Robert Trujillo replaced Jason Newsted
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Robert Trujillo is an American bassist best known as the longtime bass player for the heavy metal band Metallica.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Trujillo replaced Jason Newsted canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5783997 — 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: Robert Trujillo replaced Jason Newsted Context triple: [Metallica, replacedMember, Robert Trujillo replaced Jason Newsted]
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A.
Billy Costigan
Billy Costigan is the undercover Massachusetts State Police officer infiltrating the Irish mob in Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller film "The Departed."
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B.
Kirk Hammett
Kirk Hammett is the lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Metallica, renowned for his influential solos and role in shaping the band's signature sound.
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C.
Frank Bello
Frank Bello is an American bassist best known for his long-standing role in the thrash metal band Anthrax.
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D.
Steven Adler
Steven Adler is an American drummer best known as the original drummer for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses during their classic late-1980s lineup.
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E.
Tom Morello
Tom Morello is an American guitarist, songwriter, and political activist best known as the innovative, effects-driven lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.
- 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: Robert Trujillo replaced Jason Newsted Target entity description: Robert Trujillo is an American bassist best known as the longtime bass player for the heavy metal band Metallica.
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A.
Billy Costigan
Billy Costigan is the undercover Massachusetts State Police officer infiltrating the Irish mob in Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller film "The Departed."
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B.
Kirk Hammett
Kirk Hammett is the lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Metallica, renowned for his influential solos and role in shaping the band's signature sound.
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C.
Frank Bello
Frank Bello is an American bassist best known for his long-standing role in the thrash metal band Anthrax.
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D.
Steven Adler
Steven Adler is an American drummer best known as the original drummer for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses during their classic late-1980s lineup.
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E.
Tom Morello
Tom Morello is an American guitarist, songwriter, and political activist best known as the innovative, effects-driven lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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heavy metal band ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Black Label Society
NERFINISHED
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Infectious Grooves NERFINISHED ⓘ Metallica NERFINISHED ⓘ Ozzy Osbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ Suicidal Tendencies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1964-10-23 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Santa Monica, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Metallica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mexican American ⓘ |
| familyName | Trujillo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative metal
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funk metal ⓘ heavy metal ⓘ thrash metal ⓘ |
| givenName | Roberto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Tye Trujillo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember | Robert Trujillo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | bass guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
energetic stage presence
ⓘ
longtime bass player for Metallica ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Black Label Society
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Infectious Grooves NERFINISHED ⓘ Metallica NERFINISHED ⓘ Metallica (former) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ozzy Osbourne’s band ⓘ Suicidal Tendencies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Robert Trujillo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
72 Seasons
ⓘ
Death Magnetic NERFINISHED ⓘ Hardwired... to Self-Destruct NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Anger (as Metallica bassist, touring and promotion era) ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| positionInBand | bass player ⓘ |
| replaced | Jason Newsted NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Chloé Trujillo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeInBand | 2003 ⓘ |
| wasReplacedBy | Robert Trujillo 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: Robert Trujillo replaced Jason Newsted Description of subject: Robert Trujillo is an American bassist best known as the longtime bass player for the heavy metal band Metallica.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.