The Mars Volta
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The Mars Volta is an American progressive rock band known for its complex song structures, experimental sound, and energetic live performances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Mars Volta canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5199717 — 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 Mars Volta Context triple: [Storm Thorgerson, workedWith, The Mars Volta]
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A.
Guayna Capac
Guayna Capac is an alternative name for Huayna Capac, the Inca emperor who greatly expanded the Inca Empire in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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B.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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C.
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are an American experimental rock band known for their psychedelic sound, elaborate live shows, and critically acclaimed albums like "The Soft Bulletin" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."
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D.
Protomartyr
Protomartyr is the title traditionally given to Saint Stephen as the first Christian martyr.
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E.
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American experimental rock band known for its lush, psychedelic soundscapes and critically acclaimed albums such as "Deserter's Songs."
- 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 Mars Volta Target entity description: The Mars Volta is an American progressive rock band known for its complex song structures, experimental sound, and energetic live performances.
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A.
Guayna Capac
Guayna Capac is an alternative name for Huayna Capac, the Inca emperor who greatly expanded the Inca Empire in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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B.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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C.
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are an American experimental rock band known for their psychedelic sound, elaborate live shows, and critically acclaimed albums like "The Soft Bulletin" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."
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D.
Protomartyr
Protomartyr is the title traditionally given to Saint Stephen as the first Christian martyr.
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E.
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American experimental rock band known for its lush, psychedelic soundscapes and critically acclaimed albums such as "Deserter's Songs."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rock band ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Antemasque
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
At the Drive-In NERFINISHED ⓘ De Facto NERFINISHED ⓘ Omar Rodríguez-López Group NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Hot Chili Peppers NERFINISHED ⓘ Sparta NERFINISHED ⓘ Zavalaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardWinningWork | Wax Simulacra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | De-Loused in the Comatorium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| disbandedInYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Cedric Bixler-Zavala
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Omar Rodríguez-López NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Latin rock
ⓘ
art rock ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ post-hardcore ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Adrián Terrazas-González
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blake Fleming NERFINISHED ⓘ Cedric Bixler-Zavala NERFINISHED ⓘ Deantoni Parks NERFINISHED ⓘ Eva Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ Flea NERFINISHED ⓘ Isaiah "Ikey" Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeremy Michael Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Theodore NERFINISHED ⓘ Juan Alderete NERFINISHED ⓘ Lars Stalfors NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcel Rodríguez-López NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Balzary NERFINISHED ⓘ Omar Rodríguez-López NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Hinojos NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Pridgen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex song structures
ⓘ
energetic live performances ⓘ experimental sound ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Amputechture
NERFINISHED
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De-Loused in the Comatorium NERFINISHED ⓘ Frances the Mute NERFINISHED ⓘ Noctourniquet NERFINISHED ⓘ Octahedron NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bedlam in Goliath NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mars Volta (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | El Paso, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Clouds Hill
NERFINISHED
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Gold Standard Laboratories NERFINISHED ⓘ Strummer Recordings NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Records ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| reformedInYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| wonAward | Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Mars Volta Description of subject: The Mars Volta is an American progressive rock band known for its complex song structures, experimental sound, and energetic live performances.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.