Samson
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Samson is a British heavy metal band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, best known for featuring future Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson early in his career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18193615 — 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: Samson Context triple: [NWOBHM, notableBand, Samson]
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A.
Samson
Samson is a legendary Israelite judge and warrior famed for his superhuman strength, whose story is told in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Samson
Samson is a small uninhabited island in the Isles of Scilly, off the southwestern coast of England, known for its natural beauty and archaeological remains.
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C.
Samson the Nazarite
"Samson the Nazarite" is a 1927 historical novel by Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky that reimagines the biblical story of Samson as a modern nationalist and freedom-fighter narrative.
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D.
Hercules Saxanus
Hercules Saxanus is a local Italic-Roman cult figure associated with Hercules, likely venerated as a protector of stoneworkers or rocky places and possibly honored at the Temple of the Sibyl in Tivoli.
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E.
Eleseus
Eleseus is a character in Knut Hamsun’s novel "Growth of the Soil," portrayed as the more educated and urban-minded son whose ambitions contrast with his family’s rural, agrarian life.
- 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: Samson Target entity description: Samson is a British heavy metal band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, best known for featuring future Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson early in his career.
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A.
Samson
Samson is a legendary Israelite judge and warrior famed for his superhuman strength, whose story is told in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Samson
Samson is a small uninhabited island in the Isles of Scilly, off the southwestern coast of England, known for its natural beauty and archaeological remains.
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C.
Samson the Nazarite
"Samson the Nazarite" is a 1927 historical novel by Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky that reimagines the biblical story of Samson as a modern nationalist and freedom-fighter narrative.
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D.
Hercules Saxanus
Hercules Saxanus is a local Italic-Roman cult figure associated with Hercules, likely venerated as a protector of stoneworkers or rocky places and possibly honored at the Temple of the Sibyl in Tivoli.
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E.
Eleseus
Eleseus is a character in Knut Hamsun’s novel "Growth of the Soil," portrayed as the more educated and urban-minded son whose ambitions contrast with his family’s rural, agrarian life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.