Rostam Batmanglij
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Rostam Batmanglij is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as a founding member of Vampire Weekend and for his influential work across indie rock and pop.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rostam Batmanglij canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11307686 — 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: Rostam Batmanglij Context triple: [Payphone, producer, Rostam Batmanglij]
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A.
Darius Tanz
Darius Tanz is a brilliant but controversial tech billionaire and scientist who plays a central role in the TV series "Salvation," leading efforts to prevent an impending asteroid impact on Earth.
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B.
Ramin
Ramin is a masculine given name of Persian origin, commonly used in Iran and among Persian-speaking communities.
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C.
Medalion Rahimi
Medalion Rahimi is an American actress known for her roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Before I Fall" and the series "NCIS: Los Angeles."
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D.
Arsalan Jah
Arsalan Jah was a royal consort associated with the Asaf Jahi dynasty of Hyderabad and the mother of Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad.
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E.
Ali Razmara
Ali Razmara was an Iranian military officer and technocratic politician who briefly served as prime minister in the early 1950s before being assassinated amid intense political turmoil.
- 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: Rostam Batmanglij Target entity description: Rostam Batmanglij is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as a founding member of Vampire Weekend and for his influential work across indie rock and pop.
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A.
Darius Tanz
Darius Tanz is a brilliant but controversial tech billionaire and scientist who plays a central role in the TV series "Salvation," leading efforts to prevent an impending asteroid impact on Earth.
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B.
Ramin
Ramin is a masculine given name of Persian origin, commonly used in Iran and among Persian-speaking communities.
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C.
Medalion Rahimi
Medalion Rahimi is an American actress known for her roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Before I Fall" and the series "NCIS: Los Angeles."
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D.
Arsalan Jah
Arsalan Jah was a royal consort associated with the Asaf Jahi dynasty of Hyderabad and the mother of Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad.
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E.
Ali Razmara
Ali Razmara was an Iranian military officer and technocratic politician who briefly served as prime minister in the early 1950s before being assassinated amid intense political turmoil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Charli XCX
NERFINISHED
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Clairo NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ Haim NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamilton Leithauser NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ Vampire Weekend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1983-11-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbia University ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Iranian ⓘ |
| familyName | Batmanglij NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | music ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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art pop ⓘ baroque pop ⓘ indie pop ⓘ indie rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Rostam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
indie pop
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indie rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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harpsichord ⓘ keyboards ⓘ piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Vampire Weekend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Rostam Batmanglij NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Contra (album)
NERFINISHED
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Half-Light NERFINISHED ⓘ I Had a Dream That You Were Mine NERFINISHED ⓘ Modern Vampires of the City NERFINISHED ⓘ Vampire Weekend (debut album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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guitarist ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| positionHeld | founding member of Vampire Weekend ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Nonesuch Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| sibling | Zal Batmanglij NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Rostam Batmanglij Description of subject: Rostam Batmanglij is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as a founding member of Vampire Weekend and for his influential work across indie rock and pop.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.