Hyaena
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Hyaena is a 1984 studio album by British post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, noted for its dark, atmospheric sound and the brief tenure of guitarist Robert Smith of The Cure.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3972458 — 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: Hyaena Context triple: [Siouxsie and the Banshees, album, Hyaena]
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Hyena-swine
Hyena-swine is a vicious, part-hyena, part-pig Beast Folk creature in H. G. Wells’s novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau," known for its brutality and defiance of Moreau’s imposed laws.
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Bistahieversor
Bistahieversor is a genus of large, predatory tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now New Mexico, known for its deep skull and powerful jaws.
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Xerus
Xerus is a genus of African ground squirrels known for their diurnal, social behavior and adaptation to open, arid habitats.
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Esek
Esek is a masculine given name most notably borne by Esek Hopkins, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
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striped hyena
The striped hyena is a medium-sized, nocturnal scavenging carnivore native to parts of Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent, recognizable by its vertical body stripes and large mane.
- 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: Hyaena Target entity description: Hyaena is a 1984 studio album by British post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, noted for its dark, atmospheric sound and the brief tenure of guitarist Robert Smith of The Cure.
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A.
Hyena-swine
Hyena-swine is a vicious, part-hyena, part-pig Beast Folk creature in H. G. Wells’s novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau," known for its brutality and defiance of Moreau’s imposed laws.
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B.
Bistahieversor
Bistahieversor is a genus of large, predatory tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now New Mexico, known for its deep skull and powerful jaws.
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C.
Xerus
Xerus is a genus of African ground squirrels known for their diurnal, social behavior and adaptation to open, arid habitats.
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D.
Esek
Esek is a masculine given name most notably borne by Esek Hopkins, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
striped hyena
The striped hyena is a medium-sized, nocturnal scavenging carnivore native to parts of Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent, recognizable by its vertical body stripes and large mane.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Hyaena Description of subject: Hyaena is a 1984 studio album by British post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, noted for its dark, atmospheric sound and the brief tenure of guitarist Robert Smith of The Cure.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.