Semisonic
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Semisonic is an American alternative rock band best known for their late-1990s hit single "Closing Time."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Semisonic canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7645250 — 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: Semisonic Context triple: [Dan Wilson, notableWork, Semisonic]
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A.
The Fray
The Fray is an American rock band from Denver, Colorado, best known for their piano-driven pop-rock sound and hits like "How to Save a Life" and "Over My Head (Cable Car)."
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B.
Counting Crows
Counting Crows is an American rock band, formed in the early 1990s, known for their introspective lyrics and hits like "Mr. Jones" and "Accidentally in Love."
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C.
Gin Blossoms
Gin Blossoms are an American rock band best known for their melodic jangle-pop sound and 1990s hits like "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You."
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D.
Hanson
Hanson is an American pop-rock band best known for their 1997 hit single "MMMBop."
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E.
Hanson
Hanson is a surname most notably associated with American film director and screenwriter Curtis Hanson.
- 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: Semisonic Target entity description: Semisonic is an American alternative rock band best known for their late-1990s hit single "Closing Time."
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A.
The Fray
The Fray is an American rock band from Denver, Colorado, best known for their piano-driven pop-rock sound and hits like "How to Save a Life" and "Over My Head (Cable Car)."
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B.
Counting Crows
Counting Crows is an American rock band, formed in the early 1990s, known for their introspective lyrics and hits like "Mr. Jones" and "Accidentally in Love."
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C.
Gin Blossoms
Gin Blossoms are an American rock band best known for their melodic jangle-pop sound and 1990s hits like "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You."
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D.
Hanson
Hanson is a surname most notably associated with American film director and screenwriter Curtis Hanson.
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E.
Hanson
Hanson is a small town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, known for its suburban residential character and New England charm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Semisonic Description of subject: Semisonic is an American alternative rock band best known for their late-1990s hit single "Closing Time."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.