Tricky
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Tricky is a pioneering English trip-hop musician and producer known for his dark, atmospheric sound and influential work on Massive Attack’s early records and his solo album "Maxinquaye."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tricky canonical | 12 |
| Tricky - Black Steel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3972478 — 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: Tricky Context triple: [Siouxsie and the Banshees, influenced, Tricky]
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A.
Troublemaker
Troublemaker is a card in the Uno game that typically introduces disruptive or challenging effects to alter normal gameplay.
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B.
Trouble
Trouble is the debut studio album by Senegalese-American singer Akon, featuring hit singles that helped launch his international career.
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C.
Trouble
Trouble is the 1978 debut studio album by British hard rock band Whitesnake, showcasing their early blues-rock sound and establishing them on the rock scene.
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D.
Chingy
Chingy is an American rapper and actor best known for his early-2000s hit singles like "Right Thurr" and his association with the Disturbing tha Peace label.
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E.
Twisted
Twisted is a track from Joni Mitchell’s acclaimed 1974 album "Court and Spark," known for its jazzy style and witty, sardonic lyrics.
- 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: Tricky Target entity description: Tricky is a pioneering English trip-hop musician and producer known for his dark, atmospheric sound and influential work on Massive Attack’s early records and his solo album "Maxinquaye."
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A.
Troublemaker
Troublemaker is a card in the Uno game that typically introduces disruptive or challenging effects to alter normal gameplay.
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B.
Trouble
Trouble is the debut studio album by Senegalese-American singer Akon, featuring hit singles that helped launch his international career.
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C.
Trouble
Trouble is the 1978 debut studio album by British hard rock band Whitesnake, showcasing their early blues-rock sound and establishing them on the rock scene.
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D.
Chingy
Chingy is an American rapper and actor best known for his early-2000s hit singles like "Right Thurr" and his association with the Disturbing tha Peace label.
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E.
Twisted
Twisted is a track from Joni Mitchell’s acclaimed 1974 album "Court and Spark," known for its jazzy style and witty, sardonic lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Tricky Description of subject: Tricky is a pioneering English trip-hop musician and producer known for his dark, atmospheric sound and influential work on Massive Attack’s early records and his solo album "Maxinquaye."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tricky - Black Steel