American Garage
E501264
American Garage is a 1979 jazz fusion album by the Pat Metheny Group that helped establish Metheny’s signature melodic and atmospheric style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American Garage canonical | 2 |
| American Garage (title track) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5193781 — 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: American Garage Context triple: [Pat Metheny, notableWork, American Garage]
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A.
In the Garage
"In the Garage" is a nostalgic, guitar-driven rock song by Weezer that celebrates geeky, outsider identity and personal sanctuary, featured on their self-titled 1994 debut album commonly known as the Blue Album.
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B.
House of a Thousand Guitars
"House of a Thousand Guitars" is a reflective rock song by Bruce Springsteen that appears on his 2020 studio album "Letter to You."
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C.
Duster
Duster is a landmark 1967 jazz album by vibraphonist Gary Burton, often cited as one of the earliest and most influential recordings in the jazz fusion genre.
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D.
Hot Rod
Hot Rod is a 2007 comedy film starring Andy Samberg as an inept stuntman attempting a massive jump to earn money for his stepfather’s surgery.
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E.
American Soul
"American Soul" is a politically charged rock song by U2 from their album *Songs of Experience*, reflecting themes of American identity and social unrest.
- 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: American Garage Target entity description: American Garage is a 1979 jazz fusion album by the Pat Metheny Group that helped establish Metheny’s signature melodic and atmospheric style.
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A.
In the Garage
"In the Garage" is a nostalgic, guitar-driven rock song by Weezer that celebrates geeky, outsider identity and personal sanctuary, featured on their self-titled 1994 debut album commonly known as the Blue Album.
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B.
House of a Thousand Guitars
"House of a Thousand Guitars" is a reflective rock song by Bruce Springsteen that appears on his 2020 studio album "Letter to You."
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C.
Duster
Duster is a landmark 1967 jazz album by vibraphonist Gary Burton, often cited as one of the earliest and most influential recordings in the jazz fusion genre.
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D.
Hot Rod
Hot Rod is a 2007 comedy film starring Andy Samberg as an inept stuntman attempting a massive jump to earn money for his stepfather’s surgery.
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E.
American Soul
"American Soul" is a politically charged rock song by U2 from their album *Songs of Experience*, reflecting themes of American identity and social unrest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
album
ⓘ
jazz fusion album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Pat Metheny Group ⓘ |
| contributor |
Dan Gottlieb
ⓘ
Lyle Mays ⓘ Mark Egan ⓘ Pat Metheny ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ percussion ⓘ piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| followedBy | Offramp ⓘ |
| follows |
Pat Metheny Group (album)
ⓘ
linked to:
Pat Metheny Group
|
| format |
LP record
ⓘ
compact disc ⓘ digital download ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
jazz fusion ⓘ |
| hasPart |
(Cross the) Heartland
ⓘ
Airstream ⓘ
linked to:
Winnebago Industries
American Garage (title track) ⓘ
linked to:
American Garage
The Epic ⓘ The Search ⓘ |
| hasType |
ECM Records album
ⓘ
Pat Metheny Group album ⓘ |
| inception | 1979 ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| length | approximately 38 minutes ⓘ |
| mainSubject | melodic jazz fusion ⓘ |
| mediaType | audio ⓘ |
| notableFor |
atmospheric guitar sound
ⓘ
helping establish Pat Metheny’s signature melodic style ⓘ |
| partOf | Pat Metheny Group discography ⓘ |
| performer | Pat Metheny Group ⓘ |
| producer |
Manfred Eicher
ⓘ
Pat Metheny ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Talent Studios, Oslo ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | June 1979 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | ECM Records ⓘ |
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: American Garage Description of subject: American Garage is a 1979 jazz fusion album by the Pat Metheny Group that helped establish Metheny’s signature melodic and atmospheric style.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: American Garage