Northern Lights – Southern Cross
E442060
Northern Lights – Southern Cross is a 1975 studio album by The Band, known for songs like "Ophelia" and "It Makes No Difference" and for being their first album recorded entirely at their Shangri-La studio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northern Lights – Southern Cross canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4454800 — 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: Northern Lights – Southern Cross Context triple: [Robbie Robertson, notableWork, Northern Lights – Southern Cross]
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A.
Northern Lights
Northern Lights is the first novel in Philip Pullman’s acclaimed His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy, introducing Lyra Belacqua and her journey through parallel worlds.
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B.
Northern Star
Northern Star was a prominent 19th-century British Chartist newspaper that served as a key voice and organizing tool for the working-class political reform movement.
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C.
Southern Cross
Southern Cross is a prominent constellation in the southern sky, easily recognized by its cross-shaped pattern of stars and often used for navigation.
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D.
Taranga
Taranga is a figure in Polynesian mythology known as the mother of the culture hero and demigod Māui.
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E.
Trail of Lights
Trail of Lights is a large annual holiday lights festival in Austin, Texas, featuring elaborate light displays, themed attractions, and seasonal entertainment.
- 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: Northern Lights – Southern Cross Target entity description: Northern Lights – Southern Cross is a 1975 studio album by The Band, known for songs like "Ophelia" and "It Makes No Difference" and for being their first album recorded entirely at their Shangri-La studio.
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A.
Northern Lights
Northern Lights is the first novel in Philip Pullman’s acclaimed His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy, introducing Lyra Belacqua and her journey through parallel worlds.
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B.
Northern Star
Northern Star was a prominent 19th-century British Chartist newspaper that served as a key voice and organizing tool for the working-class political reform movement.
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C.
Southern Cross
Southern Cross is a prominent constellation in the southern sky, easily recognized by its cross-shaped pattern of stars and often used for navigation.
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D.
Taranga
Taranga is a figure in Polynesian mythology known as the mother of the culture hero and demigod Māui.
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E.
Trail of Lights
Trail of Lights is a large annual holiday lights festival in Austin, Texas, featuring elaborate light displays, themed attractions, and seasonal entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | The Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogCode | Capitol ST-11440 ⓘ |
| composer | Robbie Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada–United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1970s ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
Garth Hudson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Levon Helm NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Manuel NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Danko NERFINISHED ⓘ Robbie Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
rock
ⓘ
roots rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverArt | Northern Lights – Southern Cross album cover ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
CD
ⓘ
LP ⓘ cassette ⓘ digital download ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Acadian Driftwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Forbidden Fruit NERFINISHED ⓘ Hobo Jungle NERFINISHED ⓘ It Makes No Difference NERFINISHED ⓘ Jupiter Hollow NERFINISHED ⓘ Ophelia NERFINISHED ⓘ Rags and Bones NERFINISHED ⓘ Ring Your Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 39:53 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Robbie Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSong |
Acadian Driftwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
It Makes No Difference NERFINISHED ⓘ Ophelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextWork | Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first album by The Band recorded entirely at their Shangri-La studio ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 8 ⓘ |
| originalMedium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| partOf | The Band discography ⓘ |
| performer | The Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWork | Moondog Matinee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | The Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingLocation | Malibu, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingStudio | Shangri-La NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Capitol Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1975-11-01 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Northern Lights – Southern Cross Description of subject: Northern Lights – Southern Cross is a 1975 studio album by The Band, known for songs like "Ophelia" and "It Makes No Difference" and for being their first album recorded entirely at their Shangri-La studio.
Referenced by (3)
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