The 88
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The 88 is an American rock band best known for its catchy, guitar-driven pop-rock sound and for contributing music to various television shows and films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The 88 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9451950 — 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: The 88 Context triple: [Community, openingThemePerformer, The 88]
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A.
Eighty-Eight
Eighty-Eight is a full-size automobile model produced by Oldsmobile that became one of the brand’s most popular and enduring nameplates in the mid-20th century American car market.
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B.
Super 88
Super 88 is a higher-performance, more upscale variant of the Oldsmobile 88 full-size automobile produced by Oldsmobile in the mid-20th century.
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C.
The Eight
The Eight was a group of early 20th-century American painters who rebelled against academic art standards and helped pave the way for the Ashcan School and modern American art.
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D.
Hohe Acht
Hohe Acht is the highest peak in Germany’s Eifel region, known for its volcanic origins and panoramic views.
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E.
The 878
The 878 is a short, partially completed highway in Nassau County, New York, serving as a key connector between the Belt Parkway/Conduit Avenue in Queens and the Atlantic Beach Bridge near the South Shore.
- 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: The 88 Target entity description: The 88 is an American rock band best known for its catchy, guitar-driven pop-rock sound and for contributing music to various television shows and films.
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A.
Eighty-Eight
Eighty-Eight is a full-size automobile model produced by Oldsmobile that became one of the brand’s most popular and enduring nameplates in the mid-20th century American car market.
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B.
Super 88
Super 88 is a higher-performance, more upscale variant of the Oldsmobile 88 full-size automobile produced by Oldsmobile in the mid-20th century.
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C.
The Eight
The Eight was a group of early 20th-century American painters who rebelled against academic art standards and helped pave the way for the Ashcan School and modern American art.
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D.
Hohe Acht
Hohe Acht is the highest peak in Germany’s Eifel region, known for its volcanic origins and panoramic views.
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E.
The 878
The 878 is a short, partially completed highway in Nassau County, New York, serving as a key connector between the Belt Parkway/Conduit Avenue in Queens and the Atlantic Beach Bridge near the South Shore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rock band ⓘ |
| activeIn |
2000s
ⓘ
2010s ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Ray Davies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The B-52s NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
indie rock
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ power pop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasAlbum |
Fortune Teller
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kind of Light NERFINISHED ⓘ No One Here NERFINISHED ⓘ Not Only... But Also NERFINISHED ⓘ Over and Over NERFINISHED ⓘ The 88 (self-titled album) NERFINISHED ⓘ This Must Be Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Adam Merrin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anthony Zimmitti NERFINISHED ⓘ Brent Kuhn NERFINISHED ⓘ Keith Slettedahl NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd O’Keefe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
hook-heavy pop songwriting
ⓘ
melodic guitar-driven arrangements ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.the88.net/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
catchy guitar-driven pop-rock sound
ⓘ
contributing music to films ⓘ contributing music to television shows ⓘ |
| notableWork |
song "All 'Cause of You"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
song "At Least It Was Here" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Coming Home" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Hide Another Mistake" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "How Good It Can Be" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Nobody Cares" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | band ⓘ |
| performedAs |
backing band for Ray Davies
ⓘ
opening act for The B-52s ⓘ |
| songFeaturedIn |
film "Failure to Launch"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
film "The Wedding Planner" NERFINISHED ⓘ film "You, Me and Dupree" NERFINISHED ⓘ television series "Community" ⓘ television series "Grey's Anatomy" NERFINISHED ⓘ television series "How I Met Your Mother" NERFINISHED ⓘ television series "One Tree Hill" NERFINISHED ⓘ television series "The O.C." NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The 88 Description of subject: The 88 is an American rock band best known for its catchy, guitar-driven pop-rock sound and for contributing music to various television shows and films.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.