Cold War Kids
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Cold War Kids is an American indie rock band known for its soulful vocals, blues-influenced sound, and emotionally charged songs like "Hang Me Up to Dry."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cold War Kids canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7293169 — 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: Cold War Kids Context triple: [Downtown Records, hasArtist, Cold War Kids]
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A.
The Get Up Kids
The Get Up Kids are an American rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, widely regarded as influential pioneers of the late-1990s and early-2000s emo and indie rock scenes.
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B.
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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C.
The Menzingers
The Menzingers are an American punk rock band known for their melodic, emotionally charged songs and storytelling lyrics.
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D.
The Dismemberment Plan
The Dismemberment Plan is an American indie rock band from Washington, D.C., known for its inventive, genre-blending sound and influential late-1990s and early-2000s albums.
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E.
The Front Bottoms
The Front Bottoms are an American indie rock band known for their conversational lyrics, energetic live shows, and blend of folk-punk and emo influences.
- 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: Cold War Kids Target entity description: Cold War Kids is an American indie rock band known for its soulful vocals, blues-influenced sound, and emotionally charged songs like "Hang Me Up to Dry."
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A.
The Get Up Kids
The Get Up Kids are an American rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, widely regarded as influential pioneers of the late-1990s and early-2000s emo and indie rock scenes.
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B.
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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C.
The Menzingers
The Menzingers are an American punk rock band known for their melodic, emotionally charged songs and storytelling lyrics.
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D.
The Dismemberment Plan
The Dismemberment Plan is an American indie rock band from Washington, D.C., known for its inventive, genre-blending sound and influential late-1990s and early-2000s albums.
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E.
The Front Bottoms
The Front Bottoms are an American indie rock band known for their conversational lyrics, energetic live shows, and blend of folk-punk and emo influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | indie rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2004 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Modest Mouse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Lumineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassist | Matt Maust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Robbers & Cowards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedIn | 2004 ⓘ |
| formerMember |
Dann Gallucci
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Lamoureux NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonnie Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Aveiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ soul-influenced rock ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
All This Could Be Yours
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Audience ⓘ First ⓘ Hang Me Up to Dry NERFINISHED ⓘ Hospital Beds NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Is Mystical NERFINISHED ⓘ Miracle Mile NERFINISHED ⓘ So Tied Up NERFINISHED ⓘ Something Is Not Right with Me NERFINISHED ⓘ We Used to Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
blues-influenced sound
ⓘ
emotionally charged lyrics ⓘ soulful vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| member |
David Quon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Plummer NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Maust NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew Schwartz NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathan Willett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Long Beach, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
ⓘ
Downtown Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Music Group ⓘ V2 Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| release |
Cold War Kids (self-titled album)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts NERFINISHED ⓘ Hold My Home NERFINISHED ⓘ L.A. Divine NERFINISHED ⓘ Loyalty to Loyalty NERFINISHED ⓘ Mine Is Yours NERFINISHED ⓘ New Age Norms 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ New Age Norms 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ New Age Norms 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Robbers & Cowards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Nathan Willett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cold War Kids Description of subject: Cold War Kids is an American indie rock band known for its soulful vocals, blues-influenced sound, and emotionally charged songs like "Hang Me Up to Dry."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.