Zero
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"Zero" is a heavy, riff-driven alternative rock song by The Smashing Pumpkins, known for its dark, nihilistic lyrics and prominence on their 1995 album *Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness*.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6500249 — 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: Zero Context triple: [The Smashing Pumpkins, notableSong, Zero]
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A.
Zero
Zero is the common nickname for the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a highly maneuverable Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft used extensively during World War II.
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B.
Numero Zero
Numero Zero is a satirical novel by Umberto Eco that explores media manipulation, conspiracy theories, and the construction of history through a failed newspaper’s editorial team in 1990s Italy.
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C.
Code to Zero
Code to Zero is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Ken Follett that follows an amnesiac rocket scientist uncovering a conspiracy tied to the early days of the space race.
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D.
The Nothing
"The Nothing" is a track by Kid Cudi from his experimental, grunge-influenced album *Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven*.
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E.
Never
Never was the historical name of the Russian town now known as Skovorodino in Amur Oblast.
- 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: Zero Target entity description: "Zero" is a heavy, riff-driven alternative rock song by The Smashing Pumpkins, known for its dark, nihilistic lyrics and prominence on their 1995 album *Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness*.
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A.
Zero
Zero is the common nickname for the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a highly maneuverable Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft used extensively during World War II.
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B.
Numero Zero
Numero Zero is a satirical novel by Umberto Eco that explores media manipulation, conspiracy theories, and the construction of history through a failed newspaper’s editorial team in 1990s Italy.
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C.
Code to Zero
Code to Zero is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Ken Follett that follows an amnesiac rocket scientist uncovering a conspiracy tied to the early days of the space race.
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D.
The Nothing
"The Nothing" is a track by Kid Cudi from his experimental, grunge-influenced album *Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven*.
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E.
Never
Never was the historical name of the Russian town now known as Skovorodino in Amur Oblast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | The Smashing Pumpkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTour | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
charted on UK Singles Chart
ⓘ
charted on US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks ⓘ |
| composer | Billy Corgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfSingleRelease |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discOnAlbum | Dawn to Dusk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1990s alternative rock ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
distorted electric guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ overdubbed guitar layers ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
grunge ⓘ hard rock ⓘ |
| hasBside |
Believe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cherry NERFINISHED ⓘ Marquis in Spades NERFINISHED ⓘ Pastichio Medley NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennies NERFINISHED ⓘ Tribute to Johnny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Zero (music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyCharacteristic | heavy, riff-driven sound ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
existential angst
ⓘ
nihilism ⓘ self-loathing ⓘ |
| lyricist | Billy Corgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector |
Billy Corgan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yelena Yemchuk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLyric | "Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness, and cleanliness is godliness, and God is empty just like me" ⓘ |
| notableMerchandise | "Zero" T-shirt worn by Billy Corgan ⓘ |
| partOf | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | The Smashing Pumpkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Alan Moulder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billy Corgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Flood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Hut Recordings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virgin Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| singleReleaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| tempo | fast ⓘ |
| trackNumberOnAlbum | 4 ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | aggressive ⓘ |
| writer | Billy Corgan 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: Zero Description of subject: "Zero" is a heavy, riff-driven alternative rock song by The Smashing Pumpkins, known for its dark, nihilistic lyrics and prominence on their 1995 album *Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
“Zero”