Alien Ant Farm
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Alien Ant Farm is an American rock band best known for their energetic, nu metal–infused cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” and their early-2000s mainstream success.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alien Ant Farm canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9390893 — 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: Alien Ant Farm Context triple: [Smooth Criminal (Alien Ant Farm version), artist, Alien Ant Farm]
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A.
Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy is a pioneering Canadian industrial band known for its dark, experimental sound and influential role in shaping the electro-industrial genre.
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B.
Death By Stereo
Death By Stereo is a studio album by American progressive rock jam band Umphrey's McGee, showcasing their blend of complex musicianship and genre-crossing experimentation.
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C.
Madfly
Madfly was an Atlanta-based alternative rock band fronted by vocalist and guitarist William DuVall before he joined Alice in Chains.
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D.
Chief Weasel
Chief Weasel is a villainous, scheming weasel who leads a gang of stoats and weasels in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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E.
Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd is an American post-grunge rock band best known for early-2000s hits like "Blurry," "She Hates Me," and "Control."
- 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: Alien Ant Farm Target entity description: Alien Ant Farm is an American rock band best known for their energetic, nu metal–infused cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” and their early-2000s mainstream success.
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A.
Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy is a pioneering Canadian industrial band known for its dark, experimental sound and influential role in shaping the electro-industrial genre.
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B.
Death By Stereo
Death By Stereo is a studio album by American progressive rock jam band Umphrey's McGee, showcasing their blend of complex musicianship and genre-crossing experimentation.
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C.
Madfly
Madfly was an Atlanta-based alternative rock band fronted by vocalist and guitarist William DuVall before he joined Alice in Chains.
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D.
Chief Weasel
Chief Weasel is a villainous, scheming weasel who leads a gang of stoats and weasels in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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E.
Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd is an American post-grunge rock band best known for early-2000s hits like "Blurry," "She Hates Me," and "Control."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rock band ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1996–present ⓘ |
| album |
ANThology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Always and Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ Greatest Hits NERFINISHED ⓘ Mantras NERFINISHED ⓘ Truant NERFINISHED ⓘ Up in the Attic NERFINISHED ⓘ ~mAntras~ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Adema
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hoobastank NERFINISHED ⓘ P.O.D. NERFINISHED ⓘ Papa Roach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Riverside, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coveredArtist | Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coverOf | Smooth Criminal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1996 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative metal
ⓘ
alternative rock ⓘ nu metal ⓘ post-grunge ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasFormerMember |
Alex Barreto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ian Szabo NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Lyman NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Anaya NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Cosgrove Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Robbie Krelle NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Peugh NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyler Lenane NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor Camacho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Dryden Mitchell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Cosgrove NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Corso NERFINISHED ⓘ Tye Zamora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1996 ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation | Riverside, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | cover version of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Attitude
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Courage NERFINISHED ⓘ Movies ⓘ Smooth Criminal NERFINISHED ⓘ These Days NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakChartSuccessPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
DreamWorks Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Geffen Records ⓘ Megaforce Records NERFINISHED ⓘ New Noize Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Music Group ⓘ Volcano Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYearOf |
ANThology (2001)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Always and Forever (2015) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mantras (2024) NERFINISHED ⓘ Truant (2003) NERFINISHED ⓘ Up in the Attic (2006) 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: Alien Ant Farm Description of subject: Alien Ant Farm is an American rock band best known for their energetic, nu metal–infused cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” and their early-2000s mainstream success.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Smooth Criminal (Alien Ant Farm version)