Moby Grape
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Moby Grape is an American rock band from the late 1960s San Francisco scene, known for blending psychedelic rock, blues, and country with intricate three-guitar arrangements and rich vocal harmonies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moby Grape canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5364358 — 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: Moby Grape Context triple: [Jefferson Airplane, associatedAct, Moby Grape]
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A.
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane was a pioneering San Francisco rock band of the 1960s, best known for its influential role in the psychedelic rock movement and hits like "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit."
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B.
The Lovin' Spoonful
The Lovin' Spoonful is an American rock band formed in the 1960s, best known for its folk-rock and sunshine pop hits like "Do You Believe in Magic" and "Summer in the City."
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C.
Hot Tuna
Hot Tuna is an American blues-rock band formed by Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, known for their electric and acoustic explorations of traditional blues and roots music.
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D.
Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield was an influential 1960s American rock band known for pioneering folk rock and launching the careers of several major artists, including Neil Young and Stephen Stills.
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E.
The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Flying Burrito Brothers were a pioneering American country rock band, co-founded by Gram Parsons, that helped shape the fusion of rock and traditional country music in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- 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: Moby Grape Target entity description: Moby Grape is an American rock band from the late 1960s San Francisco scene, known for blending psychedelic rock, blues, and country with intricate three-guitar arrangements and rich vocal harmonies.
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A.
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane was a pioneering San Francisco rock band of the 1960s, best known for its influential role in the psychedelic rock movement and hits like "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit."
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B.
The Lovin' Spoonful
The Lovin' Spoonful is an American rock band formed in the 1960s, best known for its folk-rock and sunshine pop hits like "Do You Believe in Magic" and "Summer in the City."
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C.
Hot Tuna
Hot Tuna is an American blues-rock band formed by Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, known for their electric and acoustic explorations of traditional blues and roots music.
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D.
Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield was an influential 1960s American rock band known for pioneering folk rock and launching the careers of several major artists, including Neil Young and Stephen Stills.
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E.
The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Flying Burrito Brothers were a pioneering American country rock band, co-founded by Gram Parsons, that helped shape the fusion of rock and traditional country music in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1966 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Big Brother and the Holding Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jefferson Airplane NERFINISHED ⓘ Quicksilver Messenger Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | 1960s counterculture ⓘ |
| associatedWithScene | San Francisco music scene ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | debut album widely acclaimed by critics ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Moby Grape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| genre |
acid rock
ⓘ
blues rock ⓘ country rock ⓘ folk rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasLegalIssues | trademark disputes over band name ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
blues
ⓘ
country music ⓘ folk music ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
country rock
ⓘ
power pop ⓘ |
| instrumentationFeature | three lead guitarists ⓘ |
| member |
Bob Mosley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Don Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Skip Spence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameOrigin |
inspired by phrase “What’s big and purple and lives in the ocean?”
ⓘ
play on the title of the novel “Moby-Dick” ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Grape Jam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moby Grape NERFINISHED ⓘ Wow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
rich vocal harmonies
ⓘ
three-guitar arrangements ⓘ |
| notableSong |
8:05
ⓘ
Fall on You NERFINISHED ⓘ Hey Grandma NERFINISHED ⓘ Omaha NERFINISHED ⓘ Sitting by the Window NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | San Francisco, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakPopularityPeriod | late 1960s ⓘ |
| performanceReputation | tight live performances ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| vocalistsCount | multiple lead vocalists ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | multi-part harmonies ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Moby Grape Description of subject: Moby Grape is an American rock band from the late 1960s San Francisco scene, known for blending psychedelic rock, blues, and country with intricate three-guitar arrangements and rich vocal harmonies.
Referenced by (1)
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