Speed of Sound
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"Speed of Sound" is a song titled track, likely a rock composition, featured on Pearl Jam’s album *Backspacer*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Speed of Sound canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6229977 — 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: Speed of Sound Context triple: [Backspacer, hasTrack, Speed of Sound]
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A.
Mach number
Mach number is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics and aerodynamics that expresses the ratio of an object's speed to the local speed of sound, commonly used to characterize subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows.
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B.
Mach cone
A Mach cone is the conical shock wave pattern produced by an object traveling through a medium at a speed faster than the speed of sound.
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C.
Soundwave
Soundwave is a Decepticon from the Transformers franchise, known for his cold, calculating loyalty to Megatron and his ability to deploy smaller cassette-like minions for espionage and combat.
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D.
Supersonic
"Supersonic" is a 1994 Britpop anthem by English rock band Oasis, known for its swaggering style, distinctive guitar riff, and role in establishing the band's early fame.
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E.
Mach 1
Mach 1 is a performance-oriented version of the Ford Mustang known for its enhanced power, handling, and distinctive styling cues.
- 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: Speed of Sound Target entity description: "Speed of Sound" is a song titled track, likely a rock composition, featured on Pearl Jam’s album *Backspacer*.
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A.
Mach number
Mach number is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics and aerodynamics that expresses the ratio of an object's speed to the local speed of sound, commonly used to characterize subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows.
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B.
Mach cone
A Mach cone is the conical shock wave pattern produced by an object traveling through a medium at a speed faster than the speed of sound.
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C.
Soundwave
Soundwave is a Decepticon from the Transformers franchise, known for his cold, calculating loyalty to Megatron and his ability to deploy smaller cassette-like minions for espionage and combat.
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D.
Supersonic
"Supersonic" is a 1994 Britpop anthem by English rock band Oasis, known for its swaggering style, distinctive guitar riff, and role in establishing the band's early fame.
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E.
Mach 1
Mach 1 is a performance-oriented version of the Ford Mustang known for its enhanced power, handling, and distinctive styling cues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| album | Backspacer ⓘ |
| artist | Pearl Jam ⓘ |
| associatedBandMember |
Eddie Vedder
ⓘ
Jeff Ament ⓘ Matt Cameron ⓘ Mike McCready ⓘ Stone Gossard ⓘ |
| composer | Eddie Vedder ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | rock ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
compact disc audio
ⓘ
digital audio ⓘ |
| hasProducer | Brendan O'Brien ⓘ |
| hasType | album track ⓘ |
| includedIn | Pearl Jam discography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Eddie Vedder ⓘ |
| medium | studio album track ⓘ |
| partOf | Backspacer ⓘ |
| performer | Pearl Jam ⓘ |
| performingArtistNationality | American ⓘ |
| production | produced by Brendan O'Brien ⓘ |
| publisher | Monkeywrench Records ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Pearl Jam ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Monkeywrench Records ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 2000s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| trackNumberOnAlbum | Backspacer track (exact position varies by edition) ⓘ |
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: Speed of Sound Description of subject: "Speed of Sound" is a song titled track, likely a rock composition, featured on Pearl Jam’s album *Backspacer*.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.