The Guess Who
E442048
The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band best known for 1960s and 1970s hits like "American Woman" and "These Eyes."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Guess Who canonical | 12 |
| Bachman-Turner Overdrive | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4454501 — 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 Guess Who Context triple: [Hey Joe, hasNotableCoverArtist, The Guess Who]
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Little River Band
Little River Band is an Australian rock group formed in the mid-1970s, best known for its soft rock and adult contemporary hits that achieved significant international success.
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B.
The Who
The Who are an influential English rock band formed in the 1960s, renowned for their energetic performances, pioneering use of rock opera, and classic songs like "My Generation" and "Baba O'Riley."
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C.
The Hollies
The Hollies are an English pop/rock band formed in the early 1960s, best known for their distinctive vocal harmonies and hits like "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress."
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D.
Ringo's All Starr Band
Ringo's All Starr Band is a touring supergroup formed by former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, featuring a rotating lineup of famous rock musicians performing both his songs and their own hits.
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E.
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer best known for hits like "Summer of '69" and "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You."
- 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 Guess Who Target entity description: The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band best known for 1960s and 1970s hits like "American Woman" and "These Eyes."
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A.
Little River Band
Little River Band is an Australian rock group formed in the mid-1970s, best known for its soft rock and adult contemporary hits that achieved significant international success.
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B.
The Who
The Who are an influential English rock band formed in the 1960s, renowned for their energetic performances, pioneering use of rock opera, and classic songs like "My Generation" and "Baba O'Riley."
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C.
The Hollies
The Hollies are an English pop/rock band formed in the early 1960s, best known for their distinctive vocal harmonies and hits like "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress."
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D.
Ringo's All Starr Band
Ringo's All Starr Band is a touring supergroup formed by former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, featuring a rotating lineup of famous rock musicians performing both his songs and their own hits.
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E.
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer best known for hits like "Summer of '69" and "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (128)
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 Guess Who Description of subject: The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band best known for 1960s and 1970s hits like "American Woman" and "These Eyes."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Guess Who