This Strange Engine
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This Strange Engine is a 1997 progressive rock album by British band Marillion, known for its expansive compositions and emotionally charged themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| This Strange Engine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8544546 — 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: This Strange Engine Context triple: [Marillion, notableAlbum, This Strange Engine]
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A.
The Wonder Engine
The Wonder Engine is a humorous and darkly imaginative fantasy novel by T. Kingfisher that continues the adventures begun in Clocktaur War, blending quirky characters, inventive worldbuilding, and sharp dialogue.
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B.
Extraordinary Machine
Extraordinary Machine is Fiona Apple's critically acclaimed third studio album, known for its intricate songwriting, inventive production, and emotionally nuanced lyrics.
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C.
The Mechanical Man
The Mechanical Man was the nickname of Charlie Gehringer, a Hall of Fame second baseman for the Detroit Tigers renowned for his consistent, machine-like excellence in hitting and fielding.
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D.
Phantom Engineer
"Phantom Engineer" is an earlier, alternate version of Bob Dylan's song that later became known as "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry."
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E.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
- 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: This Strange Engine Target entity description: This Strange Engine is a 1997 progressive rock album by British band Marillion, known for its expansive compositions and emotionally charged themes.
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A.
The Wonder Engine
The Wonder Engine is a humorous and darkly imaginative fantasy novel by T. Kingfisher that continues the adventures begun in Clocktaur War, blending quirky characters, inventive worldbuilding, and sharp dialogue.
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B.
Extraordinary Machine
Extraordinary Machine is Fiona Apple's critically acclaimed third studio album, known for its intricate songwriting, inventive production, and emotionally nuanced lyrics.
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C.
The Mechanical Man
The Mechanical Man was the nickname of Charlie Gehringer, a Hall of Fame second baseman for the Detroit Tigers renowned for his consistent, machine-like excellence in hitting and fielding.
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D.
Phantom Engineer
"Phantom Engineer" is an earlier, alternate version of Bob Dylan's song that later became known as "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry."
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E.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
progressive rock album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Marillion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassist | Pete Trewavas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| drummer | Ian Mosley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
neo-progressive rock
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progressive rock ⓘ |
| guitarist | Steve Rothery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
80 Days
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
An Accidental Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Estonia NERFINISHED ⓘ Hope for the Future NERFINISHED ⓘ Man of a Thousand Faces NERFINISHED ⓘ Memory of Water NERFINISHED ⓘ One Fine Day NERFINISHED ⓘ This Strange Engine (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyboardist | Mark Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| longestTrack | This Strange Engine (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longestTrackDuration | approximately 15 minutes ⓘ |
| mainPerformer |
Ian Mosley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Trewavas NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Hogarth NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Rothery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextWork | Radiation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextWorkPublicationDate | 1998 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
emotionally charged themes
ⓘ
expansive compositions ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 8 ⓘ |
| partOf | Marillion discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Marillion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWork | Afraid of Sunlight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWorkPublicationDate | 1995 ⓘ |
| producer |
Dave Meegan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marillion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1997-04-21 ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1996 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Castle Communications
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Raw Power NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trackNumberOf |
80 Days:3
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An Accidental Man:6 ⓘ Estonia:4 ⓘ Hope for the Future:7 ⓘ Man of a Thousand Faces:1 ⓘ Memory of Water:5 ⓘ One Fine Day:2 ⓘ This Strange Engine (song):8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Steve Hogarth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: This Strange Engine Description of subject: This Strange Engine is a 1997 progressive rock album by British band Marillion, known for its expansive compositions and emotionally charged themes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.