Future Islands
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Future Islands is an American synth-pop band known for their emotive vocals, energetic live performances, and breakthrough success with the song "Seasons (Waiting on You)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Future Islands canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10008603 — 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: Future Islands Context triple: [4AD, notableArtist, Future Islands]
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A.
Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky is an American instrumental post-rock band known for its cinematic, guitar-driven soundscapes and emotionally charged compositions.
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B.
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band known for its grand, orchestral sound, emotionally charged lyrics, and critically acclaimed albums like "Funeral" and "The Suburbs."
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C.
Broken Bells
Broken Bells is an American indie rock band and musical project formed by producer Danger Mouse and The Shins' frontman James Mercer, known for its atmospheric, melodic sound.
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D.
Of Monsters and Men
Of Monsters and Men is an Icelandic indie folk/pop band best known for their hit single "Little Talks" and their atmospheric, narrative-driven songs.
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E.
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band known for its literate lyrics, eclectic blend of pop, rock, and world music influences, and critical acclaim within the alternative music scene.
- 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: Future Islands Target entity description: Future Islands is an American synth-pop band known for their emotive vocals, energetic live performances, and breakthrough success with the song "Seasons (Waiting on You)."
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A.
Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky is an American instrumental post-rock band known for its cinematic, guitar-driven soundscapes and emotionally charged compositions.
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B.
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band known for its grand, orchestral sound, emotionally charged lyrics, and critically acclaimed albums like "Funeral" and "The Suburbs."
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C.
Broken Bells
Broken Bells is an American indie rock band and musical project formed by producer Danger Mouse and The Shins' frontman James Mercer, known for its atmospheric, melodic sound.
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D.
Of Monsters and Men
Of Monsters and Men is an Icelandic indie folk/pop band best known for their hit single "Little Talks" and their atmospheric, narrative-driven songs.
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E.
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band known for its literate lyrics, eclectic blend of pop, rock, and world music influences, and critical acclaim within the alternative music scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
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synth-pop band ⓘ |
| basedIn | Baltimore, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassist | William Cashion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
indie pop
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indie rock ⓘ new wave ⓘ post-wave ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
emotive vocals
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energetic live performances ⓘ |
| hasFormerMember | Eric Murillo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenreElement |
electronic music
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post-punk ⓘ |
| hasInfluence | synth-pop of the 1980s ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | contemporary synth-pop artists ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Gerrit Welmers
NERFINISHED
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Samuel T. Herring NERFINISHED ⓘ William Cashion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart | Future Islands discography ⓘ |
| keyboardist | Gerrit Welmers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Samuel T. Herring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation | Greenville, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong |
A Dream of You and Me
NERFINISHED
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Balance NERFINISHED ⓘ For Sure NERFINISHED ⓘ Ran NERFINISHED ⓘ Seasons (Waiting on You) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tin Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
As Long As You Are
NERFINISHED
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In Evening Air NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Water NERFINISHED ⓘ Seasons (Waiting on You) NERFINISHED ⓘ Singles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Far Field NERFINISHED ⓘ Wave Like Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | musical performers ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
4AD
NERFINISHED
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Friends Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Thrill Jockey NERFINISHED ⓘ Upset The Rhythm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
breakthrough with Seasons (Waiting on You)
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performance on Late Show with David Letterman ⓘ |
| startTime | 2006 ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | dramatic baritone 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: Future Islands Description of subject: Future Islands is an American synth-pop band known for their emotive vocals, energetic live performances, and breakthrough success with the song "Seasons (Waiting on You)."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.