Passengers (band)
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Passengers is an experimental music project formed by U2 and producer Brian Eno, known for its atmospheric, soundtrack-like compositions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Passengers (band) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5929741 — 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: Passengers (band) Context triple: [David Howell Evans, hasAssociatedAct, Passengers (band)]
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A.
The Tourists
The Tourists were a late-1970s British new wave band best known as the pre-Eurythmics group featuring Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart.
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B.
Crowes
Crowes is a surname variant of Crowe, borne by various individuals and families of English or Irish origin.
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C.
Trevians
Trevians are the athletic teams and student representatives of New Trier High School, symbolizing the school's competitive and community spirit.
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D.
The Musicians
"The Musicians" is a short story from Ray Bradbury’s science fiction collection *The Martian Chronicles*, depicting human encounters and eerie remnants on a colonized Mars.
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E.
Sakonnet band
The Sakonnet band was a local group of the Wampanoag people who inhabited the Sakonnet region of what is now southeastern Rhode Island.
- 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: Passengers (band) Target entity description: Passengers is an experimental music project formed by U2 and producer Brian Eno, known for its atmospheric, soundtrack-like compositions.
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A.
The Tourists
The Tourists were a late-1970s British new wave band best known as the pre-Eurythmics group featuring Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart.
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B.
Crowes
Crowes is a surname variant of Crowe, borne by various individuals and families of English or Irish origin.
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C.
Trevians
Trevians are the athletic teams and student representatives of New Trier High School, symbolizing the school's competitive and community spirit.
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D.
The Musicians
"The Musicians" is a short story from Ray Bradbury’s science fiction collection *The Martian Chronicles*, depicting human encounters and eerie remnants on a colonized Mars.
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E.
Sakonnet band
The Sakonnet band was a local group of the Wampanoag people who inhabited the Sakonnet region of what is now southeastern Rhode Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U2 side project
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experimental music project ⓘ musical group ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Brian Eno
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Howie B ⓘ Pavarotti ⓘ
linked to:
Luciano Pavarotti
U2 ⓘ |
| collaborationWith |
Howie B
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Luciano Pavarotti ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| describedAs | fictional soundtrack creators ⓘ |
| formedAs | studio project ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient
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electronic ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ soundtrack ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
atmospheric sound
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cinematic style ⓘ instrumental focus ⓘ soundtrack-like compositions ⓘ use of electronic textures ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Adam Clayton
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Bono ⓘ Brian Eno ⓘ Larry Mullen Jr. ⓘ The Edge ⓘ U2 ⓘ |
| hasProducer |
Brian Eno
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Flood ⓘ Howie B ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
atmosphere over traditional song structure
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cinema ⓘ experimentation in sound ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
ambient music
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electronic music ⓘ film soundtracks ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Always Forever Now
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Miss Sarajevo ⓘ Slug ⓘ Your Blue Room ⓘ |
| notableWork | Original Soundtracks 1 ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Island Records
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PolyGram ⓘ |
| releaseType | album project ⓘ |
| usesConcept | imaginary films ⓘ |
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: Passengers (band) Description of subject: Passengers is an experimental music project formed by U2 and producer Brian Eno, known for its atmospheric, soundtrack-like compositions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Evans