Radio Rock crew
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Radio Rock crew is the fictional group of rebellious DJs and staff aboard the pirate radio ship in the film "Pirate Radio" (also known as "The Boat That Rocked"), broadcasting rock music illegally to the UK in the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Radio Rock crew canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8155063 — 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: Radio Rock crew Context triple: [The Count, loyalTo, Radio Rock crew]
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A.
Rockers
Rockers is the abbreviated name used for the High Point Rockers, an independent professional baseball team based in High Point, North Carolina.
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B.
The James Gang
The James Gang was an American rock band formed in the late 1960s, best known for its hard rock sound and for launching guitarist Joe Walsh’s career.
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C.
Beck, Bogert & Appice
Beck, Bogert & Appice was a short-lived early-1970s rock supergroup featuring guitarist Jeff Beck, bassist Tim Bogert, and drummer Carmine Appice, known for their heavy blues-rock sound.
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D.
The Standells
The Standells are an American rock band formed in the 1960s, best known for their influential garage rock hit "Dirty Water."
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E.
REO Speedwagon
REO Speedwagon is an American rock band, formed in the late 1960s, best known for its arena rock sound and hit power ballads like "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling."
- 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: Radio Rock crew Target entity description: Radio Rock crew is the fictional group of rebellious DJs and staff aboard the pirate radio ship in the film "Pirate Radio" (also known as "The Boat That Rocked"), broadcasting rock music illegally to the UK in the 1960s.
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A.
Rockers
Rockers is the abbreviated name used for the High Point Rockers, an independent professional baseball team based in High Point, North Carolina.
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B.
The James Gang
The James Gang was an American rock band formed in the late 1960s, best known for its hard rock sound and for launching guitarist Joe Walsh’s career.
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C.
Beck, Bogert & Appice
Beck, Bogert & Appice was a short-lived early-1970s rock supergroup featuring guitarist Jeff Beck, bassist Tim Bogert, and drummer Carmine Appice, known for their heavy blues-rock sound.
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D.
The Standells
The Standells are an American rock band formed in the 1960s, best known for their influential garage rock hit "Dirty Water."
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E.
REO Speedwagon
REO Speedwagon is an American rock band, formed in the late 1960s, best known for its arena rock sound and hit power ballads like "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional group
ⓘ
group of characters ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
2009 film The Boat That Rocked
ⓘ
linked to:
The Boat That Rocked
Pirate Radio ⓘ The Boat That Rocked ⓘ |
| associatedWithMusicEra | 1960s British rock ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
freedom of expression
ⓘ
rebellion against authority ⓘ youth culture ⓘ |
| basedOn | British pirate radio culture ⓘ |
| broadcasts |
1960s rock and pop
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| broadcastsLegalityStatus | illegal ⓘ |
| broadcastTargetAudience | UK listeners ⓘ |
| countryOfBroadcast | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Richard Curtis ⓘ |
| employer | Radio Rock ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Boat That Rocked universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| genreOfStation |
pirate radio
ⓘ
rock radio ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Angus
ⓘ
Bob Silver ⓘ Doctor Dave ⓘ Felix ⓘ Gavin Kavanagh ⓘ
linked to:
Gavin Cavanagh
Harold ⓘ Quentin ⓘ Simple Simon ⓘ The Count ⓘ Thick Kevin ⓘ Twatt ⓘ Young Carl ⓘ newsreader On-The-Hour ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| ledBy | Quentin ⓘ |
| location | North Sea ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist group ⓘ |
| operatesFrom | pirate radio ship ⓘ |
| opposes | British government anti-pirate-radio policy ⓘ |
| partOf | narrative of The Boat That Rocked ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
counterculture figures
ⓘ
radio enthusiasts ⓘ rebellious DJs ⓘ |
| shipName | Radio Rock ship ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
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: Radio Rock crew Description of subject: Radio Rock crew is the fictional group of rebellious DJs and staff aboard the pirate radio ship in the film "Pirate Radio" (also known as "The Boat That Rocked"), broadcasting rock music illegally to the UK in the 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.