Dave Lombardo
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Dave Lombardo is a Cuban-American drummer best known as the founding and longtime drummer of the influential thrash metal band Slayer, renowned for his speed, power, and innovation in metal drumming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dave Lombardo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5910320 — 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: Dave Lombardo Context triple: [Slayer, member, Dave Lombardo]
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A.
Charlie Benante
Charlie Benante is an American drummer best known as a longtime member and primary songwriter of the thrash metal band Anthrax.
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B.
Billy Sheehan
Billy Sheehan is a virtuoso American bassist known for his technically advanced playing and work with bands like Mr. Big, Talas, and David Lee Roth.
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C.
Steven Adler
Steven Adler is an American drummer best known as the original drummer for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses during their classic late-1980s lineup.
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D.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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E.
Terry Bozzio
Terry Bozzio is an American drummer renowned for his virtuosic, polyrhythmic playing and work with Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, and various rock and fusion projects.
- 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: Dave Lombardo Target entity description: Dave Lombardo is a Cuban-American drummer best known as the founding and longtime drummer of the influential thrash metal band Slayer, renowned for his speed, power, and innovation in metal drumming.
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A.
Charlie Benante
Charlie Benante is an American drummer best known as a longtime member and primary songwriter of the thrash metal band Anthrax.
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B.
Billy Sheehan
Billy Sheehan is a virtuoso American bassist known for his technically advanced playing and work with bands like Mr. Big, Talas, and David Lee Roth.
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C.
Steven Adler
Steven Adler is an American drummer best known as the original drummer for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses during their classic late-1980s lineup.
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D.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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E.
Terry Bozzio
Terry Bozzio is an American drummer renowned for his virtuosic, polyrhythmic playing and work with Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, and various rock and fusion projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1981 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dead Cross
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fantômas NERFINISHED ⓘ Grip Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ John Zorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Patton NERFINISHED ⓘ Misfits NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Bungle NERFINISHED ⓘ Slayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Suicidal Tendencies NERFINISHED ⓘ Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | David Lombardo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Slayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Cuba
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-02-16 ⓘ |
| endTime |
1992 (first tenure with Slayer)
ⓘ
2013 (second tenure with Slayer) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Cuban American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lombardo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
heavy metal
ⓘ
punk rock ⓘ speed metal ⓘ thrash metal ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | 2 (children) ⓘ |
| influenced | modern thrash metal drummers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bill Ward
NERFINISHED
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Ginger Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ John Bonham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | drum kit ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Dead Cross
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fantômas NERFINISHED ⓘ Grip Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ Misfits (touring drummer) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Bungle NERFINISHED ⓘ Slayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Suicidal Tendencies NERFINISHED ⓘ Testament (touring drummer) ⓘ |
| name | Dave Lombardo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fast double bass drumming
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innovative metal drumming ⓘ use of polyrhythms in metal drumming ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Reign in Blood (album, as drummer of Slayer)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seasons in the Abyss (album, as drummer of Slayer) NERFINISHED ⓘ South of Heaven (album, as drummer of Slayer) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Havana, Cuba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| role | drummer of Slayer ⓘ |
| spouse | Teresa Lombardo (ex-wife) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
1981 (as drummer of Slayer)
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2001 (second tenure with Slayer) ⓘ |
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: Dave Lombardo Description of subject: Dave Lombardo is a Cuban-American drummer best known as the founding and longtime drummer of the influential thrash metal band Slayer, renowned for his speed, power, and innovation in metal drumming.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.