Patti Smith Group
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Patti Smith Group was an influential American rock band of the 1970s, led by punk poet and singer Patti Smith and known for blending poetic lyrics with raw, energetic rock music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patti Smith Group canonical | 10 |
| Patti Smith Group members | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3972528 — 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: Patti Smith Group Context triple: [Patti Smith, memberOf, Patti Smith Group]
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A.
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was a pioneering American rock band from the 1960s known for its experimental sound, avant-garde sensibilities, and profound influence on punk, alternative, and indie music.
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B.
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Richard Hell and the Voidoids were a pioneering New York punk rock band of the mid-1970s, known for their influential role in shaping the sound and style of early punk music.
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C.
The Jim Carroll Band
The Jim Carroll Band was a punk rock group formed by poet and author Jim Carroll, best known for their 1980 album "Catholic Boy" and its hit single "People Who Died."
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D.
The Walkmen
The Walkmen are an American indie rock band known for their atmospheric sound, vintage instrumentation, and critically acclaimed albums like "Bows + Arrows."
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E.
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth was an influential American alternative rock band known for its experimental guitar tunings, noise-driven sound, and pivotal role in the 1980s–1990s indie and underground music scenes.
- 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: Patti Smith Group Target entity description: Patti Smith Group was an influential American rock band of the 1970s, led by punk poet and singer Patti Smith and known for blending poetic lyrics with raw, energetic rock music.
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A.
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was a pioneering American rock band from the 1960s known for its experimental sound, avant-garde sensibilities, and profound influence on punk, alternative, and indie music.
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B.
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Richard Hell and the Voidoids were a pioneering New York punk rock band of the mid-1970s, known for their influential role in shaping the sound and style of early punk music.
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C.
The Jim Carroll Band
The Jim Carroll Band was a punk rock group formed by poet and author Jim Carroll, best known for their 1980 album "Catholic Boy" and its hit single "People Who Died."
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D.
The Walkmen
The Walkmen are an American indie rock band known for their atmospheric sound, vintage instrumentation, and critically acclaimed albums like "Bows + Arrows."
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E.
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth was an influential American alternative rock band known for its experimental guitar tunings, noise-driven sound, and pivotal role in the 1980s–1990s indie and underground music scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
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rock band ⓘ song ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| activePeriodEnd | 1979 ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | 1974 ⓘ |
| album |
Easter
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Horses ⓘ Radio Ethiopia ⓘ Wave ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Blue Öyster Cult
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The MC5 ⓘ
surface form:
MC5
Patti Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Ramones ⓘ Talking Heads ⓘ Television (band) ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Horses ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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garage rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ new wave ⓘ poetry rock ⓘ proto-punk ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Bruce Brody
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Fred "Sonic" Smith ⓘ Ivan Král ⓘ Jay Dee Daugherty ⓘ Lenny Kaye ⓘ Oliver Ray ⓘ Patti Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Sohl ⓘ |
| influenced |
alternative rock artists
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punk rock bands ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Patti Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
CBGB scene
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New York punk scene ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending poetic lyrics with rock music
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influence on punk rock ⓘ |
| notableSong | Because the Night ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Easter
ⓘ
Horses ⓘ |
| performanceVenue | CBGB ⓘ |
| performer | Patti Smith Group self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
1975
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1976 ⓘ 1978 ⓘ 1979 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Arista Records ⓘ |
| writer |
Bruce Springsteen
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Patti Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Patti Smith Group Description of subject: Patti Smith Group was an influential American rock band of the 1970s, led by punk poet and singer Patti Smith and known for blending poetic lyrics with raw, energetic rock music.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Patti Smith Group members
subject surface form:
Horses