Pylon
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Pylon was an influential American post-punk band from Athens, Georgia, known for its angular guitar sound and role in the early alternative rock scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pylon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4786095 — 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: Pylon Context triple: [40 Watt Club, associatedWithArtist, Pylon]
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A.
Pylons Project
Pylons Project is an open-source organization that develops and maintains Python web frameworks and related tools, including the Pyramid framework.
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B.
Vision Tower
Vision Tower is a prominent commercial skyscraper in Dubai known for its distinctive modern architecture and prime location in the Business Bay district.
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C.
Apprentice Pillar
The Apprentice Pillar is an elaborately carved stone column in Scotland’s Rosslyn Chapel, famed for its intricate design and the legend that its young sculptor was murdered by his jealous master.
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D.
Crawlerway
Crawlerway is the massive, specially engineered roadway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center used to transport rockets and spacecraft atop crawler-transporters between assembly and launch pads.
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E.
Electric Tower
Electric Tower is a historic early-20th-century skyscraper in downtown Buffalo, New York, known for its distinctive Beaux-Arts architecture and illuminated crown.
- 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: Pylon Target entity description: Pylon was an influential American post-punk band from Athens, Georgia, known for its angular guitar sound and role in the early alternative rock scene.
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A.
Pylons Project
Pylons Project is an open-source organization that develops and maintains Python web frameworks and related tools, including the Pyramid framework.
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B.
Vision Tower
Vision Tower is a prominent commercial skyscraper in Dubai known for its distinctive modern architecture and prime location in the Business Bay district.
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C.
Apprentice Pillar
The Apprentice Pillar is an elaborately carved stone column in Scotland’s Rosslyn Chapel, famed for its intricate design and the legend that its young sculptor was murdered by his jealous master.
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D.
Crawlerway
Crawlerway is the massive, specially engineered roadway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center used to transport rockets and spacecraft atop crawler-transporters between assembly and launch pads.
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E.
Electric Tower
Electric Tower is a historic early-20th-century skyscraper in downtown Buffalo, New York, known for its distinctive Beaux-Arts architecture and illuminated crown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | American post-punk band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd |
1983
ⓘ
1991 ⓘ 2009 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1978 ⓘ |
| album |
Chomp
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chomp More NERFINISHED ⓘ Gyrate NERFINISHED ⓘ Gyrate Plus NERFINISHED ⓘ Hits NERFINISHED ⓘ Pylon Live NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Pylon Reenactment Society
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
R.E.M. NERFINISHED ⓘ The B-52's NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Gyrate ⓘ |
| describedBy | R.E.M. as one of the best bands in America ⓘ |
| EP |
Beep
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cool / Dub ⓘ Gravity NERFINISHED ⓘ Razz / Dub ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
college rock ⓘ new wave ⓘ post-punk ⓘ |
| influenced |
R.E.M.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
numerous alternative rock bands ⓘ |
| member |
Curtis Crowe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Lachowski NERFINISHED ⓘ Randy Bewley NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanessa Briscoe Hay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | American college rock movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
angular guitar sound
ⓘ
influence on early alternative rock scene ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Athens, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
DB Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New West Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Sky Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reformed |
1989
ⓘ
2004 ⓘ |
| role |
Curtis Crowe – drums
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Lachowski – bass guitar ⓘ Randy Bewley – guitar NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanessa Briscoe Hay – vocals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scene | Athens, Georgia music scene ⓘ |
| song |
Beep
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cool NERFINISHED ⓘ Crazy NERFINISHED ⓘ Dub ⓘ Feast on My Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ Stop It NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Pylon Description of subject: Pylon was an influential American post-punk band from Athens, Georgia, known for its angular guitar sound and role in the early alternative rock scene.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
40 Watt Club