Goo Goo Dolls
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Goo Goo Dolls are an American rock band best known for their melodic alternative rock sound and hit singles like "Iris" and "Slide."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goo Goo Dolls canonical | 14 |
| The Goo Goo Dolls | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2365874 — 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: Goo Goo Dolls Context triple: [Muskegon Summer Celebration, notablePerformer, Goo Goo Dolls]
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A.
Gin Blossoms
Gin Blossoms are an American rock band best known for their melodic jangle-pop sound and 1990s hits like "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You."
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B.
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band best known for late-1990s and early-2000s hits like "Push," "3AM," and "Unwell," led by singer-songwriter Rob Thomas.
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C.
Weezer
Weezer is an American rock band known for its catchy power-pop sound, self-titled “Blue Album,” and influential role in 1990s alternative rock.
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D.
Counting Crows
Counting Crows is an American rock band, formed in the early 1990s, known for their introspective lyrics and hits like "Mr. Jones" and "Accidentally in Love."
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E.
3 Doors Down
3 Doors Down is an American rock band best known for their early-2000s hits like "Kryptonite" and "Here Without You."
- 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: Goo Goo Dolls Target entity description: Goo Goo Dolls are an American rock band best known for their melodic alternative rock sound and hit singles like "Iris" and "Slide."
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A.
Gin Blossoms
Gin Blossoms are an American rock band best known for their melodic jangle-pop sound and 1990s hits like "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You."
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B.
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band best known for late-1990s and early-2000s hits like "Push," "3AM," and "Unwell," led by singer-songwriter Rob Thomas.
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C.
Weezer
Weezer is an American rock band known for its catchy power-pop sound, self-titled “Blue Album,” and influential role in 1990s alternative rock.
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D.
Counting Crows
Counting Crows is an American rock band, formed in the early 1990s, known for their introspective lyrics and hits like "Mr. Jones" and "Accidentally in Love."
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E.
3 Doors Down
3 Doors Down is an American rock band best known for their early-2000s hits like "Kryptonite" and "Here Without You."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Goo Goo Dolls Description of subject: Goo Goo Dolls are an American rock band best known for their melodic alternative rock sound and hit singles like "Iris" and "Slide."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Muskegon Summer Celebration
this entity surface form:
The Goo Goo Dolls