Michael Gordon
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Michael Gordon is an American composer known for his innovative, genre-blurring contemporary classical works and as a co-founder of the Bang on a Can collective.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Gordon canonical | 5 |
| Mike Gordon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8211898 — 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: Michael Gordon Context triple: [Bang on a Can All-Stars, collaboratedWith, Michael Gordon]
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A.
Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies and dramas, including the hit romantic comedy "Pillow Talk."
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B.
Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon is an individual associated with the Free School, likely as a participant or member involved in its educational or community activities.
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C.
Mike Gordon
Mike Gordon is an American bassist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the jam band Phish.
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D.
John Hoffman
John Hoffman is an American writer, producer, and director best known for co-creating the mystery-comedy television series "Only Murders in the Building."
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E.
Benjamin Melniker
Benjamin Melniker was an American film and television producer best known for his long-running role as an executive producer on numerous DC Comics adaptations, including the Batman and Constantine franchises.
- 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: Michael Gordon Target entity description: Michael Gordon is an American composer known for his innovative, genre-blurring contemporary classical works and as a co-founder of the Bang on a Can collective.
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A.
Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies and dramas, including the hit romantic comedy "Pillow Talk."
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B.
Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon is an individual associated with the Free School, likely as a participant or member involved in its educational or community activities.
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C.
Mike Gordon
Mike Gordon is an American bassist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the jam band Phish.
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D.
John Hoffman
John Hoffman is an American writer, producer, and director best known for co-creating the mystery-comedy television series "Only Murders in the Building."
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E.
Benjamin Melniker
Benjamin Melniker was an American film and television producer best known for his long-running role as an executive producer on numerous DC Comics adaptations, including the Batman and Constantine franchises.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American composer
ⓘ
composer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| alive | true ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Bang on a Can All-Stars ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Bang on a Can
ⓘ
linked to:
Bang on a Can All-Stars
|
| collaboratesWith |
David Lang
ⓘ
Julia Wolfe ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfBirth | 1956-07-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
composition
ⓘ
contemporary classical music ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary classical music
ⓘ
experimental music ⓘ minimalism ⓘ post-minimalism ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Jewish liturgical music
ⓘ
minimalism ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Bang on a Can
ⓘ
genre-blurring works ⓘ innovative contemporary classical compositions ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bang on a Can
ⓘ
linked to:
Bang on a Can All-Stars
|
| movement |
Bang on a Can school
ⓘ
linked to:
Bang on a Can Summer Festival
|
| name | Michael Gordon ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableWork |
Decasia
ⓘ
Gotham ⓘ Light Is Calling ⓘ Rushes ⓘ Timber ⓘ Trance ⓘ Van Gogh ⓘ
linked to:
van Gogh
Weather ⓘ Yo Shakespeare ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Miami Beach, Florida
ⓘ
linked to:
Miami Beach
|
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Julia Wolfe ⓘ |
| website | https://www.michael-gordon.com/ ⓘ |
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: Michael Gordon Description of subject: Michael Gordon is an American composer known for his innovative, genre-blurring contemporary classical works and as a co-founder of the Bang on a Can collective.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Michael Gordon