Def Leppard
E148864
Def Leppard is a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished hard rock sound and massively successful albums like "Pyromania" and "Hysteria."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Def Leppard canonical | 102 |
| Def Leppard (live performances) | 1 |
| Def Leppard discography | 1 |
| Def Leppard – Hysteria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1308865 — 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: Def Leppard Context triple: [Mercury Records, notableArtist, Def Leppard]
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A.
Quarterflash
Quarterflash is an American rock band best known for their early-1980s hit single "Harden My Heart."
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B.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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C.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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D.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
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E.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is a legendary American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for their blues-influenced hard rock sound and hits like "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion," and "Walk This Way."
- 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: Def Leppard Target entity description: Def Leppard is a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished hard rock sound and massively successful albums like "Pyromania" and "Hysteria."
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A.
Quarterflash
Quarterflash is an American rock band best known for their early-1980s hit single "Harden My Heart."
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B.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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C.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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D.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
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E.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is a legendary American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for their blues-influenced hard rock sound and hits like "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion," and "Walk This Way."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Def Leppard Description of subject: Def Leppard is a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished hard rock sound and massively successful albums like "Pyromania" and "Hysteria."
Referenced by (105)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.