The Used
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The Used is an American rock band known for its emotionally charged blend of post-hardcore, emo, and alternative rock that rose to prominence in the early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Used canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13028006 — 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 Used Context triple: [My Chemical Romance, associatedAct, The Used]
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A.
Kutless
Kutless is a Christian rock band known for its blend of worship music and alternative rock, gaining popularity in the early 2000s with hits on both Christian and mainstream rock charts.
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B.
Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd is an American post-grunge rock band best known for early-2000s hits like "Blurry," "She Hates Me," and "Control."
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C.
Menomena
Menomena is an experimental indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, known for its inventive song structures, use of looping technology, and critically acclaimed albums on the Barsuk label.
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D.
Young the Giant
Young the Giant is an American indie rock band known for melodic, anthemic songs like "Cough Syrup" and "My Body."
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E.
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band best known for their early 2000s nu metal and alternative rock hits like "Last Resort."
- 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 Used Target entity description: The Used is an American rock band known for its emotionally charged blend of post-hardcore, emo, and alternative rock that rose to prominence in the early 2000s.
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A.
Kutless
Kutless is a Christian rock band known for its blend of worship music and alternative rock, gaining popularity in the early 2000s with hits on both Christian and mainstream rock charts.
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B.
Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd is an American post-grunge rock band best known for early-2000s hits like "Blurry," "She Hates Me," and "Control."
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C.
Menomena
Menomena is an experimental indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, known for its inventive song structures, use of looping technology, and critically acclaimed albums on the Barsuk label.
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D.
Young the Giant
Young the Giant is an American indie rock band known for melodic, anthemic songs like "Cough Syrup" and "My Body."
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E.
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band best known for their early 2000s nu metal and alternative rock hits like "Last Resort."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American rock band
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musical group ⓘ rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
My Chemical Romance
NERFINISHED
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Rancid NERFINISHED ⓘ Saosin NERFINISHED ⓘ Story of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassist | Jeph Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| debutAlbum | The Used (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| drummer | Dan Whitesides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| formerMember |
Branden Steineckert
NERFINISHED
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Quinn Allman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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emo ⓘ hard rock ⓘ pop punk ⓘ post-hardcore ⓘ screamo ⓘ |
| guitarist | Joey Bradford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | post-hardcore scene of the 2000s ⓘ |
| member |
Bert McCracken
NERFINISHED
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Dan Whitesides NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeph Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Joey Bradford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong |
All That I’ve Got
NERFINISHED
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Buried Myself Alive NERFINISHED ⓘ I Caught Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Pretty Handsome Awkward NERFINISHED ⓘ Take It Away NERFINISHED ⓘ The Taste of Ink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Artwork
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Heartwork NERFINISHED ⓘ Imaginary Enemy NERFINISHED ⓘ In Love and Death NERFINISHED ⓘ Lies for the Liars NERFINISHED ⓘ The Canyon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Used (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Toxic Positivity NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulnerable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | musician ⓘ |
| origin | Orem, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Big Noise
NERFINISHED
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Hopeless Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Reprise Records ⓘ |
| secondAlbum | In Love and Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondAlbumReleaseYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Bert McCracken 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 Used Description of subject: The Used is an American rock band known for its emotionally charged blend of post-hardcore, emo, and alternative rock that rose to prominence in the early 2000s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.