Suicide
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Suicide is an influential English punk band formed in the 1970s, known for its pioneering role in the synth-punk and electronic music scenes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Suicide canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5255444 — 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: Suicide Context triple: [Craig Leon, associatedWith, Suicide]
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A.
Suicide
"Suicide" is a track by American rapper Pusha T, featuring Ab-Liva, from his critically acclaimed debut studio album *My Name Is My Name*.
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B.
World Wide Suicide
"World Wide Suicide" is a politically charged rock song by American band Pearl Jam, released in 2006 and widely recognized for its critique of the Iraq War.
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C.
National Suicide Day
National Suicide Day is a fictional annual observance in Toni Morrison’s novel "Sula," created by the traumatized veteran Shadrack as a ritualized day for contemplating or committing suicide.
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D.
Suicide Bridge
Suicide Bridge is the grim nickname for Pasadena’s historic Colorado Street Bridge, notorious for the large number of people who have died by jumping from it.
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E.
The All-Suicide Channel
The All-Suicide Channel is a darkly satirical segment from George Carlin’s stand-up special "Life Is Worth Losing," in which he imagines a TV network devoted entirely to broadcasting suicides as a critique of media sensationalism.
- 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: Suicide Target entity description: Suicide is an influential English punk band formed in the 1970s, known for its pioneering role in the synth-punk and electronic music scenes.
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A.
Suicide
"Suicide" is a track by American rapper Pusha T, featuring Ab-Liva, from his critically acclaimed debut studio album *My Name Is My Name*.
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B.
World Wide Suicide
"World Wide Suicide" is a politically charged rock song by American band Pearl Jam, released in 2006 and widely recognized for its critique of the Iraq War.
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C.
National Suicide Day
National Suicide Day is a fictional annual observance in Toni Morrison’s novel "Sula," created by the traumatized veteran Shadrack as a ritualized day for contemplating or committing suicide.
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D.
Suicide Bridge
Suicide Bridge is the grim nickname for Pasadena’s historic Colorado Street Bridge, notorious for the large number of people who have died by jumping from it.
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E.
The All-Suicide Channel
The All-Suicide Channel is a darkly satirical segment from George Carlin’s stand-up special "Life Is Worth Losing," in which he imagines a TV network devoted entirely to broadcasting suicides as a critique of media sensationalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
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proto-punk band ⓘ synth-punk band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
electronic music
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electropunk ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ industrial music ⓘ minimal synth ⓘ no wave ⓘ post-punk ⓘ proto-punk ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ synth-punk ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Alan Vega
NERFINISHED
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Martin Rev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1970 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bruce Springsteen
NERFINISHED
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Daft Punk NERFINISHED ⓘ Depeche Mode NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Cave NERFINISHED ⓘ Nine Inch Nails NERFINISHED ⓘ Soft Cell NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonic Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jesus and Mary Chain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFact |
Suicide is regarded as a pioneering act in electronic music and synth-punk
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Suicide often used minimalist drum machines and synthesizers instead of a traditional rock band setup NERFINISHED ⓘ Suicide was known for confrontational and provocative live performances NERFINISHED ⓘ Suicide was one of the first bands to describe their music as punk in the early 1970s NERFINISHED ⓘ The debut album Suicide (1977) is frequently cited as highly influential in alternative and electronic music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alan Vega · Martin Rev (1980 EP)
NERFINISHED
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Cheree NERFINISHED ⓘ Frankie Teardrop NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghost Rider NERFINISHED ⓘ Suicide (1977 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Suicide (1980 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupationOfMember |
Alan Vega was the vocalist of Suicide
NERFINISHED
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Martin Rev was the keyboardist of Suicide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blast First
NERFINISHED
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Mute Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Star Records NERFINISHED ⓘ ZE Records 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: Suicide Description of subject: Suicide is an influential English punk band formed in the 1970s, known for its pioneering role in the synth-punk and electronic music scenes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.