Headless Cross
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Headless Cross is a 1989 heavy metal album by Black Sabbath, noted for its darker themes and featuring vocalist Tony Martin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Headless Cross canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5784147 — 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: Headless Cross Context triple: [Black Sabbath, notableWork, Headless Cross]
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A.
Cross of Nails
The Cross of Nails is a Christian symbol of reconciliation and peace, originating from medieval nails recovered from the bombed Coventry Cathedral during World War II.
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B.
Whitecross
Whitecross is a small locality in Northern Ireland known for its proximity to the site of the Kingsmill massacre during the Troubles.
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C.
Cross Hands
Cross Hands is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, known historically as a mining community and now as a growing residential and commercial area near the A48.
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D.
Black Cross
Black Cross is a seminal abstract painting by Kazimir Malevich that exemplifies his Suprematist style through a stark geometric composition focused on pure form and color.
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E.
Platform of the Skulls
Platform of the Skulls is a carved stone platform at the Maya archaeological site of Chichén Itzá, notable for its reliefs depicting rows of skulls associated with ritual sacrifice and warfare.
- 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: Headless Cross Target entity description: Headless Cross is a 1989 heavy metal album by Black Sabbath, noted for its darker themes and featuring vocalist Tony Martin.
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A.
Cross of Nails
The Cross of Nails is a Christian symbol of reconciliation and peace, originating from medieval nails recovered from the bombed Coventry Cathedral during World War II.
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B.
Whitecross
Whitecross is a small locality in Northern Ireland known for its proximity to the site of the Kingsmill massacre during the Troubles.
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C.
Cross Hands
Cross Hands is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, known historically as a mining community and now as a growing residential and commercial area near the A48.
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D.
Black Cross
Black Cross is a seminal abstract painting by Kazimir Malevich that exemplifies his Suprematist style through a stark geometric composition focused on pure form and color.
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E.
Platform of the Skulls
Platform of the Skulls is a carved stone platform at the Maya archaeological site of Chichén Itzá, notable for its reliefs depicting rows of skulls associated with ritual sacrifice and warfare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heavy metal album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Black Sabbath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassist | Laurence Cottle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtDesigner | Sleeve art by Bill Smith Studio ⓘ |
| drummer | Cozy Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
cassette tape
ⓘ
compact disc ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| genre |
doom metal
ⓘ
heavy metal ⓘ |
| guitarist | Tony Iommi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Black Moon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Call of the Wild NERFINISHED ⓘ Devil and Daughter NERFINISHED ⓘ Headless Cross (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kill in the Spirit World NERFINISHED ⓘ Nightwing NERFINISHED ⓘ When Death Calls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyboardist | Geoff Nicholls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label | IRS Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lead vocals by | Tony Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | approximately 41 minutes ⓘ |
| nextAlbum | Tyr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Tony Martin era of Black Sabbath
ⓘ
darker lyrical themes ⓘ |
| partOf | Black Sabbath discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Black Sabbath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousAlbum | The Eternal Idol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySongwriter |
Cozy Powell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Iommi NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Cozy Powell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Geoff Nicholls NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Meehan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Iommi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1988 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1989-04-24 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| theme |
Satanism
ⓘ
apocalypse ⓘ dark themes ⓘ death ⓘ occult ⓘ |
| vocalist | Tony Martin 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: Headless Cross Description of subject: Headless Cross is a 1989 heavy metal album by Black Sabbath, noted for its darker themes and featuring vocalist Tony Martin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.