Lemmy Kilmister
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Lemmy Kilmister was the iconic British bassist, vocalist, and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Motörhead, renowned for his gravelly voice, aggressive playing style, and influential role in rock and metal music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lemmy Kilmister canonical | 17 |
| Lemmy | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13025550 — 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: Lemmy Kilmister Context triple: [Lemmy Koopa, namedAfter, Lemmy Kilmister]
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A.
Oz Osborne
Oz Osborne is a central character in the British comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet," known as one of the group of Geordie construction workers seeking employment abroad.
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B.
Ronnie James Dio
Ronnie James Dio was an American heavy metal singer and songwriter renowned for his powerful operatic voice and influential work with bands like Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and his own band Dio.
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C.
Bon Scott
Bon Scott was the charismatic Scottish-born Australian rock singer best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist for AC/DC during their classic 1970s era.
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D.
Paul Di'Anno
Paul Di'Anno is a British heavy metal singer best known as the original lead vocalist on Iron Maiden’s first two studio albums.
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E.
Deryck Cooke
Deryck Cooke was a British musicologist and broadcaster best known for his performing version of Gustav Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony.
- 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: Lemmy Kilmister Target entity description: Lemmy Kilmister was the iconic British bassist, vocalist, and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Motörhead, renowned for his gravelly voice, aggressive playing style, and influential role in rock and metal music.
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A.
Oz Osborne
Oz Osborne is a central character in the British comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet," known as one of the group of Geordie construction workers seeking employment abroad.
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B.
Ronnie James Dio
Ronnie James Dio was an American heavy metal singer and songwriter renowned for his powerful operatic voice and influential work with bands like Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and his own band Dio.
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C.
Bon Scott
Bon Scott was the charismatic Scottish-born Australian rock singer best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist for AC/DC during their classic 1970s era.
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D.
Paul Di'Anno
Paul Di'Anno is a British heavy metal singer best known as the original lead vocalist on Iron Maiden’s first two studio albums.
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E.
Deryck Cooke
Deryck Cooke was a British musicologist and broadcaster best known for his performing version of Gustav Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
bassist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Hawkwind
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Headcat ⓘ Motörhead ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
cardiac arrhythmia
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congestive heart failure ⓘ prostate cancer ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfBirth | 1945-12-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-12-28 ⓘ |
| familyName | Kilmister ⓘ |
| founderOf | Motörhead ⓘ |
| fullName | Ian Fraser Kilmister ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
heavy metal ⓘ punk rock ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ speed metal ⓘ |
| givenName | Ian ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
heavy metal
ⓘ
punk rock ⓘ speed metal ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fronting Motörhead
ⓘ
influential role in rock and metal music ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Hawkwind
ⓘ
Headcat ⓘ Motörhead ⓘ The Head Cat ⓘ The Rockin' Vickers ⓘ |
| middleName | Fraser ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ace of Spades
ⓘ
Bomber ⓘ Overkill ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Stoke-on-Trent ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| playingStyle | aggressive bass playing ⓘ |
| positionInBand |
bassist of Motörhead
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lead vocalist of Motörhead ⓘ primary songwriter of Motörhead ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| stageName |
Lemmy
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linked to:
Lemmy Kilmister
|
| vocalStyle | gravelly voice ⓘ |
| voiceType | raspy baritone ⓘ |
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: Lemmy Kilmister Description of subject: Lemmy Kilmister was the iconic British bassist, vocalist, and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Motörhead, renowned for his gravelly voice, aggressive playing style, and influential role in rock and metal music.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
solo album "No More Tears"
subject linked to:
solo album "No More Tears"
subject linked to:
song "Mama, I'm Coming Home"
subject linked to:
song "Mama, I'm Coming Home"
subject linked to:
Rickenbacker 4001 bass
linked to: Lemmy Kilmister
subject linked to:
Detective Curtis Lemansky
linked to: Lemmy Kilmister