Billy Idol
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Billy Idol is an English rock musician and singer-songwriter known for his punk-influenced style and 1980s hits like "White Wedding" and "Rebel Yell."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Idol canonical | 27 |
| Billy Idol (solo artist) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5616878 — 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: Billy Idol Context triple: [Steve Stevens, collaboratedWith, Billy Idol]
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A.
John Sykes
John Sykes is an English rock guitarist and songwriter best known for his work with bands like Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, and Blue Murder.
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B.
Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien is a British-New Zealand actor, writer, and musician best known as the creator of "The Rocky Horror Show" and for his role as Riff Raff in its film adaptation, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
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C.
Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter is an English former glam rock singer and songwriter best known for his 1970s hit "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" and later criminal convictions for child sexual abuse.
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D.
Angus Young
Angus Young is the lead guitarist, co-founder, and schoolboy-uniform-clad stage icon of the Australian rock band AC/DC.
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E.
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock is an English bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
- 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: Billy Idol Target entity description: Billy Idol is an English rock musician and singer-songwriter known for his punk-influenced style and 1980s hits like "White Wedding" and "Rebel Yell."
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A.
John Sykes
John Sykes is an English rock guitarist and songwriter best known for his work with bands like Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, and Blue Murder.
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B.
Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien is a British-New Zealand actor, writer, and musician best known as the creator of "The Rocky Horror Show" and for his role as Riff Raff in its film adaptation, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
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C.
Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter is an English former glam rock singer and songwriter best known for his 1970s hit "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" and later criminal convictions for child sexual abuse.
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D.
Angus Young
Angus Young is the lead guitarist, co-founder, and schoolboy-uniform-clad stage icon of the Australian rock band AC/DC.
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E.
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock is an English bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Billy Idol Description of subject: Billy Idol is an English rock musician and singer-songwriter known for his punk-influenced style and 1980s hits like "White Wedding" and "Rebel Yell."
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Booker (TV series)
subject linked to:
Whiplash Smile (album) – guitar
subject linked to:
Kenny Aaronson – bass
linked to: Billy Idol