The Damned
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The Damned are a pioneering English punk rock band formed in the mid-1970s, known for releasing one of the first UK punk singles and albums and later incorporating gothic and psychedelic influences into their sound.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Damned canonical | 13 |
| Damned | 1 |
| Damned Damned Damned (album) | 1 |
| The Damned – Damned Damned Damned | 1 |
| The Damned – New Rose (single) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4124528 — 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 Damned Context triple: [The Stooges, hasInfluenced, The Damned]
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A.
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.
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B.
The Cult
The Cult is a British rock band formed in the early 1980s, known for its blend of post-punk, hard rock, and gothic influences and hits like "She Sells Sanctuary" and "Fire Woman."
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C.
Killing Joke
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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D.
Demon Deacons
Demon Deacons is the distinctive nickname and mascot identity for Wake Forest University's athletic teams.
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E.
Slade
Slade is the primary masked arch-villain and mastermind antagonist in the animated series Teen Titans, known for his strategic genius and psychological manipulation of the team, especially Robin.
- 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 Damned Target entity description: The Damned are a pioneering English punk rock band formed in the mid-1970s, known for releasing one of the first UK punk singles and albums and later incorporating gothic and psychedelic influences into their sound.
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A.
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.
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B.
The Cult
The Cult is a British rock band formed in the early 1980s, known for its blend of post-punk, hard rock, and gothic influences and hits like "She Sells Sanctuary" and "Fire Woman."
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C.
Killing Joke
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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D.
Demon Deacons
Demon Deacons is the distinctive nickname and mascot identity for Wake Forest University's athletic teams.
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E.
Slade
Slade is the primary masked arch-villain and mastermind antagonist in the animated series Teen Titans, known for his strategic genius and psychological manipulation of the team, especially Robin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English rock band
ⓘ
musical group ⓘ punk rock band ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
gothic rock
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hard rock ⓘ horror punk ⓘ new wave ⓘ post-punk ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| hasPart |
The Damned
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Damned Damned Damned (album)
New Rose ⓘ
surface form:
New Rose (single)
|
| inception | 1976 ⓘ |
| influenced | UK punk rock scene ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ramones
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surface form:
The Ramones
The Stooges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locationFormed |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| member |
Algy Ward
ⓘ
Brian James ⓘ Bryn Merrick ⓘ Captain Sensible ⓘ Dave Vanian ⓘ Monty Oxymoron ⓘ Paul Gray ⓘ Paul Ryan ⓘ Pinch ⓘ Rat Scabies ⓘ Roman Jugg ⓘ Stu West ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
released one of the first UK punk rock albums
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released one of the first UK punk rock singles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anything
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Damned Damned Damned ⓘ Darkadelic ⓘ Evil Spirits ⓘ Grave Disorder ⓘ Machine Gun Etiquette ⓘ New Rose ⓘ Phantasmagoria ⓘ Strawberry ⓘ
surface form:
Strawberries
The Black Album ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Bronze Records
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Chiswick Records ⓘ MCA Records ⓘ Nitro Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Stiff Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Music Group ⓘ |
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 Damned Description of subject: The Damned are a pioneering English punk rock band formed in the mid-1970s, known for releasing one of the first UK punk singles and albums and later incorporating gothic and psychedelic influences into their sound.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Damned
this entity surface form:
The Damned – New Rose (single)
this entity surface form:
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned
this entity surface form:
Damned Damned Damned (album)