Black Sheep
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Black Sheep is an American hip hop duo best known for their witty, jazz-influenced style and the 1991 hit single "The Choice Is Yours."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Black Sheep canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6222513 — 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: Black Sheep Context triple: [Native Tongues collective, notableMember, Black Sheep]
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A.
Black Sheep
"Black Sheep" is a 1996 American comedy film starring Chris Farley and David Spade, centered on the misadventures of a gubernatorial candidate’s well-meaning but disastrous brother.
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B.
Black Crow
"Black Crow" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced arrangement.
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C.
Stone Poneys
Stone Poneys were a 1960s American folk-rock trio best known for launching Linda Ronstadt’s career and their hit single “Different Drum.”
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D.
Lambsbread
Lambsbread is an underground experimental noise and punk-influenced band known for its raw, improvisational sound and association with the proto-punk group Death.
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E.
White Horses
White Horses is a small coastal settlement in the parish of St. Thomas in eastern Jamaica.
- 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: Black Sheep Target entity description: Black Sheep is an American hip hop duo best known for their witty, jazz-influenced style and the 1991 hit single "The Choice Is Yours."
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A.
Black Sheep
"Black Sheep" is a 1996 American comedy film starring Chris Farley and David Spade, centered on the misadventures of a gubernatorial candidate’s well-meaning but disastrous brother.
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B.
Black Crow
"Black Crow" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced arrangement.
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C.
Stone Poneys
Stone Poneys were a 1960s American folk-rock trio best known for launching Linda Ronstadt’s career and their hit single “Different Drum.”
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D.
Lambsbread
Lambsbread is an underground experimental noise and punk-influenced band known for its raw, improvisational sound and association with the proto-punk group Death.
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E.
White Horses
White Horses is a small coastal settlement in the parish of St. Thomas in eastern Jamaica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hip hop duo
ⓘ
musical group ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1989 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Black Sheep (hip hop duo) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
A Tribe Called Quest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
De La Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ Jungle Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ Leaders of the New School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalImpact | known for classic early-1990s hip hop single The Choice Is Yours ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| genre |
East Coast hip hop
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ jazz rap ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Dres
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mista Lawnge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemberRole |
Dres – rapper
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mista Lawnge – DJ and producer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lyricalReputation |
clever wordplay
ⓘ
humorous ⓘ |
| memberOf | Native Tongues collective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
jazz-influenced production
ⓘ
witty lyrics ⓘ |
| notableSingle | The Choice Is Yours (Revisited) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSingleReleaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Flavor of the Month
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Strobelite Honey NERFINISHED ⓘ The Choice Is Yours NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Choice Is Yours NERFINISHED ⓘ The Choice Is Yours (Revisited) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Golden age hip hop era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Mercury Records
ⓘ
PolyGram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Black Sheep Description of subject: Black Sheep is an American hip hop duo best known for their witty, jazz-influenced style and the 1991 hit single "The Choice Is Yours."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.