The Blasters
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The Blasters are an American rock band known for their high-energy blend of rockabilly, roots rock, and rhythm and blues that emerged from the early 1980s Los Angeles music scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Blasters canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9983761 — 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 Blasters Context triple: [Streets of Fire, featuresPerformer, The Blasters]
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A.
The Blasters
The Blasters is the popular nickname of Kerala Blasters FC, a widely supported professional football club based in Kochi that competes in the Indian Super League.
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B.
The Hot Band
The Hot Band was Emmylou Harris’s acclaimed backing group in the 1970s, known for its virtuoso country-rock musicians and influential role in shaping her signature sound.
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C.
The Bulletboys
The Bulletboys are an American hard rock and glam metal band that emerged in the late 1980s Los Angeles scene, known for their energetic style and MTV-era popularity.
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D.
The Bandits
"The Bandits" is a lesser-known ballet composed by Ludwig Minkus, reflecting his characteristic 19th-century Romantic style for the stage.
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E.
The James Gang
The James Gang was an American rock band formed in the late 1960s, best known for its hard rock sound and for launching guitarist Joe Walsh’s career.
- 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 Blasters Target entity description: The Blasters are an American rock band known for their high-energy blend of rockabilly, roots rock, and rhythm and blues that emerged from the early 1980s Los Angeles music scene.
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A.
The Blasters
The Blasters is the popular nickname of Kerala Blasters FC, a widely supported professional football club based in Kochi that competes in the Indian Super League.
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B.
The Hot Band
The Hot Band was Emmylou Harris’s acclaimed backing group in the 1970s, known for its virtuoso country-rock musicians and influential role in shaping her signature sound.
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C.
The Bulletboys
The Bulletboys are an American hard rock and glam metal band that emerged in the late 1980s Los Angeles scene, known for their energetic style and MTV-era popularity.
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D.
The Bandits
"The Bandits" is a lesser-known ballet composed by Ludwig Minkus, reflecting his characteristic 19th-century Romantic style for the stage.
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E.
The James Gang
The James Gang was an American rock band formed in the late 1960s, best known for its hard rock sound and for launching guitarist Joe Walsh’s career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rock band ⓘ |
| activeFrom | 1979 ⓘ |
| album |
American Music
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hard Line NERFINISHED ⓘ Non Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blasters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Los Lobos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Knitters NERFINISHED ⓘ X ⓘ |
| associatedWithScene |
Los Angeles punk scene
ⓘ
early 1980s Los Angeles music scene ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | 1980s ⓘ |
| formerMember | Dave Alvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder |
Dave Alvin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phil Alvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Americana
ⓘ
cowpunk ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ rockabilly ⓘ roots revival ⓘ roots rock ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
high-energy live performances
ⓘ
reviving American roots music ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
classic rhythm and blues
ⓘ
country music ⓘ early rock and roll ⓘ rockabilly ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| member |
Bill Bateman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Alvin NERFINISHED ⓘ Gene Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ John Bazz NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Alvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongwriter | Dave Alvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Music
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Border Radio NERFINISHED ⓘ Dark Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Marie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Downey, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Slash Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic | blend of rockabilly, roots rock, and rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| tourHistory |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States 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 Blasters Description of subject: The Blasters are an American rock band known for their high-energy blend of rockabilly, roots rock, and rhythm and blues that emerged from the early 1980s Los Angeles music scene.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.