Sebastian Bach
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Sebastian Bach is a Canadian heavy metal singer best known as the former frontman of the band Skid Row.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sebastian Bach canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5144409 — 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: Sebastian Bach Context triple: [Acid Eaters, featuresArtist, Sebastian Bach]
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A.
Michael Sweet
Michael Sweet is a software engineer best known as the original developer of the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS), a widely used open-source printing system for Unix-like operating systems.
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B.
Jonathan William Davis
Jonathan William Davis, better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an influential American rapper, producer, and member of the pioneering hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest.
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C.
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock is an English bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
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D.
Ben Weasel
Ben Weasel is an American punk rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the influential pop-punk band Screeching Weasel.
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E.
Frank Bello
Frank Bello is an American bassist best known for his long-standing role in the thrash metal band Anthrax.
- 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: Sebastian Bach Target entity description: Sebastian Bach is a Canadian heavy metal singer best known as the former frontman of the band Skid Row.
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A.
Michael Sweet
Michael Sweet is a software engineer best known as the original developer of the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS), a widely used open-source printing system for Unix-like operating systems.
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B.
Jonathan William Davis
Jonathan William Davis, better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an influential American rapper, producer, and member of the pioneering hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest.
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C.
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock is an English bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
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D.
Ben Weasel
Ben Weasel is an American punk rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the influential pop-punk band Screeching Weasel.
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E.
Frank Bello
Frank Bello is an American bassist best known for his long-standing role in the thrash metal band Anthrax.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heavy metal musician
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human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | mid-1980s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Broadway musical "Jekyll & Hyde"
NERFINISHED
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Broadway musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" NERFINISHED ⓘ Broadway musical "The Rocky Horror Show" NERFINISHED ⓘ TV series "Gilmore Girls" NERFINISHED ⓘ reality show "Celebrity Fit Club" NERFINISHED ⓘ reality show "Supergroup" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Sebastian Philip Bierk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-04-03 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1996 (Skid Row) ⓘ |
| familyName | Bierk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerSpouse | Maria Aquinar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
glam metal
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hard rock ⓘ heavy metal ⓘ |
| givenName | Sebastian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
London Bierk
NERFINISHED
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Paris Bierk NERFINISHED ⓘ Sebastian Bierk Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | classic hard rock bands ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | Skid Row NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Sebastian Bach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the former lead singer of Skid Row ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "Skid Row"
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album "Slave to the Grind" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Subhuman Race" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Freeport, Bahamas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | lead vocalist of Skid Row ⓘ |
| soloAlbum |
"Angel Down"
NERFINISHED
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"Bring 'Em Bach Alive!" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Child Within the Man" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Give 'Em Hell" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Kicking & Screaming" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Suzanne Le (married 2015) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Sebastian Bach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1987 (Skid Row) ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Sebastian Bach Description of subject: Sebastian Bach is a Canadian heavy metal singer best known as the former frontman of the band Skid Row.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.