Michael Been
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Michael Been was an American singer, songwriter, and bassist best known as the frontman of the rock band The Call and for his work on film soundtracks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Been canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22767940 — 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 Been Context triple: [Light Sleeper, musicBy, Michael Been]
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A.
Kerry Livgren
Kerry Livgren is an American guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter best known as a founding member and primary composer for the rock band Kansas.
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B.
Bryan Rich
Bryan Rich is a musician known for contributing to the indie folk album "Viva Last Blues" by Palace Music (Will Oldham).
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C.
Eric Lofgren
Eric Lofgren is an epidemiologist known for using World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood incident as a model to study the spread of infectious diseases and human behavior during epidemics.
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D.
Mike Reno
Mike Reno is a Canadian rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the band Loverboy and for his prominent contributions to 1980s rock and soundtrack hits.
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E.
Brian Baker
Brian Baker is an American guitarist best known as a longtime member of the punk rock band Bad Religion and a founding member of Minor Threat.
- 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 Been Target entity description: Michael Been was an American singer, songwriter, and bassist best known as the frontman of the rock band The Call and for his work on film soundtracks.
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A.
Kerry Livgren
Kerry Livgren is an American guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter best known as a founding member and primary composer for the rock band Kansas.
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B.
Bryan Rich
Bryan Rich is a musician known for contributing to the indie folk album "Viva Last Blues" by Palace Music (Will Oldham).
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C.
Eric Lofgren
Eric Lofgren is an epidemiologist known for using World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood incident as a model to study the spread of infectious diseases and human behavior during epidemics.
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D.
Mike Reno
Mike Reno is a Canadian rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the band Loverboy and for his prominent contributions to 1980s rock and soundtrack hits.
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E.
Brian Baker
Brian Baker is an American guitarist best known as a longtime member of the punk rock band Bad Religion and a founding member of Minor Threat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.