The Time
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The Time is a funk and R&B band from Minneapolis best known for its close association with Prince and its prominent role in the early 1980s Minneapolis sound.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Time canonical | 45 |
| The Time (band in Purple Rain) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010925 — 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 Time Context triple: [Prince, associatedAct, The Time]
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A.
Eternity
"Eternity" is a contemplative, atmospheric track from Vangelis’s score for the film *1492: Conquest of Paradise*, known for its lush synthesizer textures and evocative, cinematic mood.
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B.
Time for Three
Time for Three is a genre-blending string trio known for fusing classical music with jazz, pop, and other contemporary styles in highly energetic performances.
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C.
Until the End of Time
"Until the End of Time" is a posthumous double album by American rapper Tupac Shakur, featuring previously unreleased material and remixes that further cemented his legacy in hip-hop.
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D.
What a World
"What a World" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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E.
Till the End of Time
"Till the End of Time" is a song featured on the album *Emotions*.
- 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 Time Target entity description: The Time is a funk and R&B band from Minneapolis best known for its close association with Prince and its prominent role in the early 1980s Minneapolis sound.
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A.
Eternity
"Eternity" is a contemplative, atmospheric track from Vangelis’s score for the film *1492: Conquest of Paradise*, known for its lush synthesizer textures and evocative, cinematic mood.
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B.
Time for Three
Time for Three is a genre-blending string trio known for fusing classical music with jazz, pop, and other contemporary styles in highly energetic performances.
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C.
Until the End of Time
"Until the End of Time" is a posthumous double album by American rapper Tupac Shakur, featuring previously unreleased material and remixes that further cemented his legacy in hip-hop.
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D.
What a World
"What a World" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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E.
Till the End of Time
"Till the End of Time" is a song featured on the album *Emotions*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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 Time Description of subject: The Time is a funk and R&B band from Minneapolis best known for its close association with Prince and its prominent role in the early 1980s Minneapolis sound.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
minneapolis sound
subject linked to:
Linn LM-1 drum machine
subject linked to:
Prince – vocals, instruments, production
subject linked to:
The Hookers (early concept name)