Ira Kaplan
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Ira Kaplan is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Yo La Tengo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ira Kaplan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5288705 — 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: Ira Kaplan Context triple: [Standing in the Spotlight, hasPersonnel, Ira Kaplan]
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A.
David Byrne
David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician, singer, songwriter, and artist best known as the frontman and co-founder of the influential new wave band Talking Heads.
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B.
Greg Morrisett
Greg Morrisett is a computer scientist known for his work on programming languages and type systems, particularly in the design of safe and secure systems.
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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.
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, and producer best known for his innovative work in pop and rock music, including his collaborations with artists like Brian Wilson and Joanna Newsom.
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E.
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus is an American indie rock musician best known as the frontman of Pavement and a key figure in the 1990s lo-fi movement.
- 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: Ira Kaplan Target entity description: Ira Kaplan is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Yo La Tengo.
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A.
David Byrne
David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician, singer, songwriter, and artist best known as the frontman and co-founder of the influential new wave band Talking Heads.
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B.
Greg Morrisett
Greg Morrisett is a computer scientist known for his work on programming languages and type systems, particularly in the design of safe and secure systems.
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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.
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, and producer best known for his innovative work in pop and rock music, including his collaborations with artists like Brian Wilson and Joanna Newsom.
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E.
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus is an American indie rock musician best known as the frontman of Pavement and a key figure in the 1990s lo-fi movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Yo La Tengo ⓘ |
| associatedGenre |
experimental rock
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indie pop ⓘ noise pop ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Hoboken, New Jersey
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linked to:
Hoboken
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| coFounded | Yo La Tengo ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork |
guitar performance
ⓘ
songwriting ⓘ vocal performance ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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indie rock ⓘ |
| hasBandmate |
Georgia Hubley
ⓘ
James McNew ⓘ |
| hasCreativePartner | Georgia Hubley ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yo La Tengo ⓘ |
| name | Ira Kaplan ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding member of Yo La Tengo ⓘ |
| notableRole | frontman of Yo La Tengo ⓘ |
| notableWork | recordings with Yo La Tengo ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| partOf | American indie rock scene ⓘ |
| positionInBand |
guitarist of Yo La Tengo
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songwriter of Yo La Tengo ⓘ vocalist of Yo La Tengo ⓘ |
| spouse | Georgia Hubley ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New Jersey
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linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
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: Ira Kaplan Description of subject: Ira Kaplan is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Yo La Tengo.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.