The Killers
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The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas known for their anthemic, Springsteen-tinged indie rock hits like "Mr. Brightside" and "When You Were Young."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Killers canonical | 81 |
| The Killers discography | 3 |
| The Killers singles chronology | 1 |
| The Killers – Sam’s Town (production) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T312977 — 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: The Killers Context triple: [Bruce Springsteen, influenced, The Killers]
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A.
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, known for hits like "Use Somebody" and "Sex on Fire" and for blending Southern rock, alternative, and arena rock styles.
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B.
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band known for its grand, orchestral sound, emotionally charged lyrics, and critically acclaimed albums like "Funeral" and "The Suburbs."
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C.
Bastille
The Bastille was a medieval fortress in Paris that became a notorious state prison and a powerful symbol of royal tyranny, whose storming in 1789 marked a key turning point in the French Revolution.
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D.
Audioslave
Audioslave was an American rock supergroup formed by Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell and the instrumental members of Rage Against the Machine, known for its powerful fusion of hard rock, alternative metal, and politically tinged lyrics.
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E.
Blind Melon
Blind Melon is an American alternative rock band best known for their early 1990s hit "No Rain" and their distinctive blend of psychedelic and folk-influenced rock.
- 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: The Killers Target entity description: The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas known for their anthemic, Springsteen-tinged indie rock hits like "Mr. Brightside" and "When You Were Young."
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A.
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, known for hits like "Use Somebody" and "Sex on Fire" and for blending Southern rock, alternative, and arena rock styles.
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B.
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band known for its grand, orchestral sound, emotionally charged lyrics, and critically acclaimed albums like "Funeral" and "The Suburbs."
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C.
Bastille
The Bastille was a medieval fortress in Paris that became a notorious state prison and a powerful symbol of royal tyranny, whose storming in 1789 marked a key turning point in the French Revolution.
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D.
Audioslave
Audioslave was an American rock supergroup formed by Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell and the instrumental members of Rage Against the Machine, known for its powerful fusion of hard rock, alternative metal, and politically tinged lyrics.
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E.
Blind Melon
Blind Melon is an American alternative rock band best known for their early 1990s hit "No Rain" and their distinctive blend of psychedelic and folk-influenced rock.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: The Killers Description of subject: The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas known for their anthemic, Springsteen-tinged indie rock hits like "Mr. Brightside" and "When You Were Young."
Referenced by (86)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Killers discography
subject surface form:
The Anthem