The Bends
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The Bends is Radiohead’s 1995 breakthrough album that shifted the band from grunge-influenced rock toward a more expansive, emotionally intense alternative rock sound.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Bends canonical | 36 |
| The Bends (1995 studio album) | 1 |
| The Bends (song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010089 — 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: The Bends Context triple: [Radiohead, notableWork, The Bends]
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A.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds is the rock band formed by former Oasis guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher, known for its melodic, anthemic sound and successful solo releases.
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B.
Definitely Maybe
"Definitely Maybe" is the 1994 debut studio album by English rock band Oasis, widely regarded as a defining record of the Britpop era.
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C.
Backspacer
Backspacer is a 2009 studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam that showcases a more concise, melodic, and upbeat sound compared to much of their earlier work.
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D.
Madness
Madness is a British ska and pop band, formed in London in the late 1970s, known for hits like "Our House" and "Baggy Trousers" and for their energetic, humorous style.
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E.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a 1975 studio album by Joni Mitchell that blends jazz, pop, and experimental elements in a series of lyrically complex, character-driven songs.
- 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 Bends Target entity description: The Bends is Radiohead’s 1995 breakthrough album that shifted the band from grunge-influenced rock toward a more expansive, emotionally intense alternative rock sound.
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A.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds is the rock band formed by former Oasis guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher, known for its melodic, anthemic sound and successful solo releases.
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B.
Definitely Maybe
"Definitely Maybe" is the 1994 debut studio album by English rock band Oasis, widely regarded as a defining record of the Britpop era.
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C.
Backspacer
Backspacer is a 2009 studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam that showcases a more concise, melodic, and upbeat sound compared to much of their earlier work.
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D.
Madness
Madness is a British ska and pop band, formed in London in the late 1970s, known for hits like "Our House" and "Baggy Trousers" and for their energetic, humorous style.
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E.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a 1975 studio album by Joni Mitchell that blends jazz, pop, and experimental elements in a series of lyrically complex, character-driven songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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 Bends Description of subject: The Bends is Radiohead’s 1995 breakthrough album that shifted the band from grunge-influenced rock toward a more expansive, emotionally intense alternative rock sound.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.