San Francisco Sound
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The San Francisco Sound is a distinctive style of rock music that emerged in the mid-1960s Bay Area, characterized by psychedelic influences, improvisational jams, and bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin’s Big Brother and the Holding Company.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Francisco Sound canonical | 3 |
| San Francisco psychedelic music scene | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4532292 — 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: San Francisco Sound Context triple: [Fillmore West, associatedWith, San Francisco Sound]
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A.
California Sound
California Sound is a sunny, harmony-rich pop music style that emerged from 1960s Southern California, epitomized by surf, car, and youth culture themes and strongly associated with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys.
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B.
Marin
Marin is a surname most famously associated with Cheech Marin, the American comedian, actor, and musician known from the duo Cheech & Chong.
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C.
Sausalito
Sausalito is a picturesque waterfront city in Northern California known for its hillside homes, art galleries, and views of the San Francisco Bay.
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D.
Nadi–San Francisco
Nadi–San Francisco is an international long-haul flight route linking Nadi, Fiji with San Francisco, California, serving as a key air connection between the South Pacific and the U.S. West Coast.
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E.
San Francisco Cora
San Francisco Cora is a regional variety of the Cora language traditionally spoken by Cora communities in and around the San Francisco region of Nayarit, Mexico.
- 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: San Francisco Sound Target entity description: The San Francisco Sound is a distinctive style of rock music that emerged in the mid-1960s Bay Area, characterized by psychedelic influences, improvisational jams, and bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin’s Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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A.
California Sound
California Sound is a sunny, harmony-rich pop music style that emerged from 1960s Southern California, epitomized by surf, car, and youth culture themes and strongly associated with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys.
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B.
Marin
Marin is a surname most famously associated with Cheech Marin, the American comedian, actor, and musician known from the duo Cheech & Chong.
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C.
Sausalito
Sausalito is a picturesque waterfront city in Northern California known for its hillside homes, art galleries, and views of the San Francisco Bay.
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D.
Nadi–San Francisco
Nadi–San Francisco is an international long-haul flight route linking Nadi, Fiji with San Francisco, California, serving as a key air connection between the South Pacific and the U.S. West Coast.
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E.
San Francisco Cora
San Francisco Cora is a regional variety of the Cora language traditionally spoken by Cora communities in and around the San Francisco region of Nayarit, Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
regional music scene
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rock music style ⓘ |
| associatedArtist | Janis Joplin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedBand |
Big Brother and the Holding Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Country Joe and the Fish NERFINISHED ⓘ Grateful Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ It’s a Beautiful Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson Airplane NERFINISHED ⓘ Moby Grape NERFINISHED ⓘ Quicksilver Messenger Service NERFINISHED ⓘ Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Miller Band NERFINISHED ⓘ The Charlatans (San Francisco band) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Summer of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedFestival | Monterey Pop Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedNeighborhood | Haight-Ashbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedVenue |
Avalon Ballroom
NERFINISHED
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Fillmore Auditorium NERFINISHED ⓘ Winterland Ballroom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity |
Berkeley
NERFINISHED
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Oakland NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characteristic |
collective ensemble playing
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communal ethos ⓘ experimentation with sound and form ⓘ extended improvisational jams ⓘ long live performances ⓘ loose song structures ⓘ politically aware lyrics ⓘ use of feedback and distortion ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalContext |
counterculture of the 1960s
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hippie movement ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
beatnik culture
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folk club scene in the Bay Area ⓘ |
| emergedInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| emergedInPeriod | mid-1960s ⓘ |
| influenced |
jam band scene
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later psychedelic revival bands ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
LSD use
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blues music ⓘ folk music ⓘ jazz improvisation ⓘ psychedelic culture ⓘ |
| locatedIn | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage |
FM freeform radio
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underground press ⓘ |
| musicGenre |
acid rock
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blues rock ⓘ folk rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| recordIndustryCenter | San Francisco Bay Area independent labels ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfProminence | late 1960s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: San Francisco Sound Description of subject: The San Francisco Sound is a distinctive style of rock music that emerged in the mid-1960s Bay Area, characterized by psychedelic influences, improvisational jams, and bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin’s Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
San Francisco psychedelic music scene