Ben Gibbard
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Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Gibbard canonical | 31 |
| Benjamin Gibbard | 2 |
| James Mercer | 2 |
| Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello | 1 |
| Benjamin Brock Gibbard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5741501 — 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: Ben Gibbard Context triple: [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film), starredActor, Ben Gibbard]
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A.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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B.
Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
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C.
Alex Ebert
Alex Ebert is an American singer-songwriter and composer best known as the frontman of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and for his work scoring films.
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D.
Win Butler
Win Butler is an American-Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and co-founder of the indie rock band Arcade Fire.
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E.
Nate Ruess
Nate Ruess is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band fun. and for his hit collaborations in pop music.
- 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: Ben Gibbard Target entity description: Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
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A.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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B.
Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
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C.
Alex Ebert
Alex Ebert is an American singer-songwriter and composer best known as the frontman of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and for his work scoring films.
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D.
Win Butler
Win Butler is an American-Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and co-founder of the indie rock band Arcade Fire.
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E.
Nate Ruess
Nate Ruess is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band fun. and for his hit collaborations in pop music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
All-Time Quarterback!
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Andrew Kenny ⓘ Death Cab for Cutie ⓘ Jay Farrar ⓘ Jenny Lewis ⓘ Pedro the Lion ⓘ Pinwheel ⓘ The Postal Service ⓘ ¡All-Time Quarterback! ⓘ
linked to:
All-Time Quarterback!
|
| birthName |
Benjamin Brock Gibbard
ⓘ
linked to:
Ben Gibbard
Benjamin Gibbard ⓘ
linked to:
Ben Gibbard
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1976-08-11 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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emo ⓘ indie pop ⓘ indie rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
lead vocalist and guitarist of Death Cab for Cutie
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vocalist and songwriter in The Postal Service ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 2012 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 2009 ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Death Cab for Cutie
ⓘ
The Postal Service ⓘ |
| name | Ben Gibbard ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Death Cab for Cutie
ⓘ
The Postal Service ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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guitarist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bremerton, Washington, United States
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linked to:
Bremerton
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| positionHeld |
guitarist of Death Cab for Cutie
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lead vocalist of Death Cab for Cutie ⓘ songwriter of Death Cab for Cutie ⓘ |
| residence | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| soloAlbum |
Bandwagonesque
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Former Lives ⓘ |
| spouse | Zooey Deschanel ⓘ |
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: Ben Gibbard Description of subject: Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
linked to: Ben Gibbard
linked to: Ben Gibbard
linked to: Ben Gibbard
subject linked to:
All Nerve (2018)
linked to: Ben Gibbard
linked to: Ben Gibbard
linked to: Ben Gibbard