Toto (band)
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Toto is an American rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished musicianship and hit songs like "Africa" and "Rosanna."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rosanna (as member of Toto) | 1 |
| Toto (band) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9623416 — 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: Toto (band) Context triple: [Dune (1984 film), musicBy, Toto (band)]
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A.
Timbiriche
Timbiriche is a famous Mexican pop music group formed in the early 1980s that became one of Latin America's most successful teen bands.
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B.
S.O.S. Band
The S.O.S. Band is an American R&B and electro-funk group best known for their early-1980s hits like "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" and their influential, polished sound.
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C.
Tup
Tup is a town in Kyrgyzstan that serves as one of the main urban centers of the Issyk-Kul Region.
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D.
The Tokens
The Tokens were an American doo-wop vocal group best known for their 1961 hit recording of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
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E.
Ione Band
Ione Band is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Miwok people based in Amador County, California.
- 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: Toto (band) Target entity description: Toto is an American rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished musicianship and hit songs like "Africa" and "Rosanna."
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A.
Timbiriche
Timbiriche is a famous Mexican pop music group formed in the early 1980s that became one of Latin America's most successful teen bands.
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B.
S.O.S. Band
The S.O.S. Band is an American R&B and electro-funk group best known for their early-1980s hits like "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" and their influential, polished sound.
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C.
Tup
Tup is a town in Kyrgyzstan that serves as one of the main urban centers of the Issyk-Kul Region.
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D.
The Tokens
The Tokens were an American doo-wop vocal group best known for their 1961 hit recording of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
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E.
Ione Band
Ione Band is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Miwok people based in Amador County, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (81)
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: Toto (band) Description of subject: Toto is an American rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished musicianship and hit songs like "Africa" and "Rosanna."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Toto (band)