David Pajo
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David Pajo is an American guitarist and songwriter best known for his influential work in the pioneering post-rock band Slint and for his diverse solo and collaborative projects across indie and experimental music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Pajo canonical | 14 |
| Dave Pajo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4246947 — 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: David Pajo Context triple: [Slint, hasMember, David Pajo]
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A.
Robby Mook
Robby Mook is an American political strategist best known for serving as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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B.
Daryl Sabara
Daryl Sabara is an American actor best known for playing Juni Cortez in the Spy Kids film series.
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C.
Michael Wilford
Michael Wilford was a British architect known for his postmodern designs and for continuing the work of James Stirling on prominent cultural and public buildings.
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D.
Erik von Detten
Erik von Detten is an American actor best known for his work in popular 1990s and 2000s films and television series, including notable voice roles in animated features.
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E.
David Sancious
David Sancious is an American keyboardist and guitarist best known as an original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his work as a versatile session and solo artist.
- 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: David Pajo Target entity description: David Pajo is an American guitarist and songwriter best known for his influential work in the pioneering post-rock band Slint and for his diverse solo and collaborative projects across indie and experimental music.
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A.
Robby Mook
Robby Mook is an American political strategist best known for serving as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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B.
Daryl Sabara
Daryl Sabara is an American actor best known for playing Juni Cortez in the Spy Kids film series.
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C.
Michael Wilford
Michael Wilford was a British architect known for his postmodern designs and for continuing the work of James Stirling on prominent cultural and public buildings.
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D.
Erik von Detten
Erik von Detten is an American actor best known for his work in popular 1990s and 2000s films and television series, including notable voice roles in animated features.
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E.
David Sancious
David Sancious is an American keyboardist and guitarist best known as an original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his work as a versatile session and solo artist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedBand |
Aerial M
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Bonnie "Prince" Billy ⓘ Interpol ⓘ Pajo ⓘ Papa M ⓘ Royal Trux ⓘ Slint ⓘ Stereolab ⓘ The For Carnation ⓘ Tortoise ⓘ Will Oldham ⓘ Yeah Yeah Yeahs ⓘ Zwan ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1968-06-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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linked to:
Louisville, Kentucky
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| familyName | Pajo ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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experimental rock ⓘ indie rock ⓘ post-rock ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| influentialFor | post-rock genre ⓘ |
| instrument |
acoustic guitar
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bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Slint
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The For Carnation ⓘ Tortoise ⓘ Zwan ⓘ |
| name | David Pajo ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | Spiderland ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| roleInBand |
guitarist in Slint
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guitarist in Tortoise ⓘ guitarist in Zwan ⓘ touring guitarist for Interpol ⓘ touring guitarist for Yeah Yeah Yeahs ⓘ |
| stageName |
Aerial M
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Pajo ⓘ Papa M ⓘ |
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: David Pajo Description of subject: David Pajo is an American guitarist and songwriter best known for his influential work in the pioneering post-rock band Slint and for his diverse solo and collaborative projects across indie and experimental music.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Pajo