The Mars Volta
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The Mars Volta is an American progressive rock band known for its complex song structures, experimental sound, and energetic live performances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Mars Volta canonical | 13 |
| The Mars Volta (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5199717 — 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 Mars Volta Context triple: [Storm Thorgerson, workedWith, The Mars Volta]
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A.
Guayna Capac
Guayna Capac is an alternative name for Huayna Capac, the Inca emperor who greatly expanded the Inca Empire in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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B.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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C.
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are an American experimental rock band known for their psychedelic sound, elaborate live shows, and critically acclaimed albums like "The Soft Bulletin" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."
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D.
Protomartyr
Protomartyr is the title traditionally given to Saint Stephen as the first Christian martyr.
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E.
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American experimental rock band known for its lush, psychedelic soundscapes and critically acclaimed albums such as "Deserter's Songs."
- 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 Mars Volta Target entity description: The Mars Volta is an American progressive rock band known for its complex song structures, experimental sound, and energetic live performances.
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A.
Guayna Capac
Guayna Capac is an alternative name for Huayna Capac, the Inca emperor who greatly expanded the Inca Empire in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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B.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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C.
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are an American experimental rock band known for their psychedelic sound, elaborate live shows, and critically acclaimed albums like "The Soft Bulletin" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."
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D.
Protomartyr
Protomartyr is the title traditionally given to Saint Stephen as the first Christian martyr.
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E.
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American experimental rock band known for its lush, psychedelic soundscapes and critically acclaimed albums such as "Deserter's Songs."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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 Mars Volta Description of subject: The Mars Volta is an American progressive rock band known for its complex song structures, experimental sound, and energetic live performances.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
subject linked to:
The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
linked to: The Mars Volta
subject linked to:
American Recordings label