The Small Faces
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The Small Faces were a 1960s English rock and rhythm and blues band known for their influential role in the mod movement and hits like "Itchycoo Park" and "Lazy Sunday."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Small Faces | 4 |
| The Small Faces canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6479946 — 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: The Small Faces Context triple: [Runaway, hasCoverVersionBy, The Small Faces]
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A.
The Dave Clark Five
The Dave Clark Five were a popular 1960s English rock and pop band known for hits like "Glad All Over" and for being one of the main chart rivals to The Beatles during the British Invasion.
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B.
The Shadows
The Shadows were a pioneering British instrumental rock group, best known as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their influential, twangy guitar sound that shaped early rock and roll.
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C.
The Seeds
The Seeds were a 1960s American rock band best known for their raw, garage-psych sound and their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard."
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D.
The Merseybeats
The Merseybeats are a 1960s Liverpool beat group associated with the British Invasion era, known for their melodic pop-rock sound and ties to the Merseybeat scene.
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E.
The Troggs
The Troggs are an English rock band best known for their 1966 hit single "Wild Thing" and their influential role in the development of garage rock and proto-punk.
- 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: The Small Faces Target entity description: The Small Faces were a 1960s English rock and rhythm and blues band known for their influential role in the mod movement and hits like "Itchycoo Park" and "Lazy Sunday."
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A.
The Dave Clark Five
The Dave Clark Five were a popular 1960s English rock and pop band known for hits like "Glad All Over" and for being one of the main chart rivals to The Beatles during the British Invasion.
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B.
The Shadows
The Shadows were a pioneering British instrumental rock group, best known as Cliff Richard’s backing band and for their influential, twangy guitar sound that shaped early rock and roll.
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C.
The Seeds
The Seeds were a 1960s American rock band best known for their raw, garage-psych sound and their hit single "Pushin' Too Hard."
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D.
The Merseybeats
The Merseybeats are a 1960s Liverpool beat group associated with the British Invasion era, known for their melodic pop-rock sound and ties to the Merseybeat scene.
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E.
The Troggs
The Troggs are an English rock band best known for their 1966 hit single "Wild Thing" and their influential role in the development of garage rock and proto-punk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English musical group
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rhythm and blues band ⓘ rock band ⓘ |
| activeEndYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| activeStartYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Small Faces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | mod subculture ⓘ |
| bassist | Ronnie Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | UK Singles Chart number-one single All or Nothing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| disbandedInYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| drummer | Kenney Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1960s ⓘ |
| formedInCity | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| formerMember | Jimmy Winston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blue-eyed soul
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mod rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| guitarist | Steve Marriott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inductedInto | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedArtist |
Oasis
NERFINISHED
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Paul Weller NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
Britpop
NERFINISHED
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mod revival ⓘ |
| keyboardist | Ian McLagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Ian McLagan
NERFINISHED
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Kenney Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronnie Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Marriott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
NERFINISHED
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Small Faces (1966 Decca album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Small Faces (1967 Immediate album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongFeature | Itchycoo Park pioneering use of flanging effect ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All or Nothing
NERFINISHED
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Here Come the Nice NERFINISHED ⓘ Itchycoo Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Lazy Sunday NERFINISHED ⓘ Sha-La-La-La-Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Tin Soldier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Decca Records
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Immediate Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reformedAs | Faces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rockAndRollHallOfFameInductionYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic | mod fashion and image ⓘ |
| vocalist | Steve Marriott 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: The Small Faces Description of subject: The Small Faces were a 1960s English rock and rhythm and blues band known for their influential role in the mod movement and hits like "Itchycoo Park" and "Lazy Sunday."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Small Faces
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Small Faces
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Small Faces
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Small Faces