The Cult
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The Cult is a British rock band formed in the early 1980s, known for its blend of post-punk, hard rock, and gothic influences and hits like "She Sells Sanctuary" and "Fire Woman."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Cult canonical | 28 |
| Southern Death Cult | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3972077 — 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: The Cult Context triple: [Guns N' Roses, associatedAct, The Cult]
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A.
Demon Deacons
Demon Deacons is the distinctive nickname and mascot identity for Wake Forest University's athletic teams.
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B.
Holy Terror
Holy Terror is a controversial graphic novel by Frank Miller, published by Legendary Comics, that follows a superhero-style vigilante battling Islamic terrorists.
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C.
Medeus
Medeus is a character known as one of the children of Jason, sharing in the mythological legacy surrounding the hero’s family.
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D.
Lambs of God
Lambs of God is an Australian television miniseries adapted from Marele Day’s gothic novel, blending mystery, religion, and dark drama around three reclusive nuns whose isolated life is disrupted by a visiting priest.
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E.
Orange Order
The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal organization originating in Ireland, known for promoting unionism and organizing parades, particularly in Northern Ireland.
- 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: The Cult Target entity description: The Cult is a British rock band formed in the early 1980s, known for its blend of post-punk, hard rock, and gothic influences and hits like "She Sells Sanctuary" and "Fire Woman."
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A.
Demon Deacons
Demon Deacons is the distinctive nickname and mascot identity for Wake Forest University's athletic teams.
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B.
Holy Terror
Holy Terror is a controversial graphic novel by Frank Miller, published by Legendary Comics, that follows a superhero-style vigilante battling Islamic terrorists.
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C.
Medeus
Medeus is a character known as one of the children of Jason, sharing in the mythological legacy surrounding the hero’s family.
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D.
Lambs of God
Lambs of God is an Australian television miniseries adapted from Marele Day’s gothic novel, blending mystery, religion, and dark drama around three reclusive nuns whose isolated life is disrupted by a visiting priest.
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E.
Orange Order
The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal organization originating in Ireland, known for promoting unionism and organizing parades, particularly in Northern Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (78)
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: The Cult Description of subject: The Cult is a British rock band formed in the early 1980s, known for its blend of post-punk, hard rock, and gothic influences and hits like "She Sells Sanctuary" and "Fire Woman."
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Cult
linked to: The Cult
subject linked to:
American Recordings label
linked to: The Cult