Metal Guru
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"Metal Guru" is a glam rock song by the British band T. Rex, known for its catchy hooks and Marc Bolan's distinctive vocal style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metal Guru canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13027862 — 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: Metal Guru Context triple: [T. Rex, notableWork, Metal Guru]
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A.
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine known for its adult-oriented, visually striking, and often surreal stories by international artists and writers.
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B.
Louder
Louder is Lea Michele’s debut studio album, showcasing her transition from television and Broadway star to pop recording artist.
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C.
Rock Sound
Rock Sound is a small coastal settlement on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, known for its protected harbor and laid-back island atmosphere.
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D.
The Metal Opera
The Metal Opera is a symphonic power metal concept album by Tobias Sammet’s project Avantasia that helped define the metal “rock opera” format.
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E.
Headbangers Ball
Headbangers Ball was MTV’s flagship heavy metal and hard rock music video show, known for spotlighting metal bands and subcultures from the mid-1980s through 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: Metal Guru Target entity description: "Metal Guru" is a glam rock song by the British band T. Rex, known for its catchy hooks and Marc Bolan's distinctive vocal style.
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A.
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine known for its adult-oriented, visually striking, and often surreal stories by international artists and writers.
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B.
Louder
Louder is Lea Michele’s debut studio album, showcasing her transition from television and Broadway star to pop recording artist.
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C.
Rock Sound
Rock Sound is a small coastal settlement on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, known for its protected harbor and laid-back island atmosphere.
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D.
The Metal Opera
The Metal Opera is a symphonic power metal concept album by Tobias Sammet’s project Avantasia that helped define the metal “rock opera” format.
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E.
Headbangers Ball
Headbangers Ball was MTV’s flagship heavy metal and hard rock music video show, known for spotlighting metal bands and subcultures from the mid-1980s through the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | The Slider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | T. Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Thunderwing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionGermanSinglesChart | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionIrishSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| composer | Marc Bolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresDistinctiveVocalStyle | Marc Bolan GENERATED ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre | glam rock ⓘ |
| hasCatchyHooks | true ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later glam rock artists ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ saxophone ⓘ strings ⓘ |
| hasMusicalEra | early 1970s ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
dense Phil Spector–style production
ⓘ
no traditional guitar solo ⓘ |
| hasSongStructure | verse-chorus ⓘ |
| hasTempo | upbeat ⓘ |
| hasTheme | mystical figure ⓘ |
| includedInCompilation |
20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Great Hits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf |
Marc Bolan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
T. Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label |
EMI
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
T. Rex Wax Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 2:29 ⓘ |
| openingTrackOf | The Slider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfArtistDiscography | T. Rex discography ⓘ |
| performer | T. Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Tony Visconti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recorded | 1972 ⓘ |
| releasedAfter | Jeepster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1972-05-05 ⓘ |
| releasedBefore | Children of the Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| toppedChart |
Irish Singles Chart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UK Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trackOnAlbum | The Slider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Marc Bolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weeksAtNumberOneUK | 4 ⓘ |
| writer | Marc Bolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Metal Guru Description of subject: "Metal Guru" is a glam rock song by the British band T. Rex, known for its catchy hooks and Marc Bolan's distinctive vocal style.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.