Nirvana
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Nirvana was a highly influential American grunge band from the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for popularizing alternative rock worldwide with hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nirvana canonical | 151 |
| Nirvana discography | 8 |
| Nirvana (indirectly via grunge scene) | 1 |
| Nirvana in 1990 | 1 |
| Nirvana live setlists | 1 |
| Nirvana, 1988 | 1 |
| Nirvana, 1990 | 1 |
| Nirvana’s early Sub Pop-era material | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T767650 — 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: Nirvana Context triple: [Steve Albini, workedWith, Nirvana]
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A.
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1990, known as one of the leading acts of the grunge movement and for albums like "Ten" and "Vs."
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B.
Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains is an American rock band from Seattle known for its dark, heavy sound and vocal harmonies that helped define the grunge movement of the early 1990s.
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C.
Soundgarden
Soundgarden is an influential American rock band from Seattle, widely recognized as one of the pioneering groups of the grunge movement.
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D.
Green Day
Green Day is an American punk rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for popularizing pop-punk worldwide with albums like "Dookie" and "American Idiot."
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E.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band known for fusing rap, metal, and politically charged lyrics to become one of the most influential alternative acts of the 1990s.
- 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: Nirvana Target entity description: Nirvana was a highly influential American grunge band from the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for popularizing alternative rock worldwide with hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
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A.
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1990, known as one of the leading acts of the grunge movement and for albums like "Ten" and "Vs."
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B.
Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains is an American rock band from Seattle known for its dark, heavy sound and vocal harmonies that helped define the grunge movement of the early 1990s.
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C.
Soundgarden
Soundgarden is an influential American rock band from Seattle, widely recognized as one of the pioneering groups of the grunge movement.
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D.
Green Day
Green Day is an American punk rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for popularizing pop-punk worldwide with albums like "Dookie" and "American Idiot."
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E.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band known for fusing rap, metal, and politically charged lyrics to become one of the most influential alternative acts of the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
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: Nirvana Description of subject: Nirvana was a highly influential American grunge band from the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for popularizing alternative rock worldwide with hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Referenced by (165)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
MCA Records
this entity surface form:
Nirvana discography
this entity surface form:
Nirvana (indirectly via grunge scene)