Meat Puppets
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Meat Puppets are an American rock band from Arizona known for their influential blend of punk, psychedelic, and country sounds, and for their prominent influence on the alternative rock scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meat Puppets canonical | 2 |
| The Meat Puppets | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7235328 — 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: Meat Puppets Context triple: [SST Records, associatedBand, Meat Puppets]
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A.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
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B.
Slint
Slint is an influential American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, widely credited with helping pioneer the post-rock and math rock genres through their intricate, atmospheric sound and the landmark album "Spiderland."
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C.
Hüsker Dü
Hüsker Dü was an influential American punk rock band from the 1980s known for blending hardcore intensity with melodic, emotionally charged songwriting.
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D.
The Jesus Lizard
The Jesus Lizard is an influential American noise rock band known for its abrasive sound, intense live performances, and prominent role in the 1990s underground rock scene.
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E.
Dinosaur Jr.
Dinosaur Jr. is an influential American alternative rock band formed in the 1980s, known for its loud, distorted guitar sound, melodic songwriting, and the distinctive vocals and guitar work of frontman J Mascis.
- 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: Meat Puppets Target entity description: Meat Puppets are an American rock band from Arizona known for their influential blend of punk, psychedelic, and country sounds, and for their prominent influence on the alternative rock scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
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A.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
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B.
Slint
Slint is an influential American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, widely credited with helping pioneer the post-rock and math rock genres through their intricate, atmospheric sound and the landmark album "Spiderland."
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C.
Hüsker Dü
Hüsker Dü was an influential American punk rock band from the 1980s known for blending hardcore intensity with melodic, emotionally charged songwriting.
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D.
The Jesus Lizard
The Jesus Lizard is an influential American noise rock band known for its abrasive sound, intense live performances, and prominent role in the 1990s underground rock scene.
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E.
Dinosaur Jr.
Dinosaur Jr. is an influential American alternative rock band formed in the 1980s, known for its loud, distorted guitar sound, melodic songwriting, and the distinctive vocals and guitar work of frontman J Mascis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rock band ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ |
| album |
Dusty Notes
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Golden Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ Huevos NERFINISHED ⓘ Lollipop NERFINISHED ⓘ Meat Puppets NERFINISHED ⓘ Meat Puppets II NERFINISHED ⓘ Mirage NERFINISHED ⓘ Monsters NERFINISHED ⓘ No Joke! NERFINISHED ⓘ Rat Farm NERFINISHED ⓘ Rise to Your Knees NERFINISHED ⓘ Sewn Together NERFINISHED ⓘ Too High to Die NERFINISHED ⓘ Up on the Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Eyes Adrift
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nirvana NERFINISHED ⓘ Volcano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formedIn | 1980 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
country rock ⓘ cowpunk ⓘ post-hardcore ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| hasPastMember |
Andrew Duplantis
NERFINISHED
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Elmo Kirkwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyle Ellison NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Stabinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Shandon Sahm NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Marcus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Kurt Cobain
NERFINISHED
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Nirvana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | alternative rock ⓘ |
| member |
Cris Kirkwood
NERFINISHED
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Curt Kirkwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Derrick Bostrom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | performed with Nirvana on MTV Unplugged in New York ⓘ |
| notableRecognition | considered influential in 1980s and 1990s alternative rock scene ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Lake of Fire
NERFINISHED
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Oh, Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Meat Puppets II
NERFINISHED
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Too High to Die NERFINISHED ⓘ Up on the Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Phoenix, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
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London Records NERFINISHED ⓘ SST Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic | blend of punk, psychedelic, and country sounds ⓘ |
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: Meat Puppets Description of subject: Meat Puppets are an American rock band from Arizona known for their influential blend of punk, psychedelic, and country sounds, and for their prominent influence on the alternative rock scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Meat Puppets