Meat Loaf
E161722
Meat Loaf was an American rock singer and actor best known for his powerful theatrical vocals and his multi-platinum album "Bat Out of Hell."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meat Loaf canonical | 87 |
| Meat Loaf and Cher | 1 |
| Meat Loaf touring band | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1416494 — 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 Loaf Context triple: [Epic Records, hasArtist, Meat Loaf]
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A.
Daniel "Oz" Osbourne
Daniel "Oz" Osbourne is a laconic, guitar-playing werewolf and member of the Scooby Gang on the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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B.
Liberace
Liberace was a flamboyant American pianist and entertainer known for his virtuosic performances, extravagant costumes, and popular television shows from the 1950s onward.
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C.
Arthur Brown Jr.
Arthur Brown Jr. was an American architect best known for designing prominent civic landmarks in San Francisco, including its City Hall and other Beaux-Arts style public buildings.
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D.
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson is an American shock-rock musician and controversial cultural figure known for his provocative image, theatrical performances, and industrial metal sound.
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E.
Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter was a British actor known for his prolific film and stage career in the early to mid-20th century, often appearing in Hollywood productions.
- 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 Loaf Target entity description: Meat Loaf was an American rock singer and actor best known for his powerful theatrical vocals and his multi-platinum album "Bat Out of Hell."
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A.
Daniel "Oz" Osbourne
Daniel "Oz" Osbourne is a laconic, guitar-playing werewolf and member of the Scooby Gang on the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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B.
Liberace
Liberace was a flamboyant American pianist and entertainer known for his virtuosic performances, extravagant costumes, and popular television shows from the 1950s onward.
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C.
Arthur Brown Jr.
Arthur Brown Jr. was an American architect best known for designing prominent civic landmarks in San Francisco, including its City Hall and other Beaux-Arts style public buildings.
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D.
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson is an American shock-rock musician and controversial cultural figure known for his provocative image, theatrical performances, and industrial metal sound.
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E.
Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter was a British actor known for his prolific film and stage career in the early to mid-20th century, often appearing in Hollywood productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Meat Loaf Description of subject: Meat Loaf was an American rock singer and actor best known for his powerful theatrical vocals and his multi-platinum album "Bat Out of Hell."
Referenced by (89)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Epic
subject linked to:
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
subject linked to:
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
linked to: Meat Loaf
subject linked to:
I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)
subject linked to:
I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)
subject linked to:
I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)
linked to: Meat Loaf