Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
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Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! is the 1985 debut studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth, known for its aggressive sound and technical guitar work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6022755 — 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: Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! Context triple: [Megadeth, notableWork, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!]
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A.
This Business Is Killing Me
"This Business Is Killing Me" is a song by the Ramones from their 1981 album "Pleasant Dreams," reflecting the band's characteristic punk rock style and themes of frustration and disillusionment.
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B.
Killer B's
Killer B's was the nickname for the Houston Astros’ core group of star hitters in the 1990s and early 2000s whose surnames began with “B,” including players like Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio, and Lance Berkman.
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C.
Great Kills
Great Kills is a residential neighborhood on Staten Island’s South Shore known for its marina, waterfront parks, and suburban character.
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D.
The Big Fat Kill
The Big Fat Kill is a neo-noir crime comic story arc from Frank Miller's Sin City series, centered on a violent conflict between Old Town's prostitutes and corrupt men who threaten their fragile truce with the police.
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E.
Killer Women
Killer Women is an American crime drama television series that follows a tough female Texas Ranger as she investigates cases involving women accused of murder.
- 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: Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! Target entity description: Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! is the 1985 debut studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth, known for its aggressive sound and technical guitar work.
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A.
This Business Is Killing Me
"This Business Is Killing Me" is a song by the Ramones from their 1981 album "Pleasant Dreams," reflecting the band's characteristic punk rock style and themes of frustration and disillusionment.
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B.
Killer B's
Killer B's was the nickname for the Houston Astros’ core group of star hitters in the 1990s and early 2000s whose surnames began with “B,” including players like Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio, and Lance Berkman.
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C.
Great Kills
Great Kills is a residential neighborhood on Staten Island’s South Shore known for its marina, waterfront parks, and suburban character.
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D.
The Big Fat Kill
The Big Fat Kill is a neo-noir crime comic story arc from Frank Miller's Sin City series, centered on a violent conflict between Old Town's prostitutes and corrupt men who threaten their fragile truce with the police.
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E.
Killer Women
Killer Women is an American crime drama television series that follows a tough female Texas Ranger as she investigates cases involving women accused of murder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
debut album
ⓘ
remixed and remastered album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Megadeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | Combat MX 8015 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | generally positive in metal press ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
Chris Poland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Mustaine NERFINISHED ⓘ David Ellefson NERFINISHED ⓘ Gar Samuelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | thrash metal ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
CD
ⓘ
cassette ⓘ digital download ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| hasSongStyle |
aggressive vocals
ⓘ
complex guitar riffs ⓘ fast tempo ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Chosen Ones
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Rites / Loved to Deth NERFINISHED ⓘ Looking Down the Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Mechanix NERFINISHED ⓘ Rattlehead NERFINISHED ⓘ The Skull Beneath the Skin NERFINISHED ⓘ These Boots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later Megadeth sound ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | thrash metal ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 31:08 ⓘ |
| mainSongwriter | Dave Mustaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive sound
ⓘ
technical guitar work ⓘ |
| originalCoverArt | skull with metal helmet and chains ⓘ |
| performer | Megadeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousWork | None (debut studio album) ⓘ |
| producer |
Dave Mustaine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Karsten K. Krosch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recorded |
1984
ⓘ
1985 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Combat Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reissue | Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! – The Final Kill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1985-06-12 ⓘ |
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: Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! Description of subject: Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! is the 1985 debut studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth, known for its aggressive sound and technical guitar work.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.