Jason Molina
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Jason Molina was an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his work with the indie rock and slowcore projects Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., characterized by haunting vocals and emotionally intense, lyrically rich songs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jason Molina canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4807406 — 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: Jason Molina Context triple: [Like a Hurricane, hasCoverVersionBy, Jason Molina]
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A.
Ben Chasny
Ben Chasny is an American guitarist and songwriter known for his experimental, psychedelic folk work and influential presence in the underground music scene.
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B.
Alan Sparhawk
Alan Sparhawk is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the slowcore band Low, noted for his minimalist, atmospheric songwriting.
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C.
David Berman
David Berman was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and indie rock musician best known for founding and fronting the influential band Silver Jews.
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D.
Daniel Rossen
Daniel Rossen is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a member of the indie rock band Grizzly Bear and for his solo work.
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E.
Cam Guthrie
Cam Guthrie is a Canadian politician best known as the long-serving mayor of the city of Guelph, Ontario.
- 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: Jason Molina Target entity description: Jason Molina was an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his work with the indie rock and slowcore projects Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., characterized by haunting vocals and emotionally intense, lyrically rich songs.
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A.
Ben Chasny
Ben Chasny is an American guitarist and songwriter known for his experimental, psychedelic folk work and influential presence in the underground music scene.
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B.
Alan Sparhawk
Alan Sparhawk is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the slowcore band Low, noted for his minimalist, atmospheric songwriting.
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C.
David Berman
David Berman was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and indie rock musician best known for founding and fronting the influential band Silver Jews.
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D.
Daniel Rossen
Daniel Rossen is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as a member of the indie rock band Grizzly Bear and for his solo work.
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E.
Cam Guthrie
Cam Guthrie is a Canadian politician best known as the long-serving mayor of the city of Guelph, Ontario.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2013 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Magnolia Electric Co.
NERFINISHED
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My Morning Jacket NERFINISHED ⓘ Scout Niblett NERFINISHED ⓘ Songs: Ohia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lorain, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
alcohol-related illness
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organ failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1973-12-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-03-16 ⓘ |
| familyName | Molina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alt-country
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folk rock ⓘ indie rock ⓘ slowcore ⓘ |
| givenName | Jason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDiscographySection |
Magnolia Electric Co. discography
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Songs: Ohia discography ⓘ |
| instrument |
banjo
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Magnolia Electric Co.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Songs: Ohia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
despair
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loneliness ⓘ nature imagery ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Magnolia Electric Co.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Songs: Ohia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jason Molina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Didn’t It Rain (album)
NERFINISHED
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Songs: Ohia (self-titled album) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Magnolia Electric Co. (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lorain, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Secretly Canadian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
emotionally intense lyrics
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haunting vocals ⓘ |
| vocalType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Jason Molina Description of subject: Jason Molina was an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his work with the indie rock and slowcore projects Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., characterized by haunting vocals and emotionally intense, lyrically rich songs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.