Mark Kostabi
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Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer known for his stylized, faceless figures and for designing notable album covers for major rock bands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mark Kostabi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3926708 — 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: Mark Kostabi Context triple: [Use Your Illusion II, hasCoverArtBy, Mark Kostabi]
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A.
Mark Dacascos
Mark Dacascos is an American actor and martial artist known for his roles in action films and television, as well as for serving as the Chairman on the TV show "Iron Chef America."
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B.
David Kajganich
David Kajganich is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on atmospheric horror and thriller projects such as the TV series "The Terror" and the film "Suspiria."
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C.
Mark DeBarge
Mark DeBarge is an American R&B singer and musician best known as a member of the family group DeBarge, popular in the 1980s.
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D.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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E.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
- 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: Mark Kostabi Target entity description: Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer known for his stylized, faceless figures and for designing notable album covers for major rock bands.
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A.
Mark Dacascos
Mark Dacascos is an American actor and martial artist known for his roles in action films and television, as well as for serving as the Chairman on the TV show "Iron Chef America."
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B.
David Kajganich
David Kajganich is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on atmospheric horror and thriller projects such as the TV series "The Terror" and the film "Suspiria."
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C.
Mark DeBarge
Mark DeBarge is an American R&B singer and musician best known as a member of the family group DeBarge, popular in the 1980s.
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D.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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E.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ record cover artist ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfBirth | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorOf | Kostabi World studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-11-27 ⓘ |
| designedAlbumCoverFor |
Guns N' Roses – Use Your Illusion I
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guns N' Roses – Use Your Illusion II NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Scott – All The Way NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ramones – Brain Drain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | California State University, Fullerton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Estonian-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Kostabi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
album cover design
ⓘ
music composition ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary classical music
ⓘ
instrumental music ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArtisticTheme |
alienation
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consumerism ⓘ depersonalization ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.kostabi.com ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
neo-pop art
ⓘ
postmodern art ⓘ |
| name | Mark Kostabi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
album cover art for rock bands
ⓘ
stylized faceless figures ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brain Drain cover art
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Use Your Illusion cover art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
composer ⓘ painter ⓘ record cover designer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Rome, Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Paul Kostabi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
anonymous faceless figures
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figurative art ⓘ surreal imagery ⓘ |
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: Mark Kostabi Description of subject: Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer known for his stylized, faceless figures and for designing notable album covers for major rock bands.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.