Foster the People
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Foster the People is an American indie pop band best known for their hit single "Pumped Up Kicks" and their blend of catchy melodies with alternative and electronic influences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Foster the People canonical | 5 |
| American band Foster the People | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5864154 — 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: Foster the People Context triple: [Paul Epworth, hasWorkedWith, Foster the People]
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A.
Young the Giant
Young the Giant is an American indie rock band known for melodic, anthemic songs like "Cough Syrup" and "My Body."
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B.
Wolf Parade
Wolf Parade is an indie rock band from Montreal, Canada, known for its energetic, keyboard-driven sound and critically acclaimed albums like "Apologies to the Queen Mary."
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C.
Bastille
The Bastille was a medieval fortress in Paris that became a notorious state prison and a powerful symbol of royal tyranny, whose storming in 1789 marked a key turning point in the French Revolution.
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D.
Francis & the Lights
Francis & the Lights is an American pop and R&B musical project led by musician Francis Farewell Starlite, known for its minimalist production and collaborations with artists like Bon Iver and Kanye West.
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E.
Eleven Park
Eleven Park is a planned mixed-use soccer stadium development in Indianapolis intended to serve as the future home of the Indy Eleven professional soccer club.
- 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: Foster the People Target entity description: Foster the People is an American indie pop band best known for their hit single "Pumped Up Kicks" and their blend of catchy melodies with alternative and electronic influences.
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A.
Young the Giant
Young the Giant is an American indie rock band known for melodic, anthemic songs like "Cough Syrup" and "My Body."
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B.
Wolf Parade
Wolf Parade is an indie rock band from Montreal, Canada, known for its energetic, keyboard-driven sound and critically acclaimed albums like "Apologies to the Queen Mary."
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C.
Bastille
The Bastille was a medieval fortress in Paris that became a notorious state prison and a powerful symbol of royal tyranny, whose storming in 1789 marked a key turning point in the French Revolution.
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D.
Francis & the Lights
Francis & the Lights is an American pop and R&B musical project led by musician Francis Farewell Starlite, known for its minimalist production and collaborations with artists like Bon Iver and Kanye West.
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E.
Eleven Park
Eleven Park is a planned mixed-use soccer stadium development in Indianapolis intended to serve as the future home of the Indy Eleven professional soccer club.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Foster the People Description of subject: Foster the People is an American indie pop band best known for their hit single "Pumped Up Kicks" and their blend of catchy melodies with alternative and electronic influences.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Foster the People