Ergot
E417069
Ergot is a track from the influential 1987 noise rock album "Songs About Fucking" by the band Big Black.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ergot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161263 — 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: Ergot Context triple: [Songs About Fucking, hasTrack, Ergot]
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A.
Claviceps purpurea
Claviceps purpurea is a parasitic fungus best known for infecting cereal grains like rye and producing toxic ergot alkaloids that can cause ergotism in humans and animals.
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B.
Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum is the opium poppy, a flowering plant cultivated both for its edible seeds and for producing opiates such as morphine and codeine.
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C.
Sahl Hasheesh
Sahl Hasheesh is a modern Red Sea coastal resort town in Egypt known for its luxury hotels, beaches, and diving and snorkeling sites.
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D.
Aconitum
Aconitum is a genus of highly toxic flowering plants, often called monkshood or wolfsbane, known for their hood-shaped blue to purple flowers and historical use as poisons.
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E.
Corydalis
Corydalis is a genus of flowering plants known for their delicate, tubular blossoms and finely divided foliage, commonly found in temperate regions and often grown as ornamentals.
- 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: Ergot Target entity description: Ergot is a track from the influential 1987 noise rock album "Songs About Fucking" by the band Big Black.
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A.
Claviceps purpurea
Claviceps purpurea is a parasitic fungus best known for infecting cereal grains like rye and producing toxic ergot alkaloids that can cause ergotism in humans and animals.
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B.
Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum is the opium poppy, a flowering plant cultivated both for its edible seeds and for producing opiates such as morphine and codeine.
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C.
Sahl Hasheesh
Sahl Hasheesh is a modern Red Sea coastal resort town in Egypt known for its luxury hotels, beaches, and diving and snorkeling sites.
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D.
Aconitum
Aconitum is a genus of highly toxic flowering plants, often called monkshood or wolfsbane, known for their hood-shaped blue to purple flowers and historical use as poisons.
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E.
Corydalis
Corydalis is a genus of flowering plants known for their delicate, tubular blossoms and finely divided foliage, commonly found in temperate regions and often grown as ornamentals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Songs About Fucking ⓘ |
| artist | Big Black ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dave Riley
ⓘ
Santiago Durango ⓘ Steve Albini ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| followsInAlbum | preceding track on Songs About Fucking ⓘ |
| genre |
noise rock
ⓘ
post-hardcore ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
compact disc
ⓘ
digital audio ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
abrasive guitar sound
ⓘ
distorted bass ⓘ drum machine percussion ⓘ |
| hasType | studio track ⓘ |
| includedIn | discography of Big Black ⓘ |
| isTrackOn | Songs About Fucking ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Songs About Fucking ⓘ |
| performer | Big Black ⓘ |
| precedesInAlbum | following track on Songs About Fucking ⓘ |
| producer | Steve Albini ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Big Black ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Big Black ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Touch and Go Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| writer | Steve Albini ⓘ |
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: Ergot Description of subject: Ergot is a track from the influential 1987 noise rock album "Songs About Fucking" by the band Big Black.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.