Machine Gun
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"Machine Gun" is a powerful, improvisational live track by Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, renowned for its searing guitar work and vivid sonic portrayal of the Vietnam War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Machine Gun canonical | 4 |
| Machine Gun (song) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4454178 — 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: Machine Gun Context triple: [Band of Gypsys, notableWork, Machine Gun]
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A.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is the 1974 debut studio album by American funk and soul band the Commodores, known for its energetic instrumental title track and establishing the group's signature sound.
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B.
Shotgun
"Shotgun" is a 1955 American Western film starring Sterling Hayden as a lawman pursuing outlaws across rugged frontier territory.
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C.
Pistol
Pistol is a braggart, swaggering follower of Falstaff who appears as a comic, bombastic soldier in several of Shakespeare’s plays, including *The Merry Wives of Windsor*.
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D.
Fussilat
Fussilat is the 41st chapter of the Qur’an, known for its detailed exposition of divine revelation, signs in creation, and the consequences of accepting or rejecting the message.
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E.
Maxim gun
The Maxim gun was the first fully automatic machine gun, revolutionizing late 19th- and early 20th-century warfare with its rapid, sustained firepower.
- 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: Machine Gun Target entity description: "Machine Gun" is a powerful, improvisational live track by Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, renowned for its searing guitar work and vivid sonic portrayal of the Vietnam War.
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A.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is the 1974 debut studio album by American funk and soul band the Commodores, known for its energetic instrumental title track and establishing the group's signature sound.
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B.
Shotgun
"Shotgun" is a 1955 American Western film starring Sterling Hayden as a lawman pursuing outlaws across rugged frontier territory.
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C.
Pistol
Pistol is a braggart, swaggering follower of Falstaff who appears as a comic, bombastic soldier in several of Shakespeare’s plays, including *The Merry Wives of Windsor*.
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D.
Fussilat
Fussilat is the 41st chapter of the Qur’an, known for its detailed exposition of divine revelation, signs in creation, and the consequences of accepting or rejecting the message.
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E.
Maxim gun
The Maxim gun was the first fully automatic machine gun, revolutionizing late 19th- and early 20th-century warfare with its rapid, sustained firepower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
live recording
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musical composition ⓘ song ⓘ |
| albumArtist |
Band of Gypsys
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Jimi Hendrix ⓘ |
| artist | Band of Gypsys ⓘ |
| composer | Jimi Hendrix ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| criticalReception |
considered one of Jimi Hendrix’s greatest live performances
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widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| firstLivePerformanceYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
funk rock ⓘ improvisational music ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion |
Band of Gypsys (1970 album version)
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linked to:
Band of Gypsys
various posthumous Hendrix live releases ⓘ |
| historicalContext | performed during the Vietnam War era ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ |
| label | Capitol Records ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 12 minutes ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
suffering of soldiers and civilians
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war ⓘ |
| lyricist | Jimi Hendrix ⓘ |
| mainPerformerInstrument | electric guitar played by Jimi Hendrix ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
anti-war theme
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extended guitar improvisation ⓘ use of feedback and effects to imitate battlefield sounds ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Band of Gypsys ⓘ |
| performer |
Billy Cox
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Buddy Miles ⓘ Jimi Hendrix ⓘ |
| producer |
Billy Cox
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Buddy Miles ⓘ Eddie Kramer ⓘ Jimi Hendrix ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Fillmore East ⓘ |
| recordedInCity | New York City ⓘ |
| recordedInCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| recordedOn |
1969-12-31
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1970-01-01 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1970-03-25 ⓘ |
| subject | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | live vocal performance ⓘ |
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: Machine Gun Description of subject: "Machine Gun" is a powerful, improvisational live track by Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, renowned for its searing guitar work and vivid sonic portrayal of the Vietnam War.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Machine Gun
linked to: Machine Gun