Screeching Weasel
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Screeching Weasel is an American punk rock band known for its influential role in the pop-punk scene since the late 1980s.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Screeching Weasel canonical | 82 |
| Screeching Weasel discography | 6 |
| Screeching Weasel albums | 1 |
| Screeching Weasel is a pop-punk band | 1 |
| The Awful Disclosures of Screeching Weasel | 1 |
| work with Screeching Weasel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T981746 — 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: Screeching Weasel Context triple: [Mike Dirnt, associatedAct, Screeching Weasel]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
The Frustrators
The Frustrators are an American punk rock side project featuring Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt, known for their irreverent, humorous style and releases on Lookout! Records.
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D.
The Misfits
The Misfits is a 1961 American drama film, written by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston, best known as the final completed movie of both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.
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E.
The Stooges
The Stooges are a pioneering American proto-punk rock band fronted by Iggy Pop, known for their raw, aggressive sound and influential role in the development of punk music.
- 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: Screeching Weasel Target entity description: Screeching Weasel is an American punk rock band known for its influential role in the pop-punk scene since the late 1980s.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
The Frustrators
The Frustrators are an American punk rock side project featuring Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt, known for their irreverent, humorous style and releases on Lookout! Records.
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D.
The Misfits
The Misfits is a 1961 American drama film, written by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston, best known as the final completed movie of both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.
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E.
The Stooges
The Stooges are a pioneering American proto-punk rock band fronted by Iggy Pop, known for their raw, aggressive sound and influential role in the development of punk music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Screeching Weasel Description of subject: Screeching Weasel is an American punk rock band known for its influential role in the pop-punk scene since the late 1980s.
Referenced by (92)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Mass Giorgini is producer for many 1990s pop-punk bands
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Mass Giorgini is producer for many 1990s pop-punk bands
subject linked to:
Mass Giorgini (bassist)
subject linked to:
Mass Giorgini (bassist)
linked to: Screeching Weasel
linked to: Screeching Weasel
linked to: Screeching Weasel
linked to: Screeching Weasel