Alcest
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Alcest is a French band known for pioneering a blend of black metal and shoegaze often referred to as "blackgaze."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alcest canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10918624 — 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: Alcest Context triple: [The Haxan Cloak, hasCollaboration, Alcest]
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A.
Deafheaven
Deafheaven is an American band known for blending black metal with shoegaze and post-rock to create expansive, emotionally charged soundscapes.
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B.
Cult of Luna
Cult of Luna is a Swedish post-metal band known for its atmospheric, heavy soundscapes and concept-driven albums.
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C.
Shellcreeper
Shellcreeper is a turtle-like enemy from the Mario Bros. arcade game, known for walking along platforms and flipping over when hit from below.
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D.
Protomartyr
Protomartyr is the title traditionally given to Saint Stephen as the first Christian martyr.
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E.
Krallice
Krallice is an American experimental black metal band known for its complex, highly technical compositions and involvement in the New York avant‑metal scene.
- 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: Alcest Target entity description: Alcest is a French band known for pioneering a blend of black metal and shoegaze often referred to as "blackgaze."
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A.
Deafheaven
Deafheaven is an American band known for blending black metal with shoegaze and post-rock to create expansive, emotionally charged soundscapes.
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B.
Cult of Luna
Cult of Luna is a Swedish post-metal band known for its atmospheric, heavy soundscapes and concept-driven albums.
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C.
Shellcreeper
Shellcreeper is a turtle-like enemy from the Mario Bros. arcade game, known for walking along platforms and flipping over when hit from below.
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D.
Protomartyr
Protomartyr is the title traditionally given to Saint Stephen as the first Christian martyr.
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E.
Krallice
Krallice is an American experimental black metal band known for its complex, highly technical compositions and involvement in the New York avant‑metal scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French metal band
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band ⓘ musical group ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2000 ⓘ |
| album |
Kodama
ⓘ
Les voyages de l’âme ⓘ Shelter ⓘ Souvenirs d’un autre monde ⓘ Spiritual Instinct ⓘ Écailles de lune ⓘ
linked to:
Cendres de lune
|
| country | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Souvenirs d’un autre monde ⓘ |
| formedIn | 2000s ⓘ |
| genre |
atmospheric black metal
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black metal ⓘ blackgaze ⓘ blackgaze ⓘ post‑metal ⓘ post‑rock ⓘ shoegaze ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | blackgaze bands ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Neige
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Winterhalter ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics |
English
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French ⓘ |
| lyricalThemes |
dreams
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otherworldly experiences ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending black metal and shoegaze
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pioneering the blackgaze genre ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
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guitarist ⓘ multi‑instrumentalist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| origin |
Bagnols‑sur‑Cèze
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linked to:
Bagnols-sur-Cèze
|
| performer |
Alcest
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Alcest ⓘ Alcest ⓘ Alcest ⓘ Alcest ⓘ Alcest ⓘ |
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: Alcest Description of subject: Alcest is a French band known for pioneering a blend of black metal and shoegaze often referred to as "blackgaze."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.