The Seeds
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The Seeds were a 1960s American rock band best known for their raw, garage-psych sound and their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Seeds canonical | 6 |
| The Seeds (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5144400 — 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: The Seeds Context triple: [Acid Eaters, originalArtistOfCoveredSong, The Seeds]
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A.
The Surfaris
The Surfaris are an American surf rock band best known for their 1963 instrumental hit "Wipe Out," a defining track of the surf music genre.
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B.
The Hollies
The Hollies are an English pop/rock band formed in the early 1960s, best known for their distinctive vocal harmonies and hits like "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress."
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C.
The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots were a popular American rock band of the 1960s and 1970s known for their folk-rock and pop-rock hits such as "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions."
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D.
The Shadows
The Shadows were a pioneering British instrumental rock group, best known as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their influential, twangy guitar sound that shaped early rock and roll.
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E.
The Merseybeats
The Merseybeats are a 1960s Liverpool beat group associated with the British Invasion era, known for their melodic pop-rock sound and ties to the Merseybeat scene.
- 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: The Seeds Target entity description: The Seeds were a 1960s American rock band best known for their raw, garage-psych sound and their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard."
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A.
The Surfaris
The Surfaris are an American surf rock band best known for their 1963 instrumental hit "Wipe Out," a defining track of the surf music genre.
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B.
The Hollies
The Hollies are an English pop/rock band formed in the early 1960s, best known for their distinctive vocal harmonies and hits like "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress."
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C.
The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots were a popular American rock band of the 1960s and 1970s known for their folk-rock and pop-rock hits such as "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions."
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D.
The Shadows
The Shadows were a pioneering British instrumental rock group, best known as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their influential, twangy guitar sound that shaped early rock and roll.
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E.
The Merseybeats
The Merseybeats are a 1960s Liverpool beat group associated with the British Invasion era, known for their melodic pop-rock sound and ties to the Merseybeat scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
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: The Seeds Description of subject: The Seeds were a 1960s American rock band best known for their raw, garage-psych sound and their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Seeds