Blondie
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Blondie is an American rock band formed in the mid-1970s, best known for pioneering the new wave and punk scenes with hits like "Heart of Glass" and "Call Me."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blondie canonical | 91 |
| Blondie (band) | 1 |
| Blondie 4(0) Ever | 1 |
| Blondie single "Heart of Glass" | 1 |
| Blondie – early recordings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T985282 — 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: Blondie Context triple: [Ramones, associatedAct, Blondie]
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A.
Dee Dee Ramone and the Spikey Tops
Dee Dee Ramone and the Spikey Tops was a short-lived punk rock project led by Ramones bassist and songwriter Dee Dee Ramone, showcasing his post-Ramones material.
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B.
The New York Dolls
The New York Dolls were a pioneering 1970s New York rock band whose flamboyant style and raw sound helped lay the groundwork for punk rock.
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C.
Ramones
Ramones were a pioneering American punk rock band from New York City, widely credited with helping launch the punk movement in the 1970s through their fast, stripped-down songs and iconic style.
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D.
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys were a pioneering New York City hip hop group known for their genre-blending sound, irreverent humor, and influential albums like "Licensed to Ill" and "Paul's Boutique."
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E.
Gang of Four
The Gang of Four was a powerful political faction in China, led by Jiang Qing and three close allies, that played a key role in the Cultural Revolution and was later blamed for its excesses.
- 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: Blondie Target entity description: Blondie is an American rock band formed in the mid-1970s, best known for pioneering the new wave and punk scenes with hits like "Heart of Glass" and "Call Me."
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A.
Dee Dee Ramone and the Spikey Tops
Dee Dee Ramone and the Spikey Tops was a short-lived punk rock project led by Ramones bassist and songwriter Dee Dee Ramone, showcasing his post-Ramones material.
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B.
The New York Dolls
The New York Dolls were a pioneering 1970s New York rock band whose flamboyant style and raw sound helped lay the groundwork for punk rock.
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C.
Ramones
Ramones were a pioneering American punk rock band from New York City, widely credited with helping launch the punk movement in the 1970s through their fast, stripped-down songs and iconic style.
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D.
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys were a pioneering New York City hip hop group known for their genre-blending sound, irreverent humor, and influential albums like "Licensed to Ill" and "Paul's Boutique."
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E.
Gang of Four
The Gang of Four was a powerful political faction in China, led by Jiang Qing and three close allies, that played a key role in the Cultural Revolution and was later blamed for its excesses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: Blondie Description of subject: Blondie is an American rock band formed in the mid-1970s, best known for pioneering the new wave and punk scenes with hits like "Heart of Glass" and "Call Me."
Referenced by (95)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.