPositionInArtistCareer | late career T. Rex album ⓘ |
| composer | Marc Bolan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresMusicalStyle |
funk-influenced rock
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stripped-down production ⓘ |
| genre |
glam rock
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rock ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
audio album
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vinyl record ⓘ |
| hasType | LP record ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Marc Bolan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
late-period stylistic change in Marc Bolan's work
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shift toward funkier sound for T. Rex ⓘ |
| partOf | T. Rex discography ⓘ |
| performer | T. Rex ⓘ |
| producer | Marc Bolan ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | mid-1970s ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Marc Bolan ⓘ |
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: Bolan's Zip Gun Description of subject: Bolan's Zip Gun is a 1975 glam rock album by T. Rex, showcasing Marc Bolan's shift toward a funkier, more stripped-down sound during the later phase of the band's career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.