My Bloody Valentine

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musical group rock band shoegaze band

My Bloody Valentine is an Irish-English alternative rock band renowned for pioneering the shoegaze genre with their dense, swirling guitar textures and ethereal vocals.

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Label	Occurrences
My Bloody Valentine canonical	9
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4273116 — 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: My Bloody Valentine
Context triple: [Sonic Youth, influenced, My Bloody Valentine]

A. My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film that became a cult classic for its holiday-themed horror and graphic mining-town murders.
B. Primal Scream
Primal Scream is a Scottish rock band known for blending indie rock, dance, and psychedelic influences, particularly on their acclaimed 1991 album "Screamadelica."
C. The Cure
The Cure is an English rock band formed in the late 1970s, renowned for their influential blend of post-punk, gothic rock, and pop sensibilities led by frontman Robert Smith.
D. 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.
E. The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses are an influential English rock band from Manchester, widely credited with pioneering the late-1980s Madchester scene by blending alternative rock, psychedelia, and dance music.
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: My Bloody Valentine
Target entity description: My Bloody Valentine is an Irish-English alternative rock band renowned for pioneering the shoegaze genre with their dense, swirling guitar textures and ethereal vocals.

A. My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film that became a cult classic for its holiday-themed horror and graphic mining-town murders.
B. Primal Scream
Primal Scream is a Scottish rock band known for blending indie rock, dance, and psychedelic influences, particularly on their acclaimed 1991 album "Screamadelica."
C. The Cure
The Cure is an English rock band formed in the late 1970s, renowned for their influential blend of post-punk, gothic rock, and pop sensibilities led by frontman Robert Smith.
D. 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.
E. The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses are an influential English rock band from Manchester, widely credited with pioneering the late-1980s Madchester scene by blending alternative rock, psychedelia, and dance music.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	musical group ⓘ rock band ⓘ shoegaze band ⓘ
activeYearsStartYear	1983 ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Ireland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
formedInYear	1983 ⓘ
founder	Colm Ó Cíosóig NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Shields NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	alternative rock ⓘ dream pop ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ noise pop ⓘ noise rock ⓘ shoegaze ⓘ
hasCompilationAlbum	EP's 1988–1991 and Rare Tracks NERFINISHED ⓘ Ecstasy and Wine NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasEP	Ecstasy NERFINISHED ⓘ Glider NERFINISHED ⓘ Strawberry Wine NERFINISHED ⓘ Tremolo NERFINISHED ⓘ You Made Me Realise NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasFormerMember	David Conway NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Ivers NERFINISHED ⓘ Tina Durkin NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasStudioAlbum	Isn't Anything NERFINISHED ⓘ Loveless NERFINISHED ⓘ m b v NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasWebsite	https://www.mybloodyvalentine.org ⓘ
influenced	Deerhunter NERFINISHED ⓘ Mogwai NERFINISHED ⓘ Ride NERFINISHED ⓘ Slowdive NERFINISHED ⓘ Smashing Pumpkins NERFINISHED ⓘ
influencedGenre	shoegaze ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
member	Bilinda Butcher NERFINISHED ⓘ Colm Ó Cíosóig NERFINISHED ⓘ Debbie Googe NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Shields NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	dense guitar textures ⓘ ethereal vocals ⓘ pioneering the shoegaze genre ⓘ
notableWork	Feed Me With Your Kiss NERFINISHED ⓘ Isn't Anything NERFINISHED ⓘ Loveless NERFINISHED ⓘ Only Shallow NERFINISHED ⓘ Soon NERFINISHED ⓘ To Here Knows When NERFINISHED ⓘ You Made Me Realise NERFINISHED ⓘ m b v NERFINISHED ⓘ
originatedIn	Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ
recordLabel	Creation Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Domino Recording Company NERFINISHED ⓘ Island Records ⓘ Lazy Records NERFINISHED ⓘ MBV Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Relativity Records NERFINISHED ⓘ
styleCharacteristic	glide guitar technique ⓘ heavy use of reverb ⓘ obscured vocals ⓘ pitch bending ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sonic Youth → influenced → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

Mogwai → influencedBy → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

Creation Records → signedArtist → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

Creation Records → notableRelease → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

this entity surface form: My Bloody Valentine – Loveless

James Edward Olliges Jr. → influencedBy → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

Primal Scream → associatedAct → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

The Dandy Warhols → influencedBy → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

Dinosaur Jr. → hasInfluenced → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

Kevin Shields → memberOf → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

Kevin Shields → associatedAct → My Bloody Valentine ⓘ

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