Zedd
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Zedd is a Grammy-winning Russian-German DJ and electronic music producer known for mainstream EDM hits and high-profile pop collaborations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zedd canonical | 65 |
| Zedd discography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2638744 — 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: Zedd Context triple: [Jon Bellion, associatedAct, Zedd]
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A.
Jon Bellion
Jon Bellion is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and producer known for his genre-blending pop and hip-hop sound and for writing and producing hits for both himself and other major artists.
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B.
Khalid
Khalid is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter known for his smooth vocals and breakout hits like "Location" and "Young Dumb & Broke."
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C.
Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris is a Scottish DJ, record producer, and songwriter known for his chart-topping electronic dance music and collaborations with major pop artists.
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D.
Martin Garrix
Martin Garrix is a Dutch DJ and electronic music producer known for global EDM hits like "Animals" and for headlining major festivals worldwide.
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E.
Toby Gad
Toby Gad is a German-born, Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer known for crafting hit pop and R&B songs for artists such as John Legend, Beyoncé, and Fergie.
- 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: Zedd Target entity description: Zedd is a Grammy-winning Russian-German DJ and electronic music producer known for mainstream EDM hits and high-profile pop collaborations.
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A.
Jon Bellion
Jon Bellion is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and producer known for his genre-blending pop and hip-hop sound and for writing and producing hits for both himself and other major artists.
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B.
Khalid
Khalid is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter known for his smooth vocals and breakout hits like "Location" and "Young Dumb & Broke."
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C.
Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris is a Scottish DJ, record producer, and songwriter known for his chart-topping electronic dance music and collaborations with major pop artists.
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D.
Martin Garrix
Martin Garrix is a Dutch DJ and electronic music producer known for global EDM hits like "Animals" and for headlining major festivals worldwide.
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E.
Toby Gad
Toby Gad is a German-born, Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer known for crafting hit pop and R&B songs for artists such as John Legend, Beyoncé, and Fergie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DJ
ⓘ
electronic musician ⓘ human ⓘ record producer ⓘ remixer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2002 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Alessia Cara
ⓘ
Ariana Grande ⓘ Foxes ⓘ Grey ⓘ Hayley Williams ⓘ Katy Perry ⓘ Lady Gaga ⓘ Maren Morris ⓘ Selena Gomez ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Clarity ⓘ |
| awardReceivedYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| birthName | Anton Zaslavski ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1989-09-02 ⓘ |
| debutStudioAlbum | Clarity ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Russian-German ⓘ |
| genre |
electro house
ⓘ
electronic dance music ⓘ pop ⓘ progressive house ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Daft Punk
ⓘ
Justice ⓘ The Chemical Brothers ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
ⓘ
piano ⓘ |
| label |
Dim Mak Records
ⓘ
Interscope Records ⓘ Owsla ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beautiful Now
ⓘ
Break Free ⓘ Clarity ⓘ I Want You to Know ⓘ Spectrum ⓘ Stay ⓘ Stay the Night ⓘ The Middle ⓘ |
| occupation |
DJ
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ⓘ |
| secondStudioAlbum | True Colors ⓘ |
| stageName | Zedd ⓘ |
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: Zedd Description of subject: Zedd is a Grammy-winning Russian-German DJ and electronic music producer known for mainstream EDM hits and high-profile pop collaborations.
Referenced by (66)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.