Scott Devendorf
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Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott Devendorf canonical | 21 |
| Bryan Devendorf | 1 |
| Scott Devendorf of The National | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786109 — 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: Scott Devendorf Context triple: [The National, hasMember, Scott Devendorf]
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A.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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B.
Scott Kroopf
Scott Kroopf is an American film producer known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including the science-fiction adventure film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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C.
Scott Sundquist
Scott Sundquist is an American drummer best known for being an early member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden before their rise to mainstream fame.
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D.
Paul Devorski
Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
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E.
Chris Bilheimer
Chris Bilheimer is an American graphic designer best known for creating album artwork for bands such as Green Day and R.E.M.
- 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: Scott Devendorf Target entity description: Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
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A.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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B.
Scott Kroopf
Scott Kroopf is an American film producer known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including the science-fiction adventure film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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C.
Scott Sundquist
Scott Sundquist is an American drummer best known for being an early member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden before their rise to mainstream fame.
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D.
Paul Devorski
Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
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E.
Chris Bilheimer
Chris Bilheimer is an American graphic designer best known for creating album artwork for bands such as Green Day and R.E.M.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ recording artist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
LNZNDRF
ⓘ
The National ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
The National live performances
ⓘ
The National studio recordings ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ |
| hasRelativeInBand | Bryan Devendorf ⓘ |
| hasRole |
recording musician
ⓘ
touring musician ⓘ |
| isFoundingMemberOf | The National ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The National ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a founding member of The National ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alligator (2005)
ⓘ
surface form:
Alligator (album)
Boxer (album) ⓘ First Two Pages of Frankenstein ⓘ
surface form:
First Two Pages of Frankenstein (album)
High Violet ⓘ
surface form:
High Violet (album)
I Am Easy to Find ⓘ
surface form:
I Am Easy to Find (album)
Sleep Well Beast (2017) ⓘ
surface form:
Sleep Well Beast (album)
Trouble Will Find Me ⓘ
surface form:
Trouble Will Find Me (album)
|
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| partOf | American indie rock scene ⓘ |
| playsInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| positionInBand |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
bass guitarist ⓘ |
| sibling | Bryan Devendorf ⓘ |
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: Scott Devendorf Description of subject: Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bryan Devendorf
subject surface form:
Boxer
this entity surface form:
Scott Devendorf of The National
subject surface form:
Bryan Devendorf