Jason Newsted
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Jason Newsted is an American bassist best known for his tenure with the heavy metal band Metallica from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jason Newsted canonical | 19 |
| Jason Curtis Newsted | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5783944 — 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: Jason Newsted Context triple: [Metallica, formerMember, Jason Newsted]
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A.
Kirk Hammett
Kirk Hammett is the lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Metallica, renowned for his influential solos and role in shaping the band's signature sound.
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B.
Dave Mustaine
Dave Mustaine is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as the founder and frontman of the thrash metal band Megadeth.
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C.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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D.
Billy Costigan
Billy Costigan is the undercover Massachusetts State Police officer infiltrating the Irish mob in Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller film "The Departed."
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E.
James Hetfield
James Hetfield is an American musician best known as the co-founder, lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of the heavy metal band Metallica.
- 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: Jason Newsted Target entity description: Jason Newsted is an American bassist best known for his tenure with the heavy metal band Metallica from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
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A.
Kirk Hammett
Kirk Hammett is the lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Metallica, renowned for his influential solos and role in shaping the band's signature sound.
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B.
Dave Mustaine
Dave Mustaine is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as the founder and frontman of the thrash metal band Megadeth.
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C.
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is an American space artist and science communicator best known for his close collaboration with Carl Sagan and his major role in designing the visual and artistic elements of NASA’s interstellar messages, including the Voyager Golden Record.
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D.
Billy Costigan
Billy Costigan is the undercover Massachusetts State Police officer infiltrating the Irish mob in Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller film "The Departed."
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E.
James Hetfield
James Hetfield is an American musician best known as the co-founder, lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of the heavy metal band Metallica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Jason Newsted Description of subject: Jason Newsted is an American bassist best known for his tenure with the heavy metal band Metallica from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
American Bad Ass (as Kid Rock’s backing band)
subject linked to:
Jason Newsted replaced Cliff Burton
linked to: Jason Newsted
subject linked to:
Robert Trujillo replaced Jason Newsted
subject linked to:
Metallica – Turn the Page
subject linked to:
Metallica – Turn the Page