Excuse 17
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Excuse 17 was a 1990s American punk band associated with the riot grrrl movement and known for featuring musician and writer Carrie Brownstein.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Excuse 17 canonical | 2 |
| Excuse 17 / Lync split single | 1 |
| Excuse Seventeen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9429833 — 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: Excuse 17 Context triple: [Carrie Brownstein, memberOf, Excuse 17]
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A.
A Plea for Excuses
A Plea for Excuses is a seminal philosophical essay by J. L. Austin that analyzes ordinary language and the ways people use excuses to navigate responsibility and blame.
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B.
No Excuses
"No Excuses" is a 1994 grunge/alternative rock song by Alice in Chains, known for its acoustic sound, introspective lyrics, and success as a major rock radio hit.
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C.
I Made My Excuses and Left
"I Made My Excuses and Left" is a melancholic synth-pop song by Pet Shop Boys, noted for its narrative of quiet emotional withdrawal and its lush, orchestral production.
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D.
No More Excuses
"No More Excuses" is a 1968 underground satirical comedy film by Robert Downey Sr. known for its absurdist sketches and countercultural humor.
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E.
Troublemaker
"Troublemaker" is a catchy pop song by English singer Olly Murs, featuring rapper Flo Rida, known for its upbeat melody and chart success.
- 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: Excuse 17 Target entity description: Excuse 17 was a 1990s American punk band associated with the riot grrrl movement and known for featuring musician and writer Carrie Brownstein.
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A.
A Plea for Excuses
A Plea for Excuses is a seminal philosophical essay by J. L. Austin that analyzes ordinary language and the ways people use excuses to navigate responsibility and blame.
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B.
No Excuses
"No Excuses" is a 1994 grunge/alternative rock song by Alice in Chains, known for its acoustic sound, introspective lyrics, and success as a major rock radio hit.
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C.
I Made My Excuses and Left
"I Made My Excuses and Left" is a melancholic synth-pop song by Pet Shop Boys, noted for its narrative of quiet emotional withdrawal and its lush, orchestral production.
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D.
No More Excuses
"No More Excuses" is a 1968 underground satirical comedy film by Robert Downey Sr. known for its absurdist sketches and countercultural humor.
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E.
Troublemaker
"Troublemaker" is a catchy pop song by English singer Olly Murs, featuring rapper Flo Rida, known for its upbeat melody and chart success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Excuse 17 Description of subject: Excuse 17 was a 1990s American punk band associated with the riot grrrl movement and known for featuring musician and writer Carrie Brownstein.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Excuse 17