The Cranberries
E500586
The Cranberries were an Irish alternative rock band formed in Limerick, best known for Dolores O’Riordan’s distinctive vocals and international hits like “Linger” and “Zombie.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cranberries canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5199715 — 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 Cranberries Context triple: [Storm Thorgerson, workedWith, The Cranberries]
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A.
The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish family band known for blending pop rock with traditional Celtic folk influences, achieving international success in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
The Pogues
The Pogues were an influential Anglo-Irish band known for fusing traditional Celtic folk music with punk rock energy and poetic, often gritty storytelling.
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C.
The Chieftains
The Chieftains are an acclaimed Irish traditional folk band known for popularizing Celtic music worldwide and collaborating with numerous prominent artists.
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D.
Dire Straits
Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in 1977, best known for their clean, guitar-driven sound and hits like "Sultans of Swing," "Money for Nothing," and "Brothers in Arms."
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E.
Costello
Costello is a surname most notably associated with members of the American acting family, including silent film actress Helene Costello.
- 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 Cranberries Target entity description: The Cranberries were an Irish alternative rock band formed in Limerick, best known for Dolores O’Riordan’s distinctive vocals and international hits like “Linger” and “Zombie.”
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A.
The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish family band known for blending pop rock with traditional Celtic folk influences, achieving international success in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
The Pogues
The Pogues were an influential Anglo-Irish band known for fusing traditional Celtic folk music with punk rock energy and poetic, often gritty storytelling.
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C.
The Chieftains
The Chieftains are an acclaimed Irish traditional folk band known for popularizing Celtic music worldwide and collaborating with numerous prominent artists.
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D.
Dire Straits
Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in 1977, best known for their clean, guitar-driven sound and hits like "Sultans of Swing," "Money for Nothing," and "Brothers in Arms."
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E.
Costello
Costello is a surname most notably associated with members of the American acting family, including silent film actress Helene Costello.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
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 Cranberries Description of subject: The Cranberries were an Irish alternative rock band formed in Limerick, best known for Dolores O’Riordan’s distinctive vocals and international hits like “Linger” and “Zombie.”
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin
subject linked to:
Island
subject linked to:
The Cranberries – Bury the Hatchet
subject linked to:
The Cranberries – Bury the Hatchet
subject linked to:
The Cranberries – Bury the Hatchet
subject linked to:
Windmill Lane