Chester Bennington
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Chester Bennington was an American rock singer best known as the powerful and emotive lead vocalist of the band Linkin Park.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chester Bennington canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5936881 — 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: Chester Bennington Context triple: [Linkin Park, hasMember, Chester Bennington]
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A.
Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell was an American rock musician best known as the powerful lead vocalist of Soundgarden and Audioslave and a key figure in the Seattle grunge movement.
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B.
Andrew Wood
Andrew Wood was the charismatic lead singer of the Seattle band Mother Love Bone whose death from a heroin overdose inspired the creation of the tribute supergroup Temple of the Dog.
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C.
Layne Staley
Layne Staley was an American singer and songwriter best known as the powerful, haunting lead vocalist and co-lyricist of the grunge band Alice in Chains.
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D.
Zack de la Rocha
Zack de la Rocha is an American musician, poet, and political activist best known as the fiery lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band Rage Against the Machine.
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E.
Jacoby Shaddix
Jacoby Shaddix is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and frontman of the rock band Papa Roach.
- 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: Chester Bennington Target entity description: Chester Bennington was an American rock singer best known as the powerful and emotive lead vocalist of the band Linkin Park.
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A.
Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell was an American rock musician best known as the powerful lead vocalist of Soundgarden and Audioslave and a key figure in the Seattle grunge movement.
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B.
Andrew Wood
Andrew Wood was the charismatic lead singer of the Seattle band Mother Love Bone whose death from a heroin overdose inspired the creation of the tribute supergroup Temple of the Dog.
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C.
Layne Staley
Layne Staley was an American singer and songwriter best known as the powerful, haunting lead vocalist and co-lyricist of the grunge band Alice in Chains.
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D.
Zack de la Rocha
Zack de la Rocha is an American musician, poet, and political activist best known as the fiery lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band Rage Against the Machine.
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E.
Jacoby Shaddix
Jacoby Shaddix is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and frontman of the rock band Papa Roach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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rock singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Brad Delson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Farrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Dead by Sunrise NERFINISHED ⓘ Grey Daze NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Hahn NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Shinoda NERFINISHED ⓘ Rob Bourdon NERFINISHED ⓘ Stone Temple Pilots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide by hanging ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1976-03-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-07-20 ⓘ |
| endTimeOfMembershipInLinkinPark | 2017 ⓘ |
| familyName | Bennington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Chester Charles Bennington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative metal
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alternative rock ⓘ nu metal ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| givenName | Chester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | nu metal ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Dead by Sunrise
NERFINISHED
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Grey Daze NERFINISHED ⓘ Linkin Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Stone Temple Pilots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | co-led Linkin Park to mainstream success with the album Hybrid Theory in 2000 ⓘ |
| notableRole | lead vocalist of Linkin Park ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dead by Sunrise – Out of Ashes
NERFINISHED
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Hybrid Theory NERFINISHED ⓘ Meteora NERFINISHED ⓘ Minutes to Midnight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 6 ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Phoenix, Arizona, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Palos Verdes Estates, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Samantha Marie Olit
NERFINISHED
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Talinda Bennington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMembershipInLinkinPark | 1999 ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1992–2017 ⓘ |
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: Chester Bennington Description of subject: Chester Bennington was an American rock singer best known as the powerful and emotive lead vocalist of the band Linkin Park.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.