Quicksilver Messenger Service
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Quicksilver Messenger Service was an influential late-1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock band known for its extended improvisations and prominent role in the city’s countercultural music scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quicksilver Messenger Service canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4532303 — 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: Quicksilver Messenger Service Context triple: [Fillmore West, hostedArtist, Quicksilver Messenger Service]
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A.
Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger was a popular instant messaging client and service from Yahoo that enabled real-time text, voice, and video communication, widely used in the late 1990s and 2000s.
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B.
Quickway
Quickway is a major limited-access highway corridor in New York State that carries much of the traffic of NY Route 17 and forms a key east–west route across the southern part of the state.
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C.
Quicksilver
Quicksilver is a Marvel Comics superhero known for his superhuman speed and frequent involvement with major teams like the Avengers and the X-Men.
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D.
Hub One
Hub One is a French digital services and telecommunications company specializing in connectivity, mobility, and IT solutions, particularly for airport and logistics environments.
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E.
Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a free, open-source email client developed by Mozilla, known for its extensibility and cross-platform support.
- 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: Quicksilver Messenger Service Target entity description: Quicksilver Messenger Service was an influential late-1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock band known for its extended improvisations and prominent role in the city’s countercultural music scene.
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A.
Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger was a popular instant messaging client and service from Yahoo that enabled real-time text, voice, and video communication, widely used in the late 1990s and 2000s.
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B.
Quickway
Quickway is a major limited-access highway corridor in New York State that carries much of the traffic of NY Route 17 and forms a key east–west route across the southern part of the state.
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C.
Quicksilver
Quicksilver is a Marvel Comics superhero known for his superhuman speed and frequent involvement with major teams like the Avengers and the X-Men.
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D.
Hub One
Hub One is a French digital services and telecommunications company specializing in connectivity, mobility, and IT solutions, particularly for airport and logistics environments.
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E.
Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a free, open-source email client developed by Mozilla, known for its extensibility and cross-platform support.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (101)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
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rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Big Brother and the Holding Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blue Cheer NERFINISHED ⓘ Copperhead NERFINISHED ⓘ Country Joe and the Fish NERFINISHED ⓘ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Dino Valenti NERFINISHED ⓘ Grateful Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Hot Tuna NERFINISHED ⓘ It’s a Beautiful Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Janis Joplin NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson Airplane NERFINISHED ⓘ Manassas NERFINISHED ⓘ Moby Grape NERFINISHED ⓘ New Riders of the Purple Sage NERFINISHED ⓘ Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ Starship NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Miller Band NERFINISHED ⓘ The Byrds NERFINISHED ⓘ The Charlatans (San Francisco band) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dinosaurs NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Society NERFINISHED ⓘ The Other Ones NERFINISHED ⓘ The Quicksilver Gold Band NERFINISHED ⓘ The Quicksilver Messenger Service Revisited NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sons of Champlin NERFINISHED ⓘ The Steve Miller Blues Band NERFINISHED ⓘ The Youngbloods NERFINISHED ⓘ Zero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | 1960s counterculture ⓘ |
| associatedWithScene | San Francisco Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
acid rock
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blues rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ jam band ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Chuck Steaks
NERFINISHED
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David Freiberg NERFINISHED ⓘ David Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ Dino Valenti NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Duncan Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Philippet NERFINISHED ⓘ George Tickner NERFINISHED ⓘ Greg Elmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Joel Tepp NERFINISHED ⓘ John Cipollina NERFINISHED ⓘ John Oxendine NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathi McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ Ken Kusterer NERFINISHED ⓘ Mario Cipollina NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Naftalin NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicky Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Polte NERFINISHED ⓘ Skip Spence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
later jam bands
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psychedelic revival bands ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extended improvisations
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role in the San Francisco counterculture music scene ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Dino's Song
NERFINISHED
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Fresh Air NERFINISHED ⓘ Mona NERFINISHED ⓘ Pride of Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Who Do You Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Comin' Thru
NERFINISHED
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Happy Trails NERFINISHED ⓘ Just for Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Quicksilver (1971 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Quicksilver Messenger Service (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shady Grove NERFINISHED ⓘ Solid Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ What About Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedAt |
Avalon Ballroom
NERFINISHED
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Fillmore Auditorium NERFINISHED ⓘ Monterey Pop Festival (informal scene, not main bill) NERFINISHED ⓘ Winterland Ballroom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | San Francisco, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Acadia Records
NERFINISHED
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BGO Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Beat Goes On Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Capitol Records ⓘ Charly Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Dawn Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Edsel Records NERFINISHED ⓘ One Way Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Repertoire Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhino Records NERFINISHED ⓘ RockBeat Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Sundazed Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Varese Sarabande NERFINISHED ⓘ World In Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reformed | 2006 ⓘ |
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: Quicksilver Messenger Service Description of subject: Quicksilver Messenger Service was an influential late-1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock band known for its extended improvisations and prominent role in the city’s countercultural music scene.
Referenced by (3)
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