Billy Idol (touring and recording band)
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Billy Idol (touring and recording band) is the long-running rock ensemble that backs British singer Billy Idol in the studio and on tour, featuring guitarist Steve Stevens as its most prominent member.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Billy Idol (touring and recording band) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5616877 — 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: Billy Idol (touring and recording band) Context triple: [Steve Stevens, employer, Billy Idol (touring and recording band)]
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Def Leppard
Def Leppard is a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished hard rock sound and massively successful albums like "Pyromania" and "Hysteria."
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Motley Crue
Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1981, known for their glam metal sound, wild onstage antics, and hits like "Dr. Feelgood" and "Girls, Girls, Girls."
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C.
L.A. Guns
L.A. Guns is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, known as one of the key groups in the 1980s glam metal scene and for its historical ties to the early formation of Guns N' Roses.
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D.
Slade
Slade is the primary masked arch-villain and mastermind antagonist in the animated series Teen Titans, known for his strategic genius and psychological manipulation of the team, especially Robin.
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E.
Slade
Slade is a common nickname for Slade Gorton, an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Washington.
- 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: Billy Idol (touring and recording band) Target entity description: Billy Idol (touring and recording band) is the long-running rock ensemble that backs British singer Billy Idol in the studio and on tour, featuring guitarist Steve Stevens as its most prominent member.
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A.
Def Leppard
Def Leppard is a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished hard rock sound and massively successful albums like "Pyromania" and "Hysteria."
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B.
Motley Crue
Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1981, known for their glam metal sound, wild onstage antics, and hits like "Dr. Feelgood" and "Girls, Girls, Girls."
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C.
L.A. Guns
L.A. Guns is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, known as one of the key groups in the 1980s glam metal scene and for its historical ties to the early formation of Guns N' Roses.
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D.
Slade
Slade is the primary masked arch-villain and mastermind antagonist in the animated series Teen Titans, known for his strategic genius and psychological manipulation of the team, especially Robin.
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E.
Slade
Slade is a common nickname for Slade Gorton, an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Washington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
recording band
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rock band ⓘ touring band ⓘ |
| activity |
recording with Billy Idol
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touring with Billy Idol ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Billy Idol
NERFINISHED
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Steve Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backingForArtist | Billy Idol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
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pop rock ⓘ punk rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember | Steve Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecordingRole | studio band ⓘ |
| hasTouringRole | backing band ⓘ |
| notableEra |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| notableSongPerformances |
Dancing with Myself
NERFINISHED
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Eyes Without a Face NERFINISHED ⓘ Flesh for Fantasy NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebel Yell NERFINISHED ⓘ White Wedding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryVocalist | Billy Idol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleOfSteveStevens |
lead guitarist
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songwriter ⓘ |
| supportsAlbum |
Charmed Life
NERFINISHED
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Cyberpunk ⓘ Devil’s Playground NERFINISHED ⓘ Kings & Queens of the Underground NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebel Yell NERFINISHED ⓘ Whiplash Smile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsEP |
The Cage
NERFINISHED
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The Roadside NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsTour |
Charmed Life Tour
NERFINISHED
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Devil’s Playground Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ Kings & Queens of the Underground Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebel Yell Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ The Roadside Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ Whiplash Smile Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalInstrumentation |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
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: Billy Idol (touring and recording band) Description of subject: Billy Idol (touring and recording band) is the long-running rock ensemble that backs British singer Billy Idol in the studio and on tour, featuring guitarist Steve Stevens as its most prominent member.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.