Scott Weiland
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Scott Weiland was an American rock singer and frontman best known for leading Stone Temple Pilots and later the supergroup Velvet Revolver, noted for his distinctive voice and dynamic stage presence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott Weiland canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8484234 — 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: Scott Weiland Context triple: [Stone Temple Pilots, member, Scott Weiland]
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A.
Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington was an American rock singer best known as the powerful and emotive lead vocalist of the band Linkin Park.
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B.
Layne Staley
Layne Staley was an American singer and songwriter best known as the powerful, haunting lead vocalist and co-lyricist of the grunge band Alice in Chains.
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C.
Shannon Hoon
Shannon Hoon was the American lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, best known for his distinctive voice and the hit song "No Rain" before his death in 1995.
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D.
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale is a British musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Bush.
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E.
Joe Darlington
Joe Darlington is a notable individual who shares the Darlington surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- 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: Scott Weiland Target entity description: Scott Weiland was an American rock singer and frontman best known for leading Stone Temple Pilots and later the supergroup Velvet Revolver, noted for his distinctive voice and dynamic stage presence.
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A.
Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington was an American rock singer best known as the powerful and emotive lead vocalist of the band Linkin Park.
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B.
Layne Staley
Layne Staley was an American singer and songwriter best known as the powerful, haunting lead vocalist and co-lyricist of the grunge band Alice in Chains.
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C.
Shannon Hoon
Shannon Hoon was the American lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, best known for his distinctive voice and the hit song "No Rain" before his death in 1995.
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D.
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale is a British musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Bush.
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E.
Joe Darlington
Joe Darlington is a notable individual who shares the Darlington surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
frontman
ⓘ
human ⓘ rock singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Art of Anarchy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts NERFINISHED ⓘ Stone Temple Pilots NERFINISHED ⓘ Velvet Revolver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Hollywood Forever Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | accidental drug overdose ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-10-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-12-03 ⓘ |
| familyName | Weiland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Scott Richard Weiland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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grunge ⓘ hard rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive vocal style
ⓘ
dynamic stage presence ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Art of Anarchy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts NERFINISHED ⓘ Stone Temple Pilots NERFINISHED ⓘ Velvet Revolver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
12 Bar Blues
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blaster NERFINISHED ⓘ Contraband NERFINISHED ⓘ Core NERFINISHED ⓘ Happy in Galoshes NERFINISHED ⓘ Libertad NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Purple NERFINISHED ⓘ Shangri-La Dee Da NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Stone Temple Pilots
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Velvet Revolver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Jose, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bloomington, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
lead vocalist of Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts
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lead vocalist of Stone Temple Pilots ⓘ lead vocalist of Velvet Revolver ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jamie Wachtel
NERFINISHED
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Janina Castaneda NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Forsberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceType | baritone ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1986–2015 ⓘ |
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: Scott Weiland Description of subject: Scott Weiland was an American rock singer and frontman best known for leading Stone Temple Pilots and later the supergroup Velvet Revolver, noted for his distinctive voice and dynamic stage presence.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.