Dream Theater
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Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band renowned for its complex compositions, virtuosic musicianship, and influential role in shaping modern progressive music.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1794557 — 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: Dream Theater Context triple: [Yes, influenced, Dream Theater]
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Styx
Styx is a primordial goddess and river of the Underworld in Greek mythology, famed as the sacred boundary over which the gods swore unbreakable oaths.
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Styx
Styx is a small outer moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, located between the orbits of Charon and Nix in the Pluto system.
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Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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Mahavishnu Orchestra
Mahavishnu Orchestra was a pioneering 1970s jazz fusion band led by guitarist John McLaughlin, renowned for its virtuosic musicianship and innovative blend of jazz, rock, and Eastern musical influences.
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Mastodon
Mastodon is an American progressive/sludge metal band known for its complex compositions, concept albums, and critical acclaim within the modern metal scene.
- 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: Dream Theater Target entity description: Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band renowned for its complex compositions, virtuosic musicianship, and influential role in shaping modern progressive music.
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A.
Styx
Styx is a small outer moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, located between the orbits of Charon and Nix in the Pluto system.
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B.
Styx
Styx is a primordial goddess and river of the Underworld in Greek mythology, famed as the sacred boundary over which the gods swore unbreakable oaths.
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C.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is an American indie folk band known for its cinematic, atmospheric sound and storytelling-driven songs such as "The Night We Met."
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D.
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Mahavishnu Orchestra was a pioneering 1970s jazz fusion band led by guitarist John McLaughlin, renowned for its virtuosic musicianship and innovative blend of jazz, rock, and Eastern musical influences.
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E.
Mastodon
Mastodon is an American progressive/sludge metal band known for its complex compositions, concept albums, and critical acclaim within the modern metal scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (89)
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: Dream Theater Description of subject: Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band renowned for its complex compositions, virtuosic musicianship, and influential role in shaping modern progressive music.
Referenced by (186)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Yes (band)
linked to: Dream Theater
linked to: Dream Theater
linked to: Dream Theater