The Idle Race
E435486
The Idle Race was a late-1960s British psychedelic pop/rock band best known as an early vehicle for songwriter and musician Jeff Lynne before his success with Electric Light Orchestra.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Idle Race canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4373078 — 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: The Idle Race Context triple: [Jeff Lynne, memberOf, The Idle Race]
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A.
Province 5
Province 5 is one of the administrative provinces of Nepal, located in the western part of the country and known for its diverse geography and cultural heritage.
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B.
Empire Games
Empire Games is the former name of the international multi-sport event now known as the Commonwealth Games, featuring athletes from countries of the British Empire and later the Commonwealth.
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C.
Province 8
Province 8 is an ecclesiastical province of the Episcopal Church in the United States that encompasses dioceses in the western and northwestern regions, including Alaska.
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D.
Empire Builder
Empire Builder is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train route that runs between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, known for its scenic journey through the northern United States.
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E.
Idle Hands
Idle Hands is a 1999 horror-comedy film about a lazy teenager whose possessed hand goes on a murderous rampage.
- 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: The Idle Race Target entity description: The Idle Race was a late-1960s British psychedelic pop/rock band best known as an early vehicle for songwriter and musician Jeff Lynne before his success with Electric Light Orchestra.
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A.
Province 5
Province 5 is one of the administrative provinces of Nepal, located in the western part of the country and known for its diverse geography and cultural heritage.
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B.
Empire Games
Empire Games is the former name of the international multi-sport event now known as the Commonwealth Games, featuring athletes from countries of the British Empire and later the Commonwealth.
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C.
Province 8
Province 8 is an ecclesiastical province of the Episcopal Church in the United States that encompasses dioceses in the western and northwestern regions, including Alaska.
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D.
Empire Builder
Empire Builder is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train route that runs between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, known for its scenic journey through the northern United States.
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E.
Idle Hands
Idle Hands is a 1999 horror-comedy film about a lazy teenager whose possessed hand goes on a murderous rampage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
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psychedelic pop band ⓘ rock band ⓘ |
| activePeriodEnd | 1972 ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | 1966 ⓘ |
| album |
Idle Race
NERFINISHED
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The Birthday Party NERFINISHED ⓘ Time Is NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Birmingham
NERFINISHED
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England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formedIn | Birmingham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
pop rock
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psychedelic pop ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasMemberRole |
Dave Pritchard – guitarist
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greg Masters – bassist NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Lynne – guitarist NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Lynne – songwriter NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Lynne – vocalist NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Spencer – drummer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFact | known as an early vehicle for Jeff Lynne before his success with Electric Light Orchestra ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor | Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStyleCharacteristic |
elaborate studio production
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melodic pop songwriting ⓘ whimsical lyrics ⓘ |
| influenced | Electric Light Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Dave Pritchard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greg Masters NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Lynne NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Days of Broken Arrows
NERFINISHED
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Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree NERFINISHED ⓘ The Birthday Party NERFINISHED ⓘ The Skeleton and the Roundabout NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Liberty Records
NERFINISHED
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Parlophone ⓘ |
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: The Idle Race Description of subject: The Idle Race was a late-1960s British psychedelic pop/rock band best known as an early vehicle for songwriter and musician Jeff Lynne before his success with Electric Light Orchestra.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.