Opeth
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Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal band renowned for blending death metal, progressive rock, and acoustic elements into complex, atmospheric compositions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Opeth canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5758663 — 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: Opeth Context triple: [Roadrunner Records, signedArtist, Opeth]
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A.
Gojira
Gojira is the original Japanese name for Godzilla, the iconic giant monster from Japanese cinema and pop culture.
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B.
Avantasia
Avantasia is a German metal supergroup and rock opera project created by Tobias Sammet, known for its symphonic power metal concept albums featuring numerous guest musicians.
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C.
In Flames
In Flames is a pioneering Swedish metal band widely credited with shaping the Gothenburg melodic death metal sound and influencing modern metal worldwide.
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D.
Helloween
Helloween is a German power metal band, formed in the 1980s, known as one of the pioneering and most influential groups in the genre.
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E.
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American thrash metal band, founded by guitarist Dave Mustaine, known for its fast, technically complex music and influential role in shaping the genre.
- 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: Opeth Target entity description: Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal band renowned for blending death metal, progressive rock, and acoustic elements into complex, atmospheric compositions.
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A.
Gojira
Gojira is the original Japanese name for Godzilla, the iconic giant monster from Japanese cinema and pop culture.
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B.
Avantasia
Avantasia is a German metal supergroup and rock opera project created by Tobias Sammet, known for its symphonic power metal concept albums featuring numerous guest musicians.
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C.
In Flames
In Flames is a pioneering Swedish metal band widely credited with shaping the Gothenburg melodic death metal sound and influencing modern metal worldwide.
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D.
Helloween
Helloween is a German power metal band, formed in the 1980s, known as one of the pioneering and most influential groups in the genre.
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E.
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American thrash metal band, founded by guitarist Dave Mustaine, known for its fast, technically complex music and influential role in shaping the genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (85)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swedish metal band
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band ⓘ progressive metal band ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bloodbath
NERFINISHED
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Katatonia NERFINISHED ⓘ Porcupine Tree NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Storm Corrosion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassist | Martín Méndez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Orchid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInCity | Stockholm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInCountry | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| founder | David Isberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
acoustic rock
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avant-garde metal ⓘ death metal ⓘ extreme metal ⓘ folk rock ⓘ progressive metal ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasAlbum |
Blackwater Park
NERFINISHED
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Damnation NERFINISHED ⓘ Deliverance NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghost Reveries NERFINISHED ⓘ Heritage NERFINISHED ⓘ In Cauda Venenum NERFINISHED ⓘ Morningrise NERFINISHED ⓘ My Arms, Your Hearse NERFINISHED ⓘ Orchid NERFINISHED ⓘ Pale Communion NERFINISHED ⓘ Sorceress NERFINISHED ⓘ Still Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormerMember |
Anders Nordin
NERFINISHED
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David Isberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Johan De Farfalla NERFINISHED ⓘ Kim Pettersson NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Axenrot NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Lopez NERFINISHED ⓘ Mattias Ander NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Döring NERFINISHED ⓘ Per Wiberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Lindgren NERFINISHED ⓘ Stefan Guteklint NERFINISHED ⓘ Tomás Åkvik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLiveAlbum |
Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
NERFINISHED
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Lamentations (Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire 2003) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Roundhouse Tapes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Fredrik Åkesson
NERFINISHED
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Joakim Svalberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Martín Méndez NERFINISHED ⓘ Mikael Åkerfeldt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyboardist | Joakim Svalberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label |
Candlelight Records
NERFINISHED
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Century Media Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Music For Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ Roadrunner Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | English ⓘ |
| leadGuitarist | Fredrik Åkesson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longestServingMember | Mikael Åkerfeldt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
death
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existentialism ⓘ melancholy ⓘ romanticism ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Blackwater Park
NERFINISHED
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Ghost Reveries NERFINISHED ⓘ Still Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of death metal and progressive rock
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dynamic shifts between heavy and acoustic passages ⓘ long, complex song structures ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Deliverance
NERFINISHED
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Ghost of Perdition NERFINISHED ⓘ The Drapery Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ Windowpane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
frequent tempo and time-signature changes
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melancholic and atmospheric sound ⓘ use of growled and clean vocals ⓘ |
| touringRegion |
Asia
NERFINISHED
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Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Mikael Åkerfeldt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Opeth Description of subject: Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal band renowned for blending death metal, progressive rock, and acoustic elements into complex, atmospheric compositions.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.