Madball
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Madball is a New York City hardcore punk band known for its aggressive sound and influential role in the NYHC scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madball canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9570839 — 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: Madball Context triple: [Jay Weinberg, associatedAct, Madball]
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A.
Lagwagon
Lagwagon is an American punk rock band from California known for its fast melodic style and influential role in the 1990s skate punk scene.
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B.
The Frustrators
The Frustrators are an American punk rock side project featuring Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt, known for their irreverent, humorous style and releases on Lookout! Records.
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C.
Smack the Pony
Smack the Pony is a British all-female sketch comedy television series known for its surreal, character-driven humor and sharp take on everyday situations.
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D.
The Brand New Heavies
The Brand New Heavies are a British acid jazz and funk band known for their soulful grooves and influential role in the 1990s acid jazz movement.
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E.
Chickenfoot
Chickenfoot is a hard rock supergroup featuring virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani alongside former members of Van Halen and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- 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: Madball Target entity description: Madball is a New York City hardcore punk band known for its aggressive sound and influential role in the NYHC scene.
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A.
Lagwagon
Lagwagon is an American punk rock band from California known for its fast melodic style and influential role in the 1990s skate punk scene.
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B.
The Frustrators
The Frustrators are an American punk rock side project featuring Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt, known for their irreverent, humorous style and releases on Lookout! Records.
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C.
Smack the Pony
Smack the Pony is a British all-female sketch comedy television series known for its surreal, character-driven humor and sharp take on everyday situations.
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D.
The Brand New Heavies
The Brand New Heavies are a British acid jazz and funk band known for their soulful grooves and influential role in the 1990s acid jazz movement.
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E.
Chickenfoot
Chickenfoot is a hard rock supergroup featuring virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani alongside former members of Van Halen and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Madball Description of subject: Madball is a New York City hardcore punk band known for its aggressive sound and influential role in the NYHC scene.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.