The Shins
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The Shins are an American indie rock band known for their melodic, introspective songs and influential role in the early 2000s indie music scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Shins canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6101748 — 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: The Shins Context triple: [Sub Pop, signed, The Shins]
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A.
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and lo-fi to folk-influenced sound.
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B.
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes is a 1934 American musical drama film starring child actress Shirley Temple, best known for featuring her signature song "On the Good Ship Lollipop."
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C.
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band known for its eclectic sound, introspective lyrics, and influential albums like "The Moon & Antarctica" and "Good News for People Who Love Bad News."
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D.
The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers are an American folk-rock band known for their heartfelt songwriting, close harmonies, and blending of bluegrass, country, and indie rock influences.
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E.
Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky is an American instrumental post-rock band known for its cinematic, guitar-driven soundscapes and emotionally charged compositions.
- 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: The Shins Target entity description: The Shins are an American indie rock band known for their melodic, introspective songs and influential role in the early 2000s indie music scene.
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A.
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and lo-fi to folk-influenced sound.
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B.
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes is a 1934 American musical drama film starring child actress Shirley Temple, best known for featuring her signature song "On the Good Ship Lollipop."
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C.
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band known for its eclectic sound, introspective lyrics, and influential albums like "The Moon & Antarctica" and "Good News for People Who Love Bad News."
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D.
The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers are an American folk-rock band known for their heartfelt songwriting, close harmonies, and blending of bluegrass, country, and indie rock influences.
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E.
Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky is an American instrumental post-rock band known for its cinematic, guitar-driven soundscapes and emotionally charged compositions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | indie rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1996 ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NERFINISHED
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Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formedIn | Albuquerque, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ indie pop ⓘ indie rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Casey Foubert
NERFINISHED
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Dave Hernandez NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ James Mercer NERFINISHED ⓘ Jesse Sandoval NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Plummer NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Sortland NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Watrous NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Crandall NERFINISHED ⓘ Marty Crandall NERFINISHED ⓘ Neal Langford NERFINISHED ⓘ Patti King NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Yuuki Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryMember | James Mercer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecordLabel |
Aural Apothecary
NERFINISHED
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Columbia Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Sub Pop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | recording artist ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.theshins.com/ ⓘ |
| influenced | indie rock scene of the early 2000s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | breakthrough via soundtrack appearance in the film Garden State ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Australia
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Caring Is Creepy NERFINISHED ⓘ Chutes Too Narrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Heartworms NERFINISHED ⓘ It’s Only Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Kissing the Lipless NERFINISHED ⓘ New Slang NERFINISHED ⓘ Oh, Inverted World NERFINISHED ⓘ Phantom Limb NERFINISHED ⓘ Port of Morrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Simple Song NERFINISHED ⓘ So Says I NERFINISHED ⓘ The Worm’s Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ Wincing the Night Away NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Shins Description of subject: The Shins are an American indie rock band known for their melodic, introspective songs and influential role in the early 2000s indie music scene.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.