Rock Hard
E421441
Rock Hard is an early Beastie Boys single that preceded their breakthrough debut album Licensed to Ill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rock Hard canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4208186 — 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: Rock Hard Context triple: [Licensed to Ill, follows, Rock Hard]
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A.
Rock in a Hard Place
Rock in a Hard Place is a 1982 hard rock album by Aerosmith, notable for being recorded during a turbulent period marked by key lineup changes and internal band tensions.
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B.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast in a story about London’s criminal underworld and a high-stakes real estate scam.
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C.
Raising Hell
Raising Hell is a landmark 1986 hip-hop album by Run-D.M.C. that helped bring rap music into the mainstream and solidified the genre’s commercial and cultural impact.
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D.
Rocks Off
"Rocks Off" is a high-energy rock song by The Rolling Stones, best known as the opening track of their acclaimed 1972 album Exile on Main St.
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E.
Rockit
"Rockit" is a groundbreaking 1983 jazz-funk and electro track by Herbie Hancock, widely recognized for its innovative use of turntablism and music video that helped bring scratching into the mainstream.
- 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: Rock Hard Target entity description: Rock Hard is an early Beastie Boys single that preceded their breakthrough debut album Licensed to Ill.
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A.
Rock in a Hard Place
Rock in a Hard Place is a 1982 hard rock album by Aerosmith, notable for being recorded during a turbulent period marked by key lineup changes and internal band tensions.
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B.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast in a story about London’s criminal underworld and a high-stakes real estate scam.
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C.
Raising Hell
Raising Hell is a landmark 1986 hip-hop album by Run-D.M.C. that helped bring rap music into the mainstream and solidified the genre’s commercial and cultural impact.
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D.
Rocks Off
"Rocks Off" is a high-energy rock song by The Rolling Stones, best known as the opening track of their acclaimed 1972 album Exile on Main St.
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E.
Rockit
"Rockit" is a groundbreaking 1983 jazz-funk and electro track by Herbie Hancock, widely recognized for its innovative use of turntablism and music video that helped bring scratching into the mainstream.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Beastie Boys ⓘ |
| chronologicallyBefore | Licensed to Ill ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
hip hop
ⓘ
rap rock ⓘ |
| hasArtistNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasPerformer |
Ad-Rock
ⓘ
MCA ⓘ Mike D ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicalArtist | Beastie Boys ⓘ |
| notableFor | being an early Beastie Boys single ⓘ |
| partOf | Beastie Boys discography ⓘ |
| performer | Beastie Boys ⓘ |
| preceded | Licensed to Ill ⓘ |
| precedesAlbum | Licensed to Ill ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Beastie Boys ⓘ |
| releaseType | single ⓘ |
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: Rock Hard Description of subject: Rock Hard is an early Beastie Boys single that preceded their breakthrough debut album Licensed to Ill.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.