Faith No More
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Faith No More is an American rock band known for pioneering alternative metal by blending heavy metal, funk, punk, and experimental elements, most famously on their 1989 album "The Real Thing."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Faith No More canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4273347 — 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: Faith No More Context triple: [Hole, associatedAct, Faith No More]
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A.
Pantera
Pantera is a pioneering American heavy metal band known for shaping the groove metal subgenre with their aggressive sound and powerful riffs.
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B.
Deftones
Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, known for blending heavy riffs with atmospheric and experimental soundscapes.
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C.
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band, prominent in the 1990s alternative rock and grunge scenes, known for hits like "Plush," "Interstate Love Song," and "Vasoline."
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D.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band known for fusing rap, metal, and politically charged lyrics to become one of the most influential alternative acts of the 1990s.
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E.
Ministry
Ministry is an influential American industrial metal band, led by Al Jourgensen, known for pioneering the aggressive, politically charged sound that defined much of the industrial genre in the late 1980s and 1990s.
- 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: Faith No More Target entity description: Faith No More is an American rock band known for pioneering alternative metal by blending heavy metal, funk, punk, and experimental elements, most famously on their 1989 album "The Real Thing."
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A.
Pantera
Pantera is a pioneering American heavy metal band known for shaping the groove metal subgenre with their aggressive sound and powerful riffs.
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B.
Deftones
Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, known for blending heavy riffs with atmospheric and experimental soundscapes.
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C.
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band, prominent in the 1990s alternative rock and grunge scenes, known for hits like "Plush," "Interstate Love Song," and "Vasoline."
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D.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band known for fusing rap, metal, and politically charged lyrics to become one of the most influential alternative acts of the 1990s.
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E.
Ministry
Ministry is an influential American industrial metal band, led by Al Jourgensen, known for pioneering the aggressive, politically charged sound that defined much of the industrial genre in the late 1980s and 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
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rock band ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Faith. No Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerMember |
Chuck Mosley
NERFINISHED
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Courtney Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Dean Menta NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ Trey Spruance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative metal
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alternative rock ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ funk metal ⓘ hard rock ⓘ heavy metal ⓘ post-punk ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
alternative metal bands
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nu metal ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Billy Gould
NERFINISHED
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Jon Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Bordin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Patton NERFINISHED ⓘ Roddy Bottum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1979 ⓘ |
| notableSong |
A Small Victory
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ashes to Ashes NERFINISHED ⓘ Evidence NERFINISHED ⓘ From Out of Nowhere NERFINISHED ⓘ We Care a Lot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Album of the Year
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Angel Dust NERFINISHED ⓘ Easy NERFINISHED ⓘ Epic NERFINISHED ⓘ Falling to Pieces NERFINISHED ⓘ King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime NERFINISHED ⓘ Midlife Crisis NERFINISHED ⓘ Sol Invictus NERFINISHED ⓘ The Real Thing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | San Francisco, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Ipecac Recordings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reprise Records ⓘ Slash Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
breakup in 1998
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reunion in 2009 ⓘ |
| studioAlbum |
Album of the Year
NERFINISHED
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Angel Dust NERFINISHED ⓘ Introduce Yourself NERFINISHED ⓘ King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime NERFINISHED ⓘ Sol Invictus NERFINISHED ⓘ The Real Thing NERFINISHED ⓘ We Care a Lot 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: Faith No More Description of subject: Faith No More is an American rock band known for pioneering alternative metal by blending heavy metal, funk, punk, and experimental elements, most famously on their 1989 album "The Real Thing."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.