Big Science
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Big Science is Laurie Anderson’s groundbreaking 1982 debut album that blends experimental electronic music, spoken word, and avant-garde performance art.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big Science canonical | 3 |
| Big Science (title track) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8787350 — 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: Big Science Context triple: [Laurie Anderson, notableWork, Big Science]
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A.
Reflections on Big Science
Reflections on Big Science is a book by nuclear physicist and science administrator Alvin M. Weinberg that examines the rise, impact, and societal implications of large-scale scientific enterprises in the modern era.
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B.
Science Inc.
Science Inc. is a consumer products company known for developing and marketing innovative, data-driven brands such as the meal replacement drink Soylent.
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C.
The Value of Science
The Value of Science is an influential philosophical work by Henri Poincaré that explores the nature, methods, and limits of scientific knowledge.
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D.
In the Name of Science
In the Name of Science is the original title of Martin Gardner’s influential 1950 book critically examining pseudoscience and popular scientific misconceptions.
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E.
The New Science
The New Science is Giambattista Vico’s seminal 18th-century philosophical work that proposes a cyclical theory of history and lays early foundations for the modern human and social sciences.
- 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: Big Science Target entity description: Big Science is Laurie Anderson’s groundbreaking 1982 debut album that blends experimental electronic music, spoken word, and avant-garde performance art.
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A.
Reflections on Big Science
Reflections on Big Science is a book by nuclear physicist and science administrator Alvin M. Weinberg that examines the rise, impact, and societal implications of large-scale scientific enterprises in the modern era.
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B.
Science Inc.
Science Inc. is a consumer products company known for developing and marketing innovative, data-driven brands such as the meal replacement drink Soylent.
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C.
The Value of Science
The Value of Science is an influential philosophical work by Henri Poincaré that explores the nature, methods, and limits of scientific knowledge.
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D.
In the Name of Science
In the Name of Science is the original title of Martin Gardner’s influential 1950 book critically examining pseudoscience and popular scientific misconceptions.
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E.
The New Science
The New Science is Giambattista Vico’s seminal 18th-century philosophical work that proposes a cyclical theory of history and lays early foundations for the modern human and social sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
debut album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Laurie Anderson ⓘ |
| basedOn | United States Live performance pieces ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKAlbums | 29 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboard200 | 124 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed by music critics ⓘ |
| describedAs | groundbreaking debut album ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| follows |
O Superman (single)
ⓘ
linked to:
O Superman
|
| genre |
art pop
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avant-garde ⓘ electronic music ⓘ experimental music ⓘ spoken word ⓘ |
| hasCoverArt | photograph of Laurie Anderson with car and highway lights ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
drum machines
ⓘ
synthesizers ⓘ violin ⓘ vocoders ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Big Science (title track)
ⓘ
linked to:
Big Science
Born, Never Asked ⓘ From the Air ⓘ It Tango ⓘ Let X=X ⓘ O Superman ⓘ Ode ⓘ Sweaters ⓘ Walking and Falling ⓘ |
| hasSingle | O Superman ⓘ |
| incorporatesElement |
minimalism
ⓘ
performance art ⓘ spoken word narrative ⓘ |
| influenced |
electronic art music
ⓘ
experimental pop artists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approx. 44:00 ⓘ |
| mediaType |
compact disc
ⓘ
digital download ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Laurie Anderson ⓘ |
| performer | Laurie Anderson ⓘ |
| producer |
Laurie Anderson
ⓘ
Perry Hoberman ⓘ Roma Baran ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1981 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1982-04-19 ⓘ |
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: Big Science Description of subject: Big Science is Laurie Anderson’s groundbreaking 1982 debut album that blends experimental electronic music, spoken word, and avant-garde performance art.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Big Science