Gary Holt
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Gary Holt is an American thrash metal guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist and primary songwriter for Exodus and later as a touring and recording guitarist for Slayer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gary Holt canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5910322 — 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: Gary Holt Context triple: [Slayer, member, Gary Holt]
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A.
Matt Hulett
Matt Hulett is an American technology and business executive known for leading and scaling multiple software and digital media companies.
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B.
Gary Morris
Gary Morris is an American country music artist best known for his rich tenor voice and a string of hits in the 1980s, including his acclaimed rendition of “Wind Beneath My Wings.”
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C.
John Hollar
John Hollar is the anxious, struggling young father-to-be at the center of the 2016 dramedy film "The Hollars," who returns to his small hometown when his mother falls ill.
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D.
Bart Howard
Bart Howard was an American songwriter best known for writing the jazz standard "Fly Me to the Moon."
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E.
Ken Maynard
Ken Maynard was a popular American silent- and early sound-era Western film star and stunt rider known for his roles as a cowboy hero.
- 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: Gary Holt Target entity description: Gary Holt is an American thrash metal guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist and primary songwriter for Exodus and later as a touring and recording guitarist for Slayer.
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A.
Matt Hulett
Matt Hulett is an American technology and business executive known for leading and scaling multiple software and digital media companies.
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B.
Gary Morris
Gary Morris is an American country music artist best known for his rich tenor voice and a string of hits in the 1980s, including his acclaimed rendition of “Wind Beneath My Wings.”
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C.
John Hollar
John Hollar is the anxious, struggling young father-to-be at the center of the 2016 dramedy film "The Hollars," who returns to his small hometown when his mother falls ill.
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D.
Bart Howard
Bart Howard was an American songwriter best known for writing the jazz standard "Fly Me to the Moon."
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E.
Ken Maynard
Ken Maynard was a popular American silent- and early sound-era Western film star and stunt rider known for his roles as a cowboy hero.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1981 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Angel Witch
NERFINISHED
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Exodus NERFINISHED ⓘ Slayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Wardance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Gary Wayne Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Richmond, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964-05-04 ⓘ |
| genre |
heavy metal
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thrash metal ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Angus Young
NERFINISHED
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Gary Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Schenker NERFINISHED ⓘ Ritchie Blackmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Iommi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | electric guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Exodus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Slayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being longtime lead guitarist of Exodus
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joining Slayer as touring guitarist after Jeff Hanneman’s illness ⓘ recording guitars on Slayer album Repentless ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blood In, Blood Out
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bonded by Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ Exhibit B: The Human Condition NERFINISHED ⓘ Fabulous Disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ Repentless NERFINISHED ⓘ Tempo of the Damned NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
lead guitarist of Exodus
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recording guitarist of Slayer ⓘ touring guitarist of Slayer ⓘ |
| primaryBand | Exodus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
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Metal Blade Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Nuclear Blast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInExodus |
lead guitarist
ⓘ
primary songwriter ⓘ |
| usesBrand |
ESP Guitars
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marshall Amplification 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: Gary Holt Description of subject: Gary Holt is an American thrash metal guitarist best known as the longtime lead guitarist and primary songwriter for Exodus and later as a touring and recording guitarist for Slayer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.