Mike Viola
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Mike Viola is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer known for his work on power pop and rock projects, including film soundtracks and albums by various acclaimed artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Viola canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8696372 — 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 Viola Context triple: [The Voyager, producer, Mike Viola]
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A.
Frank Viola
Frank Viola is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher best known for his dominant years with the Minnesota Twins, including helping them win the 1987 World Series and earning recognition as one of the top pitchers of his era.
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B.
Michael Gaeta
Michael Gaeta is a film producer best known for his work on genre movies, including the 2011 remake of the horror-comedy "Fright Night."
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C.
Eric Meola
Eric Meola is an American photographer best known for his iconic images of Bruce Springsteen and other cultural figures, as well as his vivid, color-saturated landscape and travel photography.
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D.
Chris Sullo
Chris Sullo is a security researcher and developer best known as the creator of the Nikto web server vulnerability scanner.
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E.
Mike Glyer
Mike Glyer is a prominent science fiction fan writer, editor, and fan historian best known for his long-running fanzine "File 770" and multiple Hugo Awards.
- 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 Viola Target entity description: Mike Viola is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer known for his work on power pop and rock projects, including film soundtracks and albums by various acclaimed artists.
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A.
Frank Viola
Frank Viola is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher best known for his dominant years with the Minnesota Twins, including helping them win the 1987 World Series and earning recognition as one of the top pitchers of his era.
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B.
Michael Gaeta
Michael Gaeta is a film producer best known for his work on genre movies, including the 2011 remake of the horror-comedy "Fright Night."
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C.
Eric Meola
Eric Meola is an American photographer best known for his iconic images of Bruce Springsteen and other cultural figures, as well as his vivid, color-saturated landscape and travel photography.
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D.
Chris Sullo
Chris Sullo is a security researcher and developer best known as the creator of the Nikto web server vulnerability scanner.
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E.
Mike Glyer
Mike Glyer is a prominent science fiction fan writer, editor, and fan historian best known for his long-running fanzine "File 770" and multiple Hugo Awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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record production ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
indie rock
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pop rock ⓘ power pop ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
film soundtrack That Thing You Do!
NERFINISHED
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film soundtrack Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
Aimee Mann
NERFINISHED
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Andrew Bird NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Fall Out Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Jenny Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Jill Sobule NERFINISHED ⓘ Loudon Wainwright III NERFINISHED ⓘ Mandy Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachael Yamagata NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ The Monkees NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Christensen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Candy Butchers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album Hang On Mike
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album Just Before Dark ⓘ album Lurch ⓘ album The Acoustic Storytime ⓘ album The American Egypt ⓘ music for the film That Thing You Do! ⓘ music for the film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⓘ production and songwriting for Jenny Lewis album The Voyager ⓘ song writing and production for Fall Out Boy album Save Rock and Roll ⓘ |
| occupation |
audio engineer
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composer ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| role |
lead singer of Candy Butchers
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songwriter for Candy Butchers ⓘ |
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 Viola Description of subject: Mike Viola is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer known for his work on power pop and rock projects, including film soundtracks and albums by various acclaimed artists.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.