John Stirratt
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John Stirratt is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a longtime member of the alternative rock band Wilco.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Stirratt canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9429248 — 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: John Stirratt Context triple: [Wilco, hasMember, John Stirratt]
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A.
Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of The Box Tops and the influential power pop band Big Star.
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B.
Marvin Barnes
Marvin Barnes was an American professional basketball player known for his dominant scoring and rebounding in the ABA during the 1970s and his colorful, tumultuous off-court life.
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C.
Alan Sparhawk
Alan Sparhawk is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the slowcore band Low, noted for his minimalist, atmospheric songwriting.
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D.
Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Sonic Youth.
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E.
Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman and primary songwriter of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements.
- 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: John Stirratt Target entity description: John Stirratt is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a longtime member of the alternative rock band Wilco.
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A.
Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of The Box Tops and the influential power pop band Big Star.
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B.
Marvin Barnes
Marvin Barnes was an American professional basketball player known for his dominant scoring and rebounding in the ABA during the 1970s and his colorful, tumultuous off-court life.
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C.
Alan Sparhawk
Alan Sparhawk is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the slowcore band Low, noted for his minimalist, atmospheric songwriting.
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D.
Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Sonic Youth.
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E.
Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman and primary songwriter of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Glenn Kotche
ⓘ
Jay Farrar ⓘ Jeff Tweedy ⓘ Mikael Jorgensen ⓘ Nels Cline ⓘ Pat Sansone ⓘ |
| associatedBand |
The Autumn Defense
ⓘ
Uncle Tupelo ⓘ Wilco ⓘ |
| bestKnownAs | longtime member of Wilco ⓘ |
| coFounded | The Autumn Defense ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Stirratt ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
recording and performing arts
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative country
ⓘ
alternative rock ⓘ indie rock ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| memberOf | Wilco ⓘ |
| name | John Stirratt ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Ghost Is Born (album)
ⓘ
linked to:
A Ghost Is Born
Being There (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Being There
Cruel Country (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Cruel Country
Ode to Joy (Wilco album) ⓘ Schmilco (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Schmilco
Sky Blue Sky (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Sky Blue Sky
Star Wars (Wilco album) ⓘ Summerteeth (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Summerteeth
The Whole Love (album) ⓘ
linked to:
The Whole Love
Wilco (The Album) ⓘ Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
|
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | Wilco lineup since band’s early years ⓘ |
| playsInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
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: John Stirratt Description of subject: John Stirratt is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a longtime member of the alternative rock band Wilco.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.