Shock Machine
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Shock Machine is the solo musical project of James Righton, blending synth-driven pop and psychedelic influences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shock Machine (album) | 2 |
| Shock Machine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11203120 — 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: Shock Machine Context triple: [James Righton, associatedAct, Shock Machine]
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A.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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B.
Pretty Hate Machine
Pretty Hate Machine is the 1989 debut studio album by industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails, known for its dark electronic sound and emotionally intense songwriting.
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C.
Bone Machine
"Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
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D.
Bone Machine
Bone Machine is a critically acclaimed 1992 album by Tom Waits known for its dark, percussive sound and apocalyptic, death-obsessed themes.
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E.
Frankie Machine
Frankie Machine is the troubled, heroin-addicted card dealer and aspiring drummer at the center of Nelson Algren’s novel and its film adaptation The Man with the Golden Arm.
- 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: Shock Machine Target entity description: Shock Machine is the solo musical project of James Righton, blending synth-driven pop and psychedelic influences.
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A.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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B.
Pretty Hate Machine
Pretty Hate Machine is the 1989 debut studio album by industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails, known for its dark electronic sound and emotionally intense songwriting.
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C.
Bone Machine
"Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
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D.
Bone Machine
Bone Machine is a critically acclaimed 1992 album by Tom Waits known for its dark, percussive sound and apocalyptic, death-obsessed themes.
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E.
Frankie Machine
Frankie Machine is the troubled, heroin-addicted card dealer and aspiring drummer at the center of Nelson Algren’s novel and its film adaptation The Man with the Golden Arm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music artist
ⓘ
musical project ⓘ solo project ⓘ |
| activeStart | 2016 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
James Righton
ⓘ
Klaxons ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | James Righton ⓘ |
| genre |
indie pop
ⓘ
psychedelic pop ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasEP | Open Up The Sky ⓘ |
| hasFormerBandAffiliation | Klaxons ⓘ |
| hasMember | James Righton ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | http://www.shockmachine.co.uk/ ⓘ |
| hasSingle |
Lost In The Mystery
ⓘ
Open Up The Sky (song) ⓘ
linked to:
Open Up The Sky
Shock Machine (song) ⓘ
linked to:
Shockmachine
Unlimited Love ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
1970s pop
ⓘ
psychedelic music ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Open Up The Sky
ⓘ
Shock Machine (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Shock Machine
|
| recordLabel |
Marathon Artists
ⓘ
Pias ⓘ |
| release |
Shock Machine (album)
ⓘ
linked to:
Shock Machine
|
| usesInstrument |
guitar
ⓘ
keyboards ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | male vocals ⓘ |
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: Shock Machine Description of subject: Shock Machine is the solo musical project of James Righton, blending synth-driven pop and psychedelic influences.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shock Machine
linked to: Shock Machine