Volcano Choir
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Volcano Choir is an experimental indie rock band featuring Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, known for its atmospheric, layered soundscapes and abstract songwriting.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Volcano Choir canonical | 24 |
| Volcano Choir (EP) | 1 |
| Volcano Choir discography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T523474 — 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: Volcano Choir Context triple: [Bon Iver, associatedAct, Volcano Choir]
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A.
Milwaukee Deep
Milwaukee Deep is the deepest known point in the Atlantic Ocean, located within the Puerto Rico Trench.
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B.
Blind Melon
Blind Melon is an American alternative rock band best known for their early 1990s hit "No Rain" and their distinctive blend of psychedelic and folk-influenced rock.
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C.
Against the Day
Against the Day is a sprawling, genre-blending historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, weaving together adventure, science, politics, and metaphysical speculation.
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D.
Chief Weasel
Chief Weasel is a villainous, scheming weasel who leads a gang of stoats and weasels in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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E.
the Sirens
The Sirens are mythical creatures from Greek mythology whose irresistibly beautiful song lures sailors to their doom.
- 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: Volcano Choir Target entity description: Volcano Choir is an experimental indie rock band featuring Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, known for its atmospheric, layered soundscapes and abstract songwriting.
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A.
Milwaukee Deep
Milwaukee Deep is the deepest known point in the Atlantic Ocean, located within the Puerto Rico Trench.
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B.
Blind Melon
Blind Melon is an American alternative rock band best known for their early 1990s hit "No Rain" and their distinctive blend of psychedelic and folk-influenced rock.
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C.
Against the Day
Against the Day is a sprawling, genre-blending historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, weaving together adventure, science, politics, and metaphysical speculation.
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D.
Chief Weasel
Chief Weasel is a villainous, scheming weasel who leads a gang of stoats and weasels in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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E.
the Sirens
The Sirens are mythical creatures from Greek mythology whose irresistibly beautiful song lures sailors to their doom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
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experimental rock band ⓘ indie rock band ⓘ musical group ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| album |
Repave
ⓘ
Unmap ⓘ |
| associatedBand |
Bon Iver
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Collections of Colonies of Bees ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Unmap ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient
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experimental rock ⓘ folktronica ⓘ indie rock ⓘ post-rock ⓘ |
| hasGenreCharacteristic |
electronic processing
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minimalist percussion ⓘ textural guitar work ⓘ use of falsetto vocals ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Chris Rosenau
ⓘ
Daniel Spack ⓘ Jon Mueller ⓘ Justin Vernon ⓘ Matthew Skemp ⓘ Thomas Wincek ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember | Justin Vernon ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence |
Bandcamp page
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Spotify artist page ⓘ official website ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
abstract songwriting
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atmospheric soundscapes ⓘ layered arrangements ⓘ |
| notableWork | Bon Iver ⓘ |
| origin |
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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Wisconsin ⓘ |
| performer |
Volcano Choir
self-linksurface differs
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Volcano Choir self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
2009
ⓘ
2013 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Jagjaguwar
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Jagjaguwar ⓘ Jagjaguwar ⓘ |
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: Volcano Choir Description of subject: Volcano Choir is an experimental indie rock band featuring Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, known for its atmospheric, layered soundscapes and abstract songwriting.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Unmap
subject surface form:
Repave