Wacken Open Air
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Wacken Open Air is one of the world’s largest and most renowned heavy metal music festivals, held annually in the village of Wacken in northern Germany.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wacken Open Air canonical | 2 |
| https://www.wacken.com | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10469088 — 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: Wacken Open Air Context triple: [Avantasia, notablePerformance, Wacken Open Air]
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A.
Roadburn Festival
Roadburn Festival is an annual avant-garde heavy music festival in the Netherlands renowned for its focus on experimental, doom, stoner, and psychedelic genres.
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B.
Mayhem Festival
Mayhem Festival was a touring heavy metal and hard rock music festival in North America known for featuring prominent metal bands and multiple stages.
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C.
Azkena Rock Festival
Azkena Rock Festival is an annual rock and roll music festival held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, known for its classic rock, punk, and alternative lineups and intimate, fan-focused atmosphere.
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D.
Open'er Festival
Open'er Festival is one of Poland's largest annual music and arts festivals, held on the Baltic coast and known for its diverse international lineup and large-scale open-air performances.
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E.
Helikon Festival
Helikon Festival is a long-standing Hungarian student arts and cultural festival held in Keszthely, showcasing youth talent in music, literature, theater, and other performing arts.
- 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: Wacken Open Air Target entity description: Wacken Open Air is one of the world’s largest and most renowned heavy metal music festivals, held annually in the village of Wacken in northern Germany.
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A.
Roadburn Festival
Roadburn Festival is an annual avant-garde heavy music festival in the Netherlands renowned for its focus on experimental, doom, stoner, and psychedelic genres.
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B.
Mayhem Festival
Mayhem Festival was a touring heavy metal and hard rock music festival in North America known for featuring prominent metal bands and multiple stages.
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C.
Azkena Rock Festival
Azkena Rock Festival is an annual rock and roll music festival held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, known for its classic rock, punk, and alternative lineups and intimate, fan-focused atmosphere.
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D.
Open'er Festival
Open'er Festival is one of Poland's largest annual music and arts festivals, held on the Baltic coast and known for its diverse international lineup and large-scale open-air performances.
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E.
Helikon Festival
Helikon Festival is a long-standing Hungarian student arts and cultural festival held in Keszthely, showcasing youth talent in music, literature, theater, and other performing arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | music festival ⓘ |
| abbreviation | W:O:A ⓘ |
| audienceType | international audience ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| duration | 3 days ⓘ |
| firstEditionLocation |
Wacken, Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
|
| founder |
Holger Hübner
ⓘ
Thomas Jensen ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
heavy metal ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasGenreSubfocus |
black metal
ⓘ
death metal ⓘ doom metal ⓘ folk metal ⓘ power metal ⓘ progressive metal ⓘ thrash metal ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| hasLogoElement | bull skull ⓘ |
| hasSlogan | Louder than Hell ⓘ |
| inception | 1990 ⓘ |
| includesActivity |
camping
ⓘ
meet and greet sessions ⓘ merchandise market ⓘ metal market ⓘ |
| location | Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany ⓘ |
| musicFocus | live performances ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity | Hamburg ⓘ |
| notableStage |
Black Stage
ⓘ
Party Stage ⓘ True Metal Stage ⓘ W.E.T. Stage ⓘ
linked to:
W.E.T.
|
| numberOfStages | multiple stages ⓘ |
| organizer | ICS Festival Service GmbH ⓘ |
| region |
northern Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Germany
|
| reputation |
one of the most renowned heavy metal festivals
ⓘ
one of the world’s largest heavy metal festivals ⓘ |
| state | Schleswig-Holstein ⓘ |
| ticketType | multi-day pass ⓘ |
| transportAccess |
Itzehoe railway station
ⓘ
linked to:
Itzehoe station
|
| typicalAttendance | tens of thousands of visitors ⓘ |
| typicalStartTime |
early August
ⓘ
late July ⓘ |
| village | Wacken ⓘ |
| website |
https://www.wacken.com
ⓘ
linked to:
Wacken Open Air
|
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: Wacken Open Air Description of subject: Wacken Open Air is one of the world’s largest and most renowned heavy metal music festivals, held annually in the village of Wacken in northern Germany.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wacken Open Air