Tool
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Tool is an American progressive metal band known for its complex compositions, dark and philosophical lyrics, and visually striking live performances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tool canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1115199 — 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: Tool Context triple: [Best Metal Performance, notableRecipient, Tool]
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A.
Appar
Appar was a prominent 7th-century Tamil Shaivite saint and poet whose devotional hymns greatly shaped the Bhakti movement in South India.
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B.
Ware
Ware was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Ware v. Hylton, which addressed the supremacy of federal treaties over conflicting state laws.
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C.
The Gadget
"The Gadget" was the codename for the first nuclear explosive device ever detonated, tested by the United States at the Trinity site in New Mexico in 1945.
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D.
Star Maker
Star Maker is a 1937 science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon that explores cosmic evolution, advanced civilizations, and vast astroengineering projects on a universal scale.
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E.
Puter
Puter is one of the main regional dialects of the Romansh language, traditionally spoken in parts of the Engadine valley in Switzerland.
- 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: Tool Target entity description: Tool is an American progressive metal band known for its complex compositions, dark and philosophical lyrics, and visually striking live performances.
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A.
Appar
Appar was a prominent 7th-century Tamil Shaivite saint and poet whose devotional hymns greatly shaped the Bhakti movement in South India.
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B.
Ware
Ware was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Ware v. Hylton, which addressed the supremacy of federal treaties over conflicting state laws.
-
C.
The Gadget
"The Gadget" was the codename for the first nuclear explosive device ever detonated, tested by the United States at the Trinity site in New Mexico in 1945.
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D.
Star Maker
Star Maker is a 1937 science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon that explores cosmic evolution, advanced civilizations, and vast astroengineering projects on a universal scale.
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E.
Puter
Puter is one of the main regional dialects of the Romansh language, traditionally spoken in parts of the Engadine valley in Switzerland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Tool Description of subject: Tool is an American progressive metal band known for its complex compositions, dark and philosophical lyrics, and visually striking live performances.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.