Trent Reznor
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Trent Reznor is an American musician, composer, and producer best known as the founder and creative force behind the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails and for his award-winning film scores.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Trent Reznor canonical | 36 |
| Michael Trent Reznor | 1 |
| Reznor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872615 — 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: Trent Reznor Context triple: [Peter Gabriel, notableCollaboration, Trent Reznor]
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A.
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an influential American industrial rock band formed by Trent Reznor, known for its dark, experimental sound and critically acclaimed albums like "The Downward Spiral" and "The Fragile."
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B.
Steve Albini
Steve Albini was an influential American musician, recording engineer, and producer known for his work with underground and alternative rock bands such as Nirvana, Pixies, and PJ Harvey.
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C.
Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Cantrell is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and primary songwriter for the rock band Alice in Chains.
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D.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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E.
Tom Morello
Tom Morello is an American guitarist, songwriter, and political activist best known as the innovative, effects-driven lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.
- 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: Trent Reznor Target entity description: Trent Reznor is an American musician, composer, and producer best known as the founder and creative force behind the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails and for his award-winning film scores.
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A.
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an influential American industrial rock band formed by Trent Reznor, known for its dark, experimental sound and critically acclaimed albums like "The Downward Spiral" and "The Fragile."
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B.
Steve Albini
Steve Albini was an influential American musician, recording engineer, and producer known for his work with underground and alternative rock bands such as Nirvana, Pixies, and PJ Harvey.
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C.
Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Cantrell is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and primary songwriter for the rock band Alice in Chains.
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D.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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E.
Tom Morello
Tom Morello is an American guitarist, songwriter, and political activist best known as the innovative, effects-driven lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Score
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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score ⓘ Grammy Award ⓘ |
| birthName |
Trent Reznor
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Michael Trent Reznor
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| collaboratesWith | Atticus Ross ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-05-17 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Trent Reznor
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Reznor
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| founded | Nine Inch Nails ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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electronic rock ⓘ industrial metal ⓘ industrial rock ⓘ |
| givenName |
Michael
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Trent ⓘ |
| memberOf |
How to Destroy Angels
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Nine Inch Nails ⓘ |
| name | Trent Reznor self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gone Girl (film score)
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Nine Inch Nails ⓘ Pretty Hate Machine ⓘ soundtrack for Soul (2020 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Soul (film score)
The Downward Spiral ⓘ The Fragile ⓘ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (film score) ⓘ The Social Network (film score) ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Mercer, Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States
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| playsInstrument |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| role |
founder of Nine Inch Nails
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lead vocalist of Nine Inch Nails ⓘ primary songwriter of Nine Inch Nails ⓘ |
| spouse | Mariqueen Maandig ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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: Trent Reznor Description of subject: Trent Reznor is an American musician, composer, and producer best known as the founder and creative force behind the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails and for his award-winning film scores.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Michael Trent Reznor
this entity surface form:
Reznor
subject surface form:
Closer (Precursor) (remix)