Angband
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Angband is an Iranian progressive metal band known for blending Western metal styles with traditional Persian musical elements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angband canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3374300 — 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: Angband Context triple: [Ramin Rahimi, associatedBand, Angband]
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A.
Kobolds & Catacombs
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B.
Dungeon Family
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C.
Dungeon Rock
Dungeon Rock is a historic cave in Lynn, Massachusetts, associated with pirate legends and 19th-century spiritualist treasure-hunting excavations.
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D.
Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is a highly complex, procedurally generated simulation and construction-management game renowned for its depth, emergent storytelling, and ASCII-based interface.
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E.
Strife
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- 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: Angband Target entity description: Angband is an Iranian progressive metal band known for blending Western metal styles with traditional Persian musical elements.
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A.
Kobolds & Catacombs
Kobolds & Catacombs is a major Hearthstone expansion themed around dungeon-delving and treasure-hunting, introducing new cards, mechanics, and a popular single-player roguelike mode.
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B.
Dungeon Family
Dungeon Family is an influential Atlanta-based hip hop and R&B collective known for launching acts like Outkast and Goodie Mob and shaping Southern rap.
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C.
Dungeon Rock
Dungeon Rock is a historic cave in Lynn, Massachusetts, associated with pirate legends and 19th-century spiritualist treasure-hunting excavations.
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D.
Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is a highly complex, procedurally generated simulation and construction-management game renowned for its depth, emergent storytelling, and ASCII-based interface.
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E.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
album
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album ⓘ album ⓘ music group ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ progressive metal band ⓘ |
| activeInGenreScene | Iranian metal scene ⓘ |
| basedIn | Tehran ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran ⓘ |
| genre |
Persian metal
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power metal ⓘ progressive metal ⓘ thrash metal ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | blend of Western metal and Persian music ⓘ |
| hasInstrument |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
Persian mythology
ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ social issues ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Ashkan Yazdani
ⓘ
Mahyar Dean ⓘ Ramin Rahimi ⓘ |
| hasMusicalInfluence |
Western metal
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traditional Persian music ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence |
official website
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social media profiles ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics |
English
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
|
| notableWork |
Rising from Apadana
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Saved from the Truth ⓘ Visions of the Seeker ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
drummer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| performer | Angband ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Pure Steel Records ⓘ |
| usesMusicalElement | traditional Persian music ⓘ |
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: Angband Description of subject: Angband is an Iranian progressive metal band known for blending Western metal styles with traditional Persian musical elements.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.