Bad Religion
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Bad Religion is an American punk rock band known for its fast-paced melodic sound, politically charged lyrics, and significant influence on the 1980s and 1990s punk revival.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bad Religion canonical | 10 |
| "Bad Religion" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T985299 — 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: Bad Religion Context triple: [Ramones, influenced, Bad Religion]
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A.
The Offspring
The Offspring is an American punk rock band known for helping popularize punk in the 1990s with hit albums like "Smash" and singles such as "Come Out and Play" and "Self Esteem."
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B.
Godsmack
Godsmack is an American hard rock and alternative metal band known for hits like "I Stand Alone" and "Voodoo" and for their aggressive, riff-driven sound.
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C.
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.
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D.
The Jesus Lizard
The Jesus Lizard is an influential American noise rock band known for its abrasive sound, intense live performances, and prominent role in the 1990s underground rock scene.
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E.
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band best known for their early 2000s nu metal and alternative rock hits like "Last Resort."
- 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: Bad Religion Target entity description: Bad Religion is an American punk rock band known for its fast-paced melodic sound, politically charged lyrics, and significant influence on the 1980s and 1990s punk revival.
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A.
The Offspring
The Offspring is an American punk rock band known for helping popularize punk in the 1990s with hit albums like "Smash" and singles such as "Come Out and Play" and "Self Esteem."
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B.
Godsmack
Godsmack is an American hard rock and alternative metal band known for hits like "I Stand Alone" and "Voodoo" and for their aggressive, riff-driven sound.
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C.
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.
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D.
The Jesus Lizard
The Jesus Lizard is an influential American noise rock band known for its abrasive sound, intense live performances, and prominent role in the 1990s underground rock scene.
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E.
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band best known for their early 2000s nu metal and alternative rock hits like "Last Resort."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
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musician ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ punk rock band ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| founded | Epitaph Records ⓘ |
| genre |
hardcore punk
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melodic hardcore ⓘ melodic punk ⓘ punk rock ⓘ skate punk ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
politically charged lyrics
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socially conscious lyrics ⓘ |
| hasGenreCharacteristic | fast-paced melodic sound ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
American punk scene
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melodic hardcore genre ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
politics
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religion ⓘ social issues ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Brett Gurewitz
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Brian Baker ⓘ Greg Graffin ⓘ Jamie Miller ⓘ Jay Bentley ⓘ Mike Dimkich ⓘ |
| influenced |
1980s punk revival
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1990s punk revival ⓘ skate punk bands ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Against the Grain
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Age of Unreason ⓘ Generator ⓘ No Control ⓘ Recipe for Hate ⓘ Stranger Than Fiction ⓘ Suffer ⓘ The Gray Race ⓘ The Process of Belief ⓘ True North ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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bassist ⓘ drummer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ guitarist ⓘ guitarist ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Epitaph Records ⓘ |
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: Bad Religion Description of subject: Bad Religion is an American punk rock band known for its fast-paced melodic sound, politically charged lyrics, and significant influence on the 1980s and 1990s punk revival.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
"Bad Religion"