The Eternal Idol
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The Eternal Idol is a 1987 heavy metal album by Black Sabbath that marked their first studio release with vocalist Tony Martin and a shift toward a more melodic yet still dark sound.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Eternal Idol canonical | 4 |
| Eternal Idol | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5784146 — 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 Eternal Idol Context triple: [Black Sabbath, notableWork, The Eternal Idol]
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The Eternal
The Eternal is the 2009 studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, known for its dense guitar textures and marking their final release on an independent label after a long major-label run.
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B.
The Idol
The Idol is a controversial HBO drama series co-created by Sam Levinson that follows a troubled pop star, played by Lily-Rose Depp, as she becomes entangled with a self-help cult leader in the Los Angeles music industry.
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C.
Idols of the Cave
Idols of the Cave are Francis Bacon’s category of cognitive biases arising from an individual’s personal experiences, education, and temperament that distort their understanding of reality.
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D.
De Idololatria
De Idololatria is an early Christian treatise by Tertullian that rigorously examines and condemns various forms of idolatry in the life of believers.
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E.
The Everlasting
"The Everlasting" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Welsh band Manic Street Preachers, known for its reflective lyrics and sweeping, anthemic sound.
- 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 Eternal Idol Target entity description: The Eternal Idol is a 1987 heavy metal album by Black Sabbath that marked their first studio release with vocalist Tony Martin and a shift toward a more melodic yet still dark sound.
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A.
The Eternal
The Eternal is the 2009 studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, known for its dense guitar textures and marking their final release on an independent label after a long major-label run.
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B.
The Idol
The Idol is a controversial HBO drama series co-created by Sam Levinson that follows a troubled pop star, played by Lily-Rose Depp, as she becomes entangled with a self-help cult leader in the Los Angeles music industry.
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C.
Idols of the Cave
Idols of the Cave are Francis Bacon’s category of cognitive biases arising from an individual’s personal experiences, education, and temperament that distort their understanding of reality.
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D.
De Idololatria
De Idololatria is an early Christian treatise by Tertullian that rigorously examines and condemns various forms of idolatry in the life of believers.
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E.
The Everlasting
"The Everlasting" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Welsh band Manic Street Preachers, known for its reflective lyrics and sweeping, anthemic sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Eternal Idol Description of subject: The Eternal Idol is a 1987 heavy metal album by Black Sabbath that marked their first studio release with vocalist Tony Martin and a shift toward a more melodic yet still dark sound.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Eternal Idol
linked to: The Eternal Idol