Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius is the stage name of American musician Mike Hadreas, known for his emotionally raw, genre-blending art pop that explores themes of queerness, vulnerability, and identity.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perfume Genius canonical | 27 |
| Mike Hadreas | 7 |
| Perfume Genius discography | 3 |
| close-up portrait of Perfume Genius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T306012 — 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: Perfume Genius Context triple: [Blake Mills, hasCollaboratedWith, Perfume Genius]
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A.
Bon Iver
Bon Iver is an American indie folk band led by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon, known for its ethereal sound, emotive falsetto vocals, and critically acclaimed albums like "For Emma, Forever Ago" and "Bon Iver, Bon Iver."
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B.
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American singer-songwriter and harpist known for her intricate compositions, poetic lyrics, and distinctive vocal style.
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C.
Maggie Rogers
Maggie Rogers is a fictional African American maid and central character in the television miniseries "Backstairs at the White House," which dramatizes the lives of White House domestic staff across several U.S. presidencies.
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D.
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple is an American singer-songwriter and pianist known for her emotionally intense lyrics, distinctive vocal style, and critically acclaimed albums such as "Tidal" and "When the Pawn..."
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E.
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and composer known for his lush, theatrical pop music and distinctive, operatic vocal style.
- 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: Perfume Genius Target entity description: Perfume Genius is the stage name of American musician Mike Hadreas, known for his emotionally raw, genre-blending art pop that explores themes of queerness, vulnerability, and identity.
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A.
Bon Iver
Bon Iver is an American indie folk band led by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon, known for its ethereal sound, emotive falsetto vocals, and critically acclaimed albums like "For Emma, Forever Ago" and "Bon Iver, Bon Iver."
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B.
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American singer-songwriter and harpist known for her intricate compositions, poetic lyrics, and distinctive vocal style.
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C.
Maggie Rogers
Maggie Rogers is a fictional African American maid and central character in the television miniseries "Backstairs at the White House," which dramatizes the lives of White House domestic staff across several U.S. presidencies.
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D.
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple is an American singer-songwriter and pianist known for her emotionally intense lyrics, distinctive vocal style, and critically acclaimed albums such as "Tidal" and "When the Pawn..."
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E.
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and composer known for his lush, theatrical pop music and distinctive, operatic vocal style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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human ⓘ musical artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ stage name ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2008 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Alan Wyffels
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Blake Mills ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Learning ⓘ |
| genre |
art pop
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avant-pop ⓘ baroque pop ⓘ chamber pop ⓘ experimental pop ⓘ indie pop ⓘ indie rock ⓘ queer pop ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Learning
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No Shape ⓘ Put Your Back N 2 It ⓘ Set My Heart on Fire Immediately ⓘ Too Bright ⓘ Ugly Season ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| performer |
Perfume Genius
self-linksurface differs
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Perfume Genius self-linksurface differs ⓘ Perfume Genius self-linksurface differs ⓘ Perfume Genius self-linksurface differs ⓘ Perfume Genius self-linksurface differs ⓘ Perfume Genius self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
2010
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2012 ⓘ 2014 ⓘ 2017 ⓘ 2020 ⓘ 2022 ⓘ |
| realName |
Perfume Genius
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mike Hadreas
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| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouseOrPartner | Alan Wyffels ⓘ |
| stageName | Perfume Genius self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| theme |
identity
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intimacy ⓘ queerness ⓘ sexuality ⓘ trauma ⓘ vulnerability ⓘ |
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: Perfume Genius Description of subject: Perfume Genius is the stage name of American musician Mike Hadreas, known for his emotionally raw, genre-blending art pop that explores themes of queerness, vulnerability, and identity.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mike Hadreas
subject surface form:
Mike Hadreas
subject surface form:
Learning
subject surface form:
Put Your Back N 2 It
subject surface form:
Too Bright
subject surface form:
No Shape
subject surface form:
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
subject surface form:
Ugly Season
this entity surface form:
Perfume Genius discography
this entity surface form:
close-up portrait of Perfume Genius
this entity surface form:
Perfume Genius discography
this entity surface form:
Mike Hadreas
this entity surface form:
Mike Hadreas
this entity surface form:
Mike Hadreas
this entity surface form:
Mike Hadreas