Alabama Shakes
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Alabama Shakes is an American rock band known for its soulful blend of blues, roots rock, and R&B, fronted by powerhouse vocalist and guitarist Brittany Howard.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T471420 — 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: Alabama Shakes Context triple: [Brittany Howard, memberOf, Alabama Shakes]
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A.
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, known for hits like "Use Somebody" and "Sex on Fire" and for blending Southern rock, alternative, and arena rock styles.
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B.
Dawes
Dawes is an American folk-rock band known for its Laurel Canyon-inspired sound and introspective songwriting.
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Brittany Howard
Brittany Howard is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the powerhouse lead vocalist of Alabama Shakes and for her acclaimed solo work blending rock, soul, and blues.
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D.
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band known for its grand, orchestral sound, emotionally charged lyrics, and critically acclaimed albums like "Funeral" and "The Suburbs."
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E.
Gaslight Anthem
Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Jersey known for its heartland punk sound, blue-collar storytelling, and frequent comparisons to Bruce Springsteen.
- 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: Alabama Shakes Target entity description: Alabama Shakes is an American rock band known for its soulful blend of blues, roots rock, and R&B, fronted by powerhouse vocalist and guitarist Brittany Howard.
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A.
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, known for hits like "Use Somebody" and "Sex on Fire" and for blending Southern rock, alternative, and arena rock styles.
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B.
Dawes
Dawes is an American folk-rock band known for its Laurel Canyon-inspired sound and introspective songwriting.
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C.
Brittany Howard
Brittany Howard is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the powerhouse lead vocalist of Alabama Shakes and for her acclaimed solo work blending rock, soul, and blues.
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D.
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band known for its grand, orchestral sound, emotionally charged lyrics, and critically acclaimed albums like "Funeral" and "The Suburbs."
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E.
Gaslight Anthem
Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Jersey known for its heartland punk sound, blue-collar storytelling, and frequent comparisons to Bruce Springsteen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Alabama Shakes Description of subject: Alabama Shakes is an American rock band known for its soulful blend of blues, roots rock, and R&B, fronted by powerhouse vocalist and guitarist Brittany Howard.
Referenced by (82)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bermuda Triangle
subject surface form:
Sound & Color
subject surface form:
Sound & Color
subject surface form:
Sound & Color
subject surface form:
Sound & Color
this entity surface form:
Alabama Shakes discography
subject surface form:
Boys & Girls
subject surface form:
Boys & Girls
subject surface form:
Boys & Girls
subject surface form:
Boys & Girls
this entity surface form:
The Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (album) (producer/engineer)
this entity surface form:
Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (album) (Grammy-nominated) (producer/engineer)