Matt Berninger
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Matt Berninger is an American singer and songwriter best known as the baritone-voiced frontman and lyricist of the indie rock band The National.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Berninger canonical | 35 |
| Matthew Donald Berninger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786106 — 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: Matt Berninger Context triple: [The National, hasMember, Matt Berninger]
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A.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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B.
Marcus Mumford
Marcus Mumford is a British-American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of the folk-rock band Mumford & Sons.
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C.
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is an American indie folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his virtuosic violin playing, distinctive whistling, and literate, genre-blending compositions.
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D.
Cam Guthrie
Cam Guthrie is a Canadian politician best known as the long-serving mayor of the city of Guelph, Ontario.
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E.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Bonnie "Prince" Billy is the stage name of American singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, known for his introspective, genre-blurring folk and alt-country music.
- 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: Matt Berninger Target entity description: Matt Berninger is an American singer and songwriter best known as the baritone-voiced frontman and lyricist of the indie rock band The National.
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A.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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B.
Marcus Mumford
Marcus Mumford is a British-American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of the folk-rock band Mumford & Sons.
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C.
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is an American indie folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his virtuosic violin playing, distinctive whistling, and literate, genre-blending compositions.
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D.
Cam Guthrie
Cam Guthrie is a Canadian politician best known as the long-serving mayor of the city of Guelph, Ontario.
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E.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Bonnie "Prince" Billy is the stage name of American singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, known for his introspective, genre-blurring folk and alt-country music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Matt Berninger Description of subject: Matt Berninger is an American singer and songwriter best known as the baritone-voiced frontman and lyricist of the indie rock band The National.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Matthew Donald Berninger
subject surface form:
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