Killing Joke
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Killing Joke is an influential English post-punk and industrial rock band known for their dark, aggressive sound and significant impact on alternative and heavy music.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Killing Joke canonical | 10 |
| Killing Joke (1980 album) | 1 |
| Killing Joke (2003 album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2117265 — 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: Killing Joke Context triple: [The Fireman, associatedAct, Killing Joke]
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A.
Bauhaus
Bauhaus was a pioneering German art and design school and movement that fused fine arts with crafts and modern technology, profoundly shaping modernist architecture, graphic design, and industrial design worldwide.
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B.
Public Enemy
Public Enemy is an influential American hip hop group known for its politically charged lyrics, militant image, and pioneering role in the development of conscious rap.
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C.
Joy Division
Joy Division was an influential English post-punk band from the late 1970s, renowned for their dark, atmospheric sound and the haunting vocals of frontman Ian Curtis.
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D.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were an influential English post-punk and gothic rock band, led by singer Siouxsie Sioux, known for their dark, innovative sound and lasting impact on alternative music.
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E.
Holy Terror
Holy Terror is a controversial graphic novel by Frank Miller, published by Legendary Comics, that follows a superhero-style vigilante battling Islamic terrorists.
- 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: Killing Joke Target entity description: Killing Joke is an influential English post-punk and industrial rock band known for their dark, aggressive sound and significant impact on alternative and heavy music.
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A.
Bauhaus
Bauhaus was a pioneering German art and design school and movement that fused fine arts with crafts and modern technology, profoundly shaping modernist architecture, graphic design, and industrial design worldwide.
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B.
Public Enemy
Public Enemy is an influential American hip hop group known for its politically charged lyrics, militant image, and pioneering role in the development of conscious rap.
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C.
Joy Division
Joy Division was an influential English post-punk band from the late 1970s, renowned for their dark, atmospheric sound and the haunting vocals of frontman Ian Curtis.
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D.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were an influential English post-punk and gothic rock band, led by singer Siouxsie Sioux, known for their dark, innovative sound and lasting impact on alternative music.
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E.
Holy Terror
Holy Terror is a controversial graphic novel by Frank Miller, published by Legendary Comics, that follows a superhero-style vigilante battling Islamic terrorists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
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: Killing Joke Description of subject: Killing Joke is an influential English post-punk and industrial rock band known for their dark, aggressive sound and significant impact on alternative and heavy music.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Fireman
this entity surface form:
Killing Joke (1980 album)
this entity surface form:
Killing Joke (2003 album)