Acid Tests
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The Acid Tests were a series of mid-1960s countercultural parties centered on LSD experimentation, multimedia art, and psychedelic music that became iconic events of the American psychedelic movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Acid Tests canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13080232 — 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: Acid Tests Context triple: [Merry Pranksters, knownFor, Acid Tests]
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A.
Acid tests
Acid tests are a series of web browser benchmark tests designed to check compliance with various web standards and rendering correctness.
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B.
The Acid Test
The Acid Test is a contemporary stage play, best known for featuring actress Lydia Wilson in a prominent role.
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C.
Acid
"Acid" is a track from the comedy album "...Is It Something I Said?" by Richard Pryor, showcasing his sharp, boundary-pushing stand-up style.
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D.
Acid2 test
The Acid2 test is a web standards compliance test designed to reveal flaws in web browser rendering engines by using a complex, precisely specified visual layout.
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E.
Acid3 test
The Acid3 test is a web browser benchmark designed to check compliance with web standards, particularly those related to the Document Object Model (DOM), JavaScript, and rendering.
- 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: Acid Tests Target entity description: The Acid Tests were a series of mid-1960s countercultural parties centered on LSD experimentation, multimedia art, and psychedelic music that became iconic events of the American psychedelic movement.
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A.
Acid tests
Acid tests are a series of web browser benchmark tests designed to check compliance with various web standards and rendering correctness.
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B.
The Acid Test
The Acid Test is a contemporary stage play, best known for featuring actress Lydia Wilson in a prominent role.
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C.
Acid
"Acid" is a track from the comedy album "...Is It Something I Said?" by Richard Pryor, showcasing his sharp, boundary-pushing stand-up style.
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D.
Acid2 test
The Acid2 test is a web standards compliance test designed to reveal flaws in web browser rendering engines by using a complex, precisely specified visual layout.
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E.
Acid3 test
The Acid3 test is a web browser benchmark designed to check compliance with web standards, particularly those related to the Document Object Model (DOM), JavaScript, and rendering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LSD party
ⓘ
countercultural event series ⓘ psychedelic event ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Haight-Ashbury
ⓘ
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters ⓘ
linked to:
Merry Pranksters
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalSignificance | iconic events of the American psychedelic movement ⓘ |
| decade | 1960s ⓘ |
| documentedBy | Tom Wolfe ⓘ |
| documentedIn | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ⓘ |
| endTime | 1966 ⓘ |
| featuredBand |
Grateful Dead
ⓘ
The Warlocks ⓘ |
| genre | psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| hasPart |
audience participation
ⓘ
blacklight decorations ⓘ film projections ⓘ improvised music ⓘ light shows ⓘ spontaneous performance art ⓘ tape loops ⓘ |
| influenced |
San Francisco Sound
ⓘ
hippie movement ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Ken Kesey ⓘ |
| location |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ New York City ⓘ Palo Alto ⓘ
linked to:
Palo Alto, California
Portland, Oregon ⓘ
linked to:
Portland
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ San Jose ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
LSD
ⓘ
multimedia art ⓘ psychedelia ⓘ psychedelic music ⓘ |
| movement |
1960s counterculture
ⓘ
American psychedelic movement ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ⓘ |
| organizer |
Ken Kesey
ⓘ
Merry Pranksters ⓘ |
| participant |
Allen Ginsberg
ⓘ
Grateful Dead ⓘ Ken Kesey ⓘ Merry Pranksters ⓘ Neal Cassady ⓘ Owsley Stanley ⓘ Wavy Gravy ⓘ |
| startTime | 1965 ⓘ |
| usedSubstance |
LSD
ⓘ
acid ⓘ |
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: Acid Tests Description of subject: The Acid Tests were a series of mid-1960s countercultural parties centered on LSD experimentation, multimedia art, and psychedelic music that became iconic events of the American psychedelic movement.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.