Korn
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Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, known for pioneering the genre with their downtuned guitars, dark themes, and influential 1990s albums like their self-titled debut and "Follow the Leader."
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161790 — 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: Korn Context triple: [Helmet, hasInfluenced, Korn]
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Slipknot
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band known for its aggressive sound, chaotic live performances, and distinctive masked image.
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B.
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band best known for their early 2000s nu metal and alternative rock hits like "Last Resort."
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C.
Deftones
Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, known for blending heavy riffs with atmospheric and experimental soundscapes.
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D.
Skillet
Skillet is an American Christian rock band known for its energetic hard rock sound and crossover success in both Christian and mainstream music markets.
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E.
Skillet
Skillet is a minor comic character in the 1858 American play "Our American Cousin," contributing to the farcical and humorous tone of the production.
- 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: Korn Target entity description: Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, known for pioneering the genre with their downtuned guitars, dark themes, and influential 1990s albums like their self-titled debut and "Follow the Leader."
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A.
Slipknot
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band known for its aggressive sound, chaotic live performances, and distinctive masked image.
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B.
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band best known for their early 2000s nu metal and alternative rock hits like "Last Resort."
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C.
Deftones
Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, known for blending heavy riffs with atmospheric and experimental soundscapes.
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D.
Skillet
Skillet is an American Christian rock band known for its energetic hard rock sound and crossover success in both Christian and mainstream music markets.
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E.
Skillet
Skillet is a minor comic character in the 1858 American play "Our American Cousin," contributing to the farcical and humorous tone of the production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (97)
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: Korn Description of subject: Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, known for pioneering the genre with their downtuned guitars, dark themes, and influential 1990s albums like their self-titled debut and "Follow the Leader."
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
NRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood
linked to: Korn
subject linked to:
Ibanez Universe guitar
subject linked to:
Big Day Out music festival