Flipper
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Flipper is an influential American punk rock band from San Francisco, known for their slow, heavy, and noisy sound that helped shape the grunge and alternative rock movements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flipper canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16499795 — 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: Flipper Context triple: [Krist Novoselic, associatedBand, Flipper]
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A.
Flipper
Flipper is a 1996 family adventure film starring Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan about a boy who befriends a dolphin in the Florida Keys.
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B.
Flipper Purify
Flipper Purify is the successful African-American architect and central protagonist in Spike Lee’s film "Jungle Fever," whose interracial affair drives the movie’s exploration of race, desire, and social tension.
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C.
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco the Dolphin is a classic action-adventure video game series starring a time-traveling dolphin exploring underwater worlds and solving environmental puzzles.
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D.
Tark the Shark
Tark the Shark is the famous nickname of Hall of Fame college basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, known for his successful and often controversial tenure at UNLV.
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E.
Hopper
Hopper is a surname most famously associated with Edward Hopper, the American realist painter known for his evocative depictions of modern urban life and isolation.
- 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: Flipper Target entity description: Flipper is an influential American punk rock band from San Francisco, known for their slow, heavy, and noisy sound that helped shape the grunge and alternative rock movements.
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A.
Flipper
Flipper is a 1996 family adventure film starring Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan about a boy who befriends a dolphin in the Florida Keys.
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B.
Flipper Purify
Flipper Purify is the successful African-American architect and central protagonist in Spike Lee’s film "Jungle Fever," whose interracial affair drives the movie’s exploration of race, desire, and social tension.
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C.
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco the Dolphin is a classic action-adventure video game series starring a time-traveling dolphin exploring underwater worlds and solving environmental puzzles.
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D.
Tark the Shark
Tark the Shark is the famous nickname of Hall of Fame college basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, known for his successful and often controversial tenure at UNLV.
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E.
Hopper
Hopper is a surname most famously associated with Edward Hopper, the American realist painter known for his evocative depictions of modern urban life and isolation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.