Talking Heads: 77
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Talking Heads: 77 is the 1977 debut studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, featuring their early art rock and new wave sound and including the song "Psycho Killer."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Talking Heads: 77 canonical | 6 |
| Talking Heads – 77 | 1 |
| Talking Heads – early recordings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5144610 — 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: Talking Heads: 77 Context triple: [Talking Heads, notableWork, Talking Heads: 77]
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A.
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an influential American new wave band formed in the 1970s, known for their art-rock sensibilities, innovative music videos, and the distinctive vocals and songwriting of frontman David Byrne.
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B.
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense is a landmark 1984 concert film featuring Talking Heads, celebrated for its innovative staging, dynamic performance style, and influential role in music cinema.
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C.
Remain in Light
Remain in Light is a critically acclaimed 1980 album by Talking Heads, noted for its innovative fusion of rock, funk, and African polyrhythms and its pioneering use of studio experimentation.
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D.
A Band Apart
A Band Apart was a film production company co-founded by director Quentin Tarantino, known for producing several of his influential movies in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
The B-52's
The B-52's are an American new wave band known for their quirky style and hits like "Rock Lobster" and "Love Shack."
- 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: Talking Heads: 77 Target entity description: Talking Heads: 77 is the 1977 debut studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, featuring their early art rock and new wave sound and including the song "Psycho Killer."
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A.
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an influential American new wave band formed in the 1970s, known for their art-rock sensibilities, innovative music videos, and the distinctive vocals and songwriting of frontman David Byrne.
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B.
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense is a landmark 1984 concert film featuring Talking Heads, celebrated for its innovative staging, dynamic performance style, and influential role in music cinema.
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C.
Remain in Light
Remain in Light is a critically acclaimed 1980 album by Talking Heads, noted for its innovative fusion of rock, funk, and African polyrhythms and its pioneering use of studio experimentation.
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D.
A Band Apart
A Band Apart was a film production company co-founded by director Quentin Tarantino, known for producing several of his influential movies in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
The B-52's
The B-52's are an American new wave band known for their quirky style and hits like "Rock Lobster" and "Love Shack."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Talking Heads: 77 Description of subject: Talking Heads: 77 is the 1977 debut studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, featuring their early art rock and new wave sound and including the song "Psycho Killer."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Talking Heads: 77
linked to: Talking Heads: 77
subject linked to:
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food