Hole
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Hole is an American alternative rock band formed in 1989 by singer-guitarist Courtney Love, known for its raw, aggressive sound and influential role in the 1990s grunge and punk scenes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hole canonical | 62 |
| Hole – "Live Through This" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T775561 — 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: Hole Context triple: [Geffen Records, signedArtist, Hole]
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A.
Pixies
Pixies are an influential American alternative rock band formed in the late 1980s, known for their loud-quiet-loud dynamics, surreal lyrics, and major impact on the grunge and indie rock movements.
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B.
Nirvana
Nirvana was a highly influential American grunge band from the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for popularizing alternative rock worldwide with hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
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C.
Blind Melon
Blind Melon is an American alternative rock band best known for their early 1990s hit "No Rain" and their distinctive blend of psychedelic and folk-influenced rock.
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D.
Weezer
Weezer is an American rock band known for its catchy power-pop sound, self-titled “Blue Album,” and influential role in 1990s alternative rock.
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E.
Gang of Four
The Gang of Four was a powerful political faction in China, led by Jiang Qing and three close allies, that played a key role in the Cultural Revolution and was later blamed for its excesses.
- 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: Hole Target entity description: Hole is an American alternative rock band formed in 1989 by singer-guitarist Courtney Love, known for its raw, aggressive sound and influential role in the 1990s grunge and punk scenes.
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A.
Pixies
Pixies are an influential American alternative rock band formed in the late 1980s, known for their loud-quiet-loud dynamics, surreal lyrics, and major impact on the grunge and indie rock movements.
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B.
Nirvana
Nirvana was a highly influential American grunge band from the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for popularizing alternative rock worldwide with hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
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C.
Blind Melon
Blind Melon is an American alternative rock band best known for their early 1990s hit "No Rain" and their distinctive blend of psychedelic and folk-influenced rock.
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D.
Weezer
Weezer is an American rock band known for its catchy power-pop sound, self-titled “Blue Album,” and influential role in 1990s alternative rock.
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E.
Gang of Four
The Gang of Four was a powerful political faction in China, led by Jiang Qing and three close allies, that played a key role in the Cultural Revolution and was later blamed for its excesses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: Hole Description of subject: Hole is an American alternative rock band formed in 1989 by singer-guitarist Courtney Love, known for its raw, aggressive sound and influential role in the 1990s grunge and punk scenes.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sugar Babydoll
subject linked to:
Live Through This widely acclaimed by music critics
subject linked to:
Live Through This widely acclaimed by music critics