Bone Machine
E433018
Bone Machine is a critically acclaimed 1992 album by Tom Waits known for its dark, percussive sound and apocalyptic, death-obsessed themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bone Machine canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4358827 — 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: Bone Machine Context triple: [Tom Waits, notableAlbum, Bone Machine]
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A.
Bone Machine
"Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
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B.
Machina
Machina is a local government area and town in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, near the border with Niger.
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C.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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D.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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E.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
- 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: Bone Machine Target entity description: Bone Machine is a critically acclaimed 1992 album by Tom Waits known for its dark, percussive sound and apocalyptic, death-obsessed themes.
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A.
Bone Machine
"Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
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B.
Machina
Machina is a local government area and town in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, near the border with Niger.
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C.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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D.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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E.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Tom Waits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| describedAs |
apocalyptic
ⓘ
death-obsessed ⓘ |
| featuresArtist | Keith Richards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Black Rider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
avant-garde ⓘ blues rock ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverArt | Bone Machine album cover ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
A Little Rain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
All Stripped Down NERFINISHED ⓘ Black Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ Dirt in the Ground NERFINISHED ⓘ Earth Died Screaming NERFINISHED ⓘ Goin’ Out West NERFINISHED ⓘ I Don’t Wanna Grow Up NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Colosseum NERFINISHED ⓘ Jesus Gonna Be Here NERFINISHED ⓘ Let Me Get Up on It NERFINISHED ⓘ Murder in the Red Barn NERFINISHED ⓘ Such a Scream NERFINISHED ⓘ That Feel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ocean Doesn’t Want Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Whistle Down the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ Who Are You ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableTrack |
Goin’ Out West
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up NERFINISHED ⓘ That Feel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Tom Waits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInDiscography | Tom Waits’ tenth studio album ⓘ |
| precededBy | Franks Wild Years NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Kathleen Brennan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Waits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Prairie Sun Recording Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Island Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1992-09-08 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| soundCharacteristic |
dark
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minimalist arrangements ⓘ percussive ⓘ raw production ⓘ |
| theme |
apocalypse
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death ⓘ despair ⓘ mortality ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
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: Bone Machine Description of subject: Bone Machine is a critically acclaimed 1992 album by Tom Waits known for its dark, percussive sound and apocalyptic, death-obsessed themes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.