Sextant
E513775
Sextant is a 1971 jazz fusion album by Herbie Hancock that marked his transition into more experimental, electronic sounds.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sextant canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5349983 — 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: Sextant Context triple: [Head Hunters, precededBy, Sextant]
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A.
SEXTANT
SEXTANT is a NASA demonstration mission that tests using X-ray emissions from pulsars for autonomous spacecraft navigation in deep space.
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B.
Muse of celestial navigation
The Muse of celestial navigation is Urania, the Greek muse who presides over astronomy and the study of the stars.
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C.
Neptune Spear
Neptune Spear is the code name for the 2011 U.S. Navy SEAL operation that located and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
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D.
Newport Box
Newport Box is a boxed, filtered cigarette product variant of the Newport menthol cigarette brand.
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E.
Spinnaker
Spinnaker is a prominent sail-shaped observation tower and landmark located on the waterfront in Portsmouth, England.
- 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: Sextant Target entity description: Sextant is a 1971 jazz fusion album by Herbie Hancock that marked his transition into more experimental, electronic sounds.
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A.
SEXTANT
SEXTANT is a NASA demonstration mission that tests using X-ray emissions from pulsars for autonomous spacecraft navigation in deep space.
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B.
Muse of celestial navigation
The Muse of celestial navigation is Urania, the Greek muse who presides over astronomy and the study of the stars.
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C.
Neptune Spear
Neptune Spear is the code name for the 2011 U.S. Navy SEAL operation that located and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
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D.
Newport Box
Newport Box is a boxed, filtered cigarette product variant of the Newport menthol cigarette brand.
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E.
Spinnaker
Spinnaker is a prominent sail-shaped observation tower and landmark located on the waterfront in Portsmouth, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sextant Description of subject: Sextant is a 1971 jazz fusion album by Herbie Hancock that marked his transition into more experimental, electronic sounds.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.