Mike Gordon
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Mike Gordon is an American bassist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the jam band Phish.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Gordon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5921131 — 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: Mike Gordon Context triple: [Phish, hasPart, Mike Gordon]
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A.
Jeff Ament
Jeff Ament is an American bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Pearl Jam and for his earlier work in the Seattle grunge scene.
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B.
Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Sonic Youth.
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C.
Matt Cameron
Matt Cameron is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the bands Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.
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D.
David Grubbs
David Grubbs is an American musician and composer known for his influential work in experimental rock and post-rock, particularly through projects like Gastr del Sol.
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E.
Matt Chamberlain
Matt Chamberlain is an American session and touring drummer renowned for his work with numerous prominent rock and pop artists and his brief early stint with Pearl Jam.
- 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: Mike Gordon Target entity description: Mike Gordon is an American bassist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the jam band Phish.
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A.
Jeff Ament
Jeff Ament is an American bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Pearl Jam and for his earlier work in the Seattle grunge scene.
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B.
Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Sonic Youth.
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C.
Matt Cameron
Matt Cameron is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the bands Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.
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D.
David Grubbs
David Grubbs is an American musician and composer known for his influential work in experimental rock and post-rock, particularly through projects like Gastr del Sol.
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E.
Matt Chamberlain
Matt Chamberlain is an American session and touring drummer renowned for his work with numerous prominent rock and pop artists and his brief early stint with Pearl Jam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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bassist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1983 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Grateful Dead members
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Leo Kottke NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Gordon Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1965-06-03 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| education | University of Vermont (attended) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
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jam band ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://mike-gordon.com/ ⓘ |
| instrument |
banjo
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bass guitar ⓘ guitar ⓘ piano ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding member of Phish
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improvisational bass playing ⓘ songwriting contributions to Phish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Phish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Mike Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | duo albums with Leo Kottke ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Phish album "A Picture of Nectar"
NERFINISHED
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Phish album "Big Boat" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "Billy Breathes" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "Farmhouse" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "Fuego" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "Hoist" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "Joy" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "Junta" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "Rift" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "Round Room" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "The Story of the Ghost" NERFINISHED ⓘ Phish album "Undermind" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Inside In" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Moss" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "OGOGO" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "Overstep" NERFINISHED ⓘ solo album "The Green Sparrow" ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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filmmaker ⓘ photographer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ vocalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | bassist of Phish ⓘ |
| vocalRole |
backing vocals in Phish
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lead vocals on selected Phish songs ⓘ |
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: Mike Gordon Description of subject: Mike Gordon is an American bassist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the jam band Phish.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.