Placebo
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Placebo is a British alternative rock band known for its androgynous image, darkly emotional lyrics, and fusion of glam, punk, and electronic influences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Placebo canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4124418 — 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: Placebo Context triple: [Pixies, influenced, Placebo]
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A.
Panacea
Panacea is the Greek goddess of universal remedy and healing, associated with cures for all diseases.
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B.
Meantime
Meantime is a 1983 British television film directed by Mike Leigh that portrays the bleak lives of a working-class family in Thatcher-era London.
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C.
Comedown
"Comedown" is a 1995 grunge-influenced rock song by Bush, known for its brooding lyrics and Gavin Rossdale's distinctive vocal performance.
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D.
I Made a Place
"I Made a Place" is a 2019 folk and country-influenced studio album by American singer-songwriter Bonnie "Prince" Billy, noted for its warm, reflective songwriting and intimate arrangements.
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E.
Dopium
Dopium is the debut solo studio album by Wu-Tang Clan member U-God, showcasing his gritty lyrical style over dark, hard-hitting production.
- 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: Placebo Target entity description: Placebo is a British alternative rock band known for its androgynous image, darkly emotional lyrics, and fusion of glam, punk, and electronic influences.
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A.
Panacea
Panacea is the Greek goddess of universal remedy and healing, associated with cures for all diseases.
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B.
Meantime
Meantime is a 1983 British television film directed by Mike Leigh that portrays the bleak lives of a working-class family in Thatcher-era London.
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C.
Comedown
"Comedown" is a 1995 grunge-influenced rock song by Bush, known for its brooding lyrics and Gavin Rossdale's distinctive vocal performance.
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D.
I Made a Place
"I Made a Place" is a 2019 folk and country-influenced studio album by American singer-songwriter Bonnie "Prince" Billy, noted for its warm, reflective songwriting and intimate arrangements.
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E.
Dopium
Dopium is the debut solo studio album by Wu-Tang Clan member U-God, showcasing his gritty lyrical style over dark, hard-hitting production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Placebo Description of subject: Placebo is a British alternative rock band known for its androgynous image, darkly emotional lyrics, and fusion of glam, punk, and electronic influences.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.