Split Enz
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Split Enz was a pioneering New Zealand rock and new wave band known for its theatrical style, innovative songwriting, and hits like "I Got You."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crowded House | 1 |
| Split Enz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5071386 — 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: Split Enz Context triple: [The Swingers, originatedFromBand, Split Enz]
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A.
Powderfinger
Powderfinger is a Neil Young song, best known as a haunting, narrative-driven rock ballad that appears on his 1979 album and concert film "Rust Never Sleeps."
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B.
Silverchair
Silverchair is an Australian rock band that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with a grunge-influenced sound and hit albums like "Frogstomp" and "Neon Ballroom."
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C.
The Go-Betweens
The Go-Betweens were an Australian indie rock band formed in Brisbane in the late 1970s, acclaimed for their literate songwriting and melodic, guitar-driven sound.
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D.
Wipukepa band
The Wipukepa band is a Native American group historically linked to the Yavapai people of central Arizona, recognized for its distinct cultural and linguistic heritage.
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E.
The Associates
The Associates were a powerful group of 19th-century American railroad magnates who dominated the development and control of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.
- 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: Split Enz Target entity description: Split Enz was a pioneering New Zealand rock and new wave band known for its theatrical style, innovative songwriting, and hits like "I Got You."
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A.
Powderfinger
Powderfinger is a Neil Young song, best known as a haunting, narrative-driven rock ballad that appears on his 1979 album and concert film "Rust Never Sleeps."
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B.
Silverchair
Silverchair is an Australian rock band that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with a grunge-influenced sound and hit albums like "Frogstomp" and "Neon Ballroom."
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C.
The Go-Betweens
The Go-Betweens were an Australian indie rock band formed in Brisbane in the late 1970s, acclaimed for their literate songwriting and melodic, guitar-driven sound.
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D.
Wipukepa band
The Wipukepa band is a Native American group historically linked to the Yavapai people of central Arizona, recognized for its distinct cultural and linguistic heritage.
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E.
The Associates
The Associates were a powerful group of 19th-century American railroad magnates who dominated the development and control of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
new wave band
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rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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new wave ⓘ pop rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Eddie Rayner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eddie Raynor NERFINISHED ⓘ Emlyn Crowther NERFINISHED ⓘ Geoff Chunn NERFINISHED ⓘ Mal Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Malcolm Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Chunn NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Miles Golding NERFINISHED ⓘ Neil Finn NERFINISHED ⓘ Neil Hannan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigel Griggs NERFINISHED ⓘ Noel Crombie NERFINISHED ⓘ Noel Crombie (percussionist and visual designer) NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Crowther NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Newell NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Judd NERFINISHED ⓘ Rob Gillies NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Finn NERFINISHED ⓘ Wally Wilkinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | Crowded House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative songwriting
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surreal visual style ⓘ theatrical stage costumes ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Conflicting Emotions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dizrythmia NERFINISHED ⓘ Frenzy NERFINISHED ⓘ Mental Notes NERFINISHED ⓘ Time and Tide NERFINISHED ⓘ True Colours NERFINISHED ⓘ Waiata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
History Never Repeats
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Got You NERFINISHED ⓘ I See Red NERFINISHED ⓘ Message to My Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ One Step Ahead NERFINISHED ⓘ Six Months in a Leaky Boat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCity | Auckland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
A&M Records
ⓘ
Mushroom Records 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: Split Enz Description of subject: Split Enz was a pioneering New Zealand rock and new wave band known for its theatrical style, innovative songwriting, and hits like "I Got You."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Crowded House