Perry Farrell
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Perry Farrell is an American singer, songwriter, and frontman of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, best known as a pioneering figure in the 1990s alternative music scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perry Farrell canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5001471 — 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: Perry Farrell Context triple: [Lollapalooza, foundedBy, Perry Farrell]
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A.
Dave Krusen
Dave Krusen is an American rock drummer best known for playing on Pearl Jam’s debut album "Ten."
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B.
Sid Phillips
Sid Phillips is the sadistic, toy-destroying neighborhood bully who serves as the primary human antagonist in Pixar's original Toy Story film.
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C.
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale is a British musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Bush.
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D.
David Yow
David Yow is an American musician best known as the intense and charismatic lead vocalist of the noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
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E.
Joey Santiago
Joey Santiago is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Pixies.
- 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: Perry Farrell Target entity description: Perry Farrell is an American singer, songwriter, and frontman of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, best known as a pioneering figure in the 1990s alternative music scene.
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A.
Dave Krusen
Dave Krusen is an American rock drummer best known for playing on Pearl Jam’s debut album "Ten."
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B.
Sid Phillips
Sid Phillips is the sadistic, toy-destroying neighborhood bully who serves as the primary human antagonist in Pixar's original Toy Story film.
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C.
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale is a British musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Bush.
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D.
David Yow
David Yow is an American musician best known as the intense and charismatic lead vocalist of the noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
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E.
Joey Santiago
Joey Santiago is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Pixies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Jane's Addiction
NERFINISHED
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Porno for Pyros NERFINISHED ⓘ Psi Com NERFINISHED ⓘ Satellite Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | NME Godlike Genius Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Peretz Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-03-29 ⓘ |
| founded |
Jane's Addiction
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lollapalooza NERFINISHED ⓘ Porno for Pyros NERFINISHED ⓘ Satellite Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative metal
ⓘ
alternative rock ⓘ electronica ⓘ industrial rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Hezron Farrell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Izzadore Farrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | 1990s alternative rock movement ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a pioneering figure in the 1990s alternative music scene
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creating the Lollapalooza music festival ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Jane's Addiction
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Porno for Pyros NERFINISHED ⓘ Satellite Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jane's Addiction
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lollapalooza NERFINISHED ⓘ Porno for Pyros NERFINISHED ⓘ Satellite Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Queens, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | frontman of Jane's Addiction ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
ⓘ
Virgin Records ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Etty Lau Farrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Perry Farrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Perry Farrell Description of subject: Perry Farrell is an American singer, songwriter, and frontman of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, best known as a pioneering figure in the 1990s alternative music scene.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.