Machine Head
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Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, known for its aggressive groove/thrash sound and influential albums like "Burn My Eyes."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Machine Head canonical | 9 |
| Lamb of God | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5758658 — 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: Machine Head Context triple: [Roadrunner Records, signedArtist, Machine Head]
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A.
Machinehead
"Machinehead" is a 1996 alternative rock song by Bush, known for its heavy guitar riffs and being one of the band's most recognizable hits.
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B.
Lambs of God
Lambs of God is an Australian television miniseries adapted from Marele Day’s gothic novel, blending mystery, religion, and dark drama around three reclusive nuns whose isolated life is disrupted by a visiting priest.
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C.
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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D.
Ironhead
"Ironhead" is a song best known for its association with the band Helmet, showcasing their heavy, riff-driven alternative metal style.
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E.
Ironhead
Ironhead is the nickname of William "Ironhead" Miller, best known as the central character in the 1975 American football comedy film "The Longest Yard."
- 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: Machine Head Target entity description: Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, known for its aggressive groove/thrash sound and influential albums like "Burn My Eyes."
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A.
Machinehead
"Machinehead" is a 1996 alternative rock song by Bush, known for its heavy guitar riffs and being one of the band's most recognizable hits.
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B.
Lambs of God
Lambs of God is an Australian television miniseries adapted from Marele Day’s gothic novel, blending mystery, religion, and dark drama around three reclusive nuns whose isolated life is disrupted by a visiting priest.
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C.
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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D.
Ironhead
"Ironhead" is a song best known for its association with the band Helmet, showcasing their heavy, riff-driven alternative metal style.
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E.
Ironhead
Ironhead is the nickname of William "Ironhead" Miller, best known as the central character in the 1975 American football comedy film "The Longest Yard."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heavy metal band
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musical group ⓘ |
| album |
Bloodstone & Diamonds
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burn My Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ Catharsis NERFINISHED ⓘ Of Kingdom and Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ Supercharger NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blackening NERFINISHED ⓘ The Burning Red NERFINISHED ⓘ The More Things Change... NERFINISHED ⓘ Through the Ashes of Empires NERFINISHED ⓘ Unto the Locust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cityOfOrigin | Oakland, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Burn My Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| formerMember |
Adam Duce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ahrue Luster NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Kontos NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave McClain NERFINISHED ⓘ Logan Mader NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Demmel NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Costanza NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder |
Adam Duce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robb Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative metal
ⓘ
groove metal ⓘ heavy metal ⓘ metalcore ⓘ nu metal ⓘ thrash metal ⓘ |
| hasSignatureSong |
Aesthetics of Hate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Davidian NERFINISHED ⓘ Halo NERFINISHED ⓘ Imperium NERFINISHED ⓘ Locust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
personal struggle
ⓘ
social issues ⓘ war ⓘ |
| member |
Jared MacEachern
NERFINISHED
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Matt Alston NERFINISHED ⓘ Robb Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bloodstone & Diamonds
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burn My Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ Catharsis NERFINISHED ⓘ Of Kingdom and Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ Supercharger ⓘ The Blackening NERFINISHED ⓘ The Burning Red NERFINISHED ⓘ The More Things Change... NERFINISHED ⓘ Through the Ashes of Empires NERFINISHED ⓘ Unto the Locust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originScene | Bay Area metal scene ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Imperium Recordings
NERFINISHED
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Nuclear Blast NERFINISHED ⓘ Roadrunner Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | California 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: Machine Head Description of subject: Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, known for its aggressive groove/thrash sound and influential albums like "Burn My Eyes."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lamb of God
subject surface form:
Kiss of a Black Widow
subject surface form:
Kiss of a Black Widow
subject surface form:
Kiss of a Black Widow
subject surface form:
Kiss of a Black Widow
subject surface form:
Kiss of a Black Widow