Howlin’ Mad
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Howlin’ Mad was the famous nickname of U.S. Marine Corps General Holland M. Smith, a prominent commander in World War II Pacific amphibious operations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howlin’ Mad canonical | 2 |
| Howlin' Mad | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3225347 — 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: Howlin’ Mad Context triple: [Holland M. Smith, nickname, Howlin’ Mad]
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A.
Raising Hell
Raising Hell is a landmark 1986 hip-hop album by Run-D.M.C. that helped bring rap music into the mainstream and solidified the genre’s commercial and cultural impact.
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B.
Riff-Raff
Riff-Raff is a 1991 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows the struggles of construction workers living on the margins of society.
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C.
Rowdy Rebel
Rowdy Rebel is an American rapper from Brooklyn known for his close collaboration with Bobby Shmurda and his role in the GS9 rap collective.
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D.
Let 'Em In
"Let 'Em In" is a 1976 soft rock song by Paul McCartney and Wings, known for its laid-back groove, prominent use of bells, and lyrics that name-check various friends and family members.
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E.
Big Black
Big Black was an influential American noise rock band of the 1980s known for its abrasive sound, drum machines, and confrontational lyrics, led by guitarist and vocalist Steve Albini.
- 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: Howlin’ Mad Target entity description: Howlin’ Mad was the famous nickname of U.S. Marine Corps General Holland M. Smith, a prominent commander in World War II Pacific amphibious operations.
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A.
Raising Hell
Raising Hell is a landmark 1986 hip-hop album by Run-D.M.C. that helped bring rap music into the mainstream and solidified the genre’s commercial and cultural impact.
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B.
Riff-Raff
Riff-Raff is a 1991 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows the struggles of construction workers living on the margins of society.
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C.
Rowdy Rebel
Rowdy Rebel is an American rapper from Brooklyn known for his close collaboration with Bobby Shmurda and his role in the GS9 rap collective.
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D.
Let 'Em In
"Let 'Em In" is a 1976 soft rock song by Paul McCartney and Wings, known for its laid-back groove, prominent use of bells, and lyrics that name-check various friends and family members.
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E.
Big Black
Big Black was an influential American noise rock band of the 1980s known for its abrasive sound, drum machines, and confrontational lyrics, led by guitarist and vocalist Steve Albini.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: Howlin’ Mad Description of subject: Howlin’ Mad was the famous nickname of U.S. Marine Corps General Holland M. Smith, a prominent commander in World War II Pacific amphibious operations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Holland M. Smith
subject surface form:
Holland M. Smith
this entity surface form:
Howlin' Mad