Spike
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Spike is a 1989 studio album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello that blends rock, pop, and experimental influences and features the hit single "Veronica."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spike canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10007074 — 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)
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Target entity: Spike Context triple: [Elvis Costello, notableWork, Spike]
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Spike
Spike is a reference RISC-V instruction set simulator used to model, test, and validate RISC-V processor implementations.
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Spike
Spike is the nickname of Spike Dykes, a prominent American college football coach best known for his long tenure leading the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
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Spike
Spike was a U.S. cable television channel (later rebranded as Paramount Network) known for male-oriented and pop-culture programming, including reality and competition shows.
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Spike
Spike is a component or segment of the multimedia project "Money Money 2020," likely serving as one of its distinct tracks or narrative parts.
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Spike
Spike is the official mascot of the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Elks team.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spike Target entity description: Spike is a 1989 studio album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello that blends rock, pop, and experimental influences and features the hit single "Veronica."
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Spike
Spike is a track from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1985 album "Southern Accents," known for its satirical take on punk fashion and culture.
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Spike
"Spike" is a song by the British post-punk band The Network, known for its quirky, synth-driven style and satirical edge.
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Spike
Spike is the costumed mascot of the Round Rock Express minor league baseball team, entertaining fans at their games and events.
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Spike
Spike is the eccentric, slovenly Welsh flatmate of William Thacker in the romantic comedy film "Notting Hill."
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Spike
Spike is a component or segment of the multimedia project "Money Money 2020," likely serving as one of its distinct tracks or narrative parts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Elvis Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronology | Elvis Costello studio albums ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describedBySource | music journalism ⓘ |
| featuresSongwritingCollaborationWith | Paul McCartney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Mighty Like a Rose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Blood & Chocolate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
art rock ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ pop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasContributor | Paul McCartney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverArt | Spike (Elvis Costello album cover) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluence |
experimental music
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pop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 64 minutes ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Any King’s Shilling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baby Plays Around NERFINISHED ⓘ Coal-Train Robberies NERFINISHED ⓘ Deep Dark Truthful Mirror NERFINISHED ⓘ God’s Comic NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Boat Leaving NERFINISHED ⓘ Let Him Dangle NERFINISHED ⓘ Pads, Paws and Claws NERFINISHED ⓘ Satellite ⓘ Tramp the Dirt Down NERFINISHED ⓘ Veronica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSingle |
Baby Plays Around
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tramp the Dirt Down NERFINISHED ⓘ Veronica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStyle | eclectic ⓘ |
| hasType | solo album ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainGenre | rock ⓘ |
| musicBrainzType | Album ⓘ |
| notableWork | Veronica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Elvis Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Elvis Costello
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kevin Killen NERFINISHED ⓘ T Bone Burnett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1989-02-14 ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
1987
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1988 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
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: Spike Description of subject: Spike is a 1989 studio album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello that blends rock, pop, and experimental influences and features the hit single "Veronica."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.