The Breeders
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The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed by Pixies bassist Kim Deal, known for their 1990s indie hits and influential album "Last Splash."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Breeders canonical | 86 |
| American alternative rock band The Breeders | 1 |
| The Breeders albums | 1 |
| breakthrough album for The Breeders | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T767653 — 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 Breeders Context triple: [Steve Albini, workedWith, The Breeders]
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A.
Against the Day
Against the Day is a sprawling, genre-blending historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, weaving together adventure, science, politics, and metaphysical speculation.
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B.
Pixies
Pixies are an influential American alternative rock band formed in the late 1980s, known for their loud-quiet-loud dynamics, surreal lyrics, and major impact on the grunge and indie rock movements.
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C.
Pavement
Pavement is an influential American indie rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and major impact on 1990s alternative music.
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D.
The Red Krayola
The Red Krayola is an experimental rock band formed in the 1960s known for its avant-garde, psychedelic sound and influential role in underground music.
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E.
Blind Melon
Blind Melon is an American alternative rock band best known for their early 1990s hit "No Rain" and their distinctive blend of psychedelic and folk-influenced rock.
- 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 Breeders Target entity description: The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed by Pixies bassist Kim Deal, known for their 1990s indie hits and influential album "Last Splash."
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A.
Against the Day
Against the Day is a sprawling, genre-blending historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, weaving together adventure, science, politics, and metaphysical speculation.
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B.
Pixies
Pixies are an influential American alternative rock band formed in the late 1980s, known for their loud-quiet-loud dynamics, surreal lyrics, and major impact on the grunge and indie rock movements.
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C.
Pavement
Pavement is an influential American indie rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and major impact on 1990s alternative music.
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D.
The Red Krayola
The Red Krayola is an experimental rock band formed in the 1960s known for its avant-garde, psychedelic sound and influential role in underground music.
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E.
Blind Melon
Blind Melon is an American alternative rock band best known for their early 1990s hit "No Rain" and their distinctive blend of psychedelic and folk-influenced rock.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (78)
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 Breeders Description of subject: The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed by Pixies bassist Kim Deal, known for their 1990s indie hits and influential album "Last Splash."
Referenced by (89)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Breeders