EVOL
E427319
EVOL is a 1986 experimental rock album by Sonic Youth that marked a pivotal shift toward their distinctive blend of noise, melody, and avant-garde song structures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EVOL canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4273102 — 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: EVOL Context triple: [Sonic Youth, notableWork, EVOL]
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A.
Esv
Esv is the official Dutch railway station code used to identify Eindhoven Strijp-S station in the Netherlands.
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EGVA
EGVA is the ICAO airport code for RAF Fairford, a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England used primarily by the United States Air Force for bomber and airlift operations.
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C.
EVB
EVB (Edge Virtual Bridging) is an IEEE networking standard that defines mechanisms for managing and integrating virtualized network interfaces on edge switches and servers in data center environments.
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EVA
EVA is the ICAO airline designator for EVA Air, a major Taiwanese international carrier based in Taoyuan.
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E.
EGVN
EGVN is the ICAO airport code for RAF Brize Norton, a major Royal Air Force transport and air-to-air refuelling base in Oxfordshire, England.
- 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: EVOL Target entity description: EVOL is a 1986 experimental rock album by Sonic Youth that marked a pivotal shift toward their distinctive blend of noise, melody, and avant-garde song structures.
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A.
Esv
Esv is the official Dutch railway station code used to identify Eindhoven Strijp-S station in the Netherlands.
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B.
EGVA
EGVA is the ICAO airport code for RAF Fairford, a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England used primarily by the United States Air Force for bomber and airlift operations.
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C.
EVB
EVB (Edge Virtual Bridging) is an IEEE networking standard that defines mechanisms for managing and integrating virtualized network interfaces on edge switches and servers in data center environments.
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D.
EVA
EVA is the ICAO airline designator for EVA Air, a major Taiwanese international carrier based in Taoyuan.
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E.
EGVN
EGVN is the ICAO airport code for RAF Brize Norton, a major Royal Air Force transport and air-to-air refuelling base in Oxfordshire, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental rock album
ⓘ
rock album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Expressway to Your Skull
ⓘ
linked to:
Expressway to Yr Skull
|
| artist | Sonic Youth ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| drummerOnAlbum | Steve Shelley ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
Kim Gordon
ⓘ
Lee Ranaldo ⓘ Steve Shelley ⓘ Thurston Moore ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
experimental rock ⓘ noise rock ⓘ |
| hasContributor |
Kim Gordon
ⓘ
Lee Ranaldo ⓘ Steve Shelley ⓘ Thurston Moore ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
compact disc
ⓘ
digital download ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Death to Our Friends
ⓘ
Expressway to Yr Skull ⓘ Green Light ⓘ In the Kingdom #19 ⓘ Marilyn Moore ⓘ Secret Girls ⓘ Shadow of a Doubt ⓘ Starpower ⓘ Tom Violence ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
noise rock ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 36:52 ⓘ |
| movement | American underground rock ⓘ |
| nextWork | Sister ⓘ |
| nextWorkReleaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integrating noise experimentation with accessible melodies
ⓘ
marking Sonic Youth's transition toward more melodic song structures ⓘ |
| performer | Sonic Youth ⓘ |
| previousWork | Bad Moon Rising ⓘ |
| previousWorkReleaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| producer |
Martin Bisi
ⓘ
Sonic Youth ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1985 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | SST Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1986-05-01 ⓘ |
| significance | first Sonic Youth album to feature Steve Shelley on drums ⓘ |
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: EVOL Description of subject: EVOL is a 1986 experimental rock album by Sonic Youth that marked a pivotal shift toward their distinctive blend of noise, melody, and avant-garde song structures.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.