Michael Ivins
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Michael Ivins is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist and founding member of the alternative rock band The Flaming Lips.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Ivins canonical | 28 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13028060 — 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: Michael Ivins Context triple: [The Flaming Lips, hasMember, Michael Ivins]
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A.
Michael Pierson
Michael Pierson is the son of acclaimed American screenwriter and director Frank Pierson.
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B.
Michael Healey
Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor best known for his acclaimed play "The Drawer Boy" and his contributions to contemporary Canadian theatre.
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C.
Michael Dorman
Michael Dorman is an Australian actor known for his roles in television series such as "For All Mankind," "Patriot," and "The Secret Life of Us."
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D.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
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E.
Michael Barratt
Michael Barratt is a Welsh rock and roll singer best known by his stage name Shakin' Stevens, who became one of the UK's most successful chart acts in the 1980s.
- 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: Michael Ivins Target entity description: Michael Ivins is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist and founding member of the alternative rock band The Flaming Lips.
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A.
Michael Pierson
Michael Pierson is the son of acclaimed American screenwriter and director Frank Pierson.
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B.
Michael Healey
Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor best known for his acclaimed play "The Drawer Boy" and his contributions to contemporary Canadian theatre.
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C.
Michael Dorman
Michael Dorman is an Australian actor known for his roles in television series such as "For All Mankind," "Patriot," and "The Secret Life of Us."
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D.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
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E.
Michael Barratt
Michael Barratt is a Welsh rock and roll singer best known by his stage name Shakin' Stevens, who became one of the UK's most successful chart acts in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Flaming Lips ⓘ |
| basedIn | Oklahoma City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
recording and production
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rock music ⓘ |
| foundingMemberOf | The Flaming Lips ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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experimental rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Flaming Lips ⓘ |
| notableFor | being longtime bassist of The Flaming Lips ⓘ |
| notableWork |
At War with the Mystics
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Clouds Taste Metallic ⓘ Hit to Death in the Future Head ⓘ In a Priest Driven Ambulance ⓘ Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips ⓘ Telepathic Surgery ⓘ The Soft Bulletin ⓘ Transmissions from the Satellite Heart ⓘ Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| partOf | Oklahoma City music scene ⓘ |
| startTimeInBand | 1983 ⓘ |
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: Michael Ivins Description of subject: Michael Ivins is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist and founding member of the alternative rock band The Flaming Lips.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.