Matt Freeman
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Matt Freeman is an American bassist and vocalist best known as a founding member of the punk rock band Rancid.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Freeman canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5255360 — 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 Freeman Context triple: [Rancid, hasMember, Matt Freeman]
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A.
Sean Freeman
Sean Freeman is a contemporary graphic artist and illustrator known for his distinctive, atmospheric typography and cover art for books and other media.
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B.
Russ Freeman
Russ Freeman was an American jazz pianist and composer best known for his influential collaborations with trumpeter Chet Baker in the 1950s West Coast jazz scene.
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C.
Buck Freeman
Buck Freeman was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball slugger known for his power hitting and leading the league in home runs and RBIs.
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D.
Brian Fresco
Brian Fresco is a Chicago-based rapper known as a member of the SaveMoney collective alongside artists like Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa.
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E.
Steve Freeling
Steve Freeling is the suburban father and central protagonist in the horror film "Poltergeist," whose family is terrorized by malevolent supernatural forces in their home.
- 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 Freeman Target entity description: Matt Freeman is an American bassist and vocalist best known as a founding member of the punk rock band Rancid.
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A.
Sean Freeman
Sean Freeman is a contemporary graphic artist and illustrator known for his distinctive, atmospheric typography and cover art for books and other media.
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B.
Russ Freeman
Russ Freeman was an American jazz pianist and composer best known for his influential collaborations with trumpeter Chet Baker in the 1950s West Coast jazz scene.
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C.
Buck Freeman
Buck Freeman was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball slugger known for his power hitting and leading the league in home runs and RBIs.
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D.
Brian Fresco
Brian Fresco is a Chicago-based rapper known as a member of the SaveMoney collective alongside artists like Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa.
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E.
Steve Freeling
Steve Freeling is the suburban father and central protagonist in the horror film "Poltergeist," whose family is terrorized by malevolent supernatural forces in their home.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Devil's Brigade
ⓘ
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards ⓘ Operation Ivy ⓘ Rancid ⓘ Social Distortion ⓘ The Bastards ⓘ The Transplants ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Freeman ⓘ |
| genre |
hardcore punk
ⓘ
punk rock ⓘ ska punk ⓘ |
| givenName | Matt ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | founding of Rancid ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Rancid ⓘ |
| name | Matt Freeman ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to 1990s punk rock revival
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fast and melodic bass playing style ⓘ |
| notableRole | founding member of Rancid ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Rancid (band)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rancid
|
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| partOf | American punk rock scene ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
backing vocalist of Rancid
ⓘ
bassist of Rancid ⓘ |
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 Freeman Description of subject: Matt Freeman is an American bassist and vocalist best known as a founding member of the punk rock band Rancid.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.