The Mountain Goats
E1038941
The Mountain Goats are an American indie folk-rock band led by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, known for their narrative-driven lyrics and lo-fi origins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Mountain Goats canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13419744 — 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: The Mountain Goats Context triple: [John Congleton, associatedAct, The Mountain Goats]
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A.
Pedro the Lion
Pedro the Lion is an American indie rock band led by singer-songwriter David Bazan, known for its introspective lyrics and emotionally raw, guitar-driven sound.
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B.
Band of Horses
Band of Horses is an American indie rock band known for its atmospheric sound, emotive lyrics, and albums like "Everything All the Time" and "Cease to Begin."
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C.
The Black Angels
The Black Angels are an American psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas, known for their dark, drone-heavy sound and revival of 1960s-style psych rock.
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D.
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey, known for their eclectic sound, melodic noise, and influential role in alternative music since the 1980s.
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E.
The Band of Heathens
The Band of Heathens is an American roots rock and Americana band from Austin, Texas, known for its soulful harmonies, eclectic songwriting, and energetic live performances.
- 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: The Mountain Goats Target entity description: The Mountain Goats are an American indie folk-rock band led by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, known for their narrative-driven lyrics and lo-fi origins.
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A.
Pedro the Lion
Pedro the Lion is an American indie rock band led by singer-songwriter David Bazan, known for its introspective lyrics and emotionally raw, guitar-driven sound.
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B.
Band of Horses
Band of Horses is an American indie rock band known for its atmospheric sound, emotive lyrics, and albums like "Everything All the Time" and "Cease to Begin."
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C.
The Black Angels
The Black Angels are an American psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas, known for their dark, drone-heavy sound and revival of 1960s-style psych rock.
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D.
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey, known for their eclectic sound, melodic noise, and influential role in alternative music since the 1980s.
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E.
The Band of Heathens
The Band of Heathens is an American roots rock and Americana band from Austin, Texas, known for its soulful harmonies, eclectic songwriting, and energetic live performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musical group
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indie folk band ⓘ indie rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1991 ⓘ |
| basedIn | Durham, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| earlyRecordingMedium | boombox cassette recorder ⓘ |
| formedIn | 1991 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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folk rock ⓘ indie folk ⓘ indie rock ⓘ lo-fi ⓘ |
| hasAlbum |
All Eternals Deck
NERFINISHED
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All Hail West Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Beat the Champ NERFINISHED ⓘ Bleed Out NERFINISHED ⓘ Dark in Here NERFINISHED ⓘ Full Force Galesburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Get Lonely NERFINISHED ⓘ Getting Into Knives NERFINISHED ⓘ Goths NERFINISHED ⓘ Heretic Pride NERFINISHED ⓘ In League with Dragons NERFINISHED ⓘ Jenny from Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ Nothing for Juice NERFINISHED ⓘ Songs for Pierre Chuvin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ Tallahassee NERFINISHED ⓘ The Coroner's Gambit NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life of the World to Come NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sunset Tree NERFINISHED ⓘ Transcendental Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ We Shall All Be Healed NERFINISHED ⓘ Zopilote Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFanbaseNickname | Goats fans ⓘ |
| hasFormerMember |
Franklin Bruno
NERFINISHED
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John Vanderslice (tour collaborator) NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Peter Hughes (touring, pre-full membership) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel Ware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLeader | John Darnielle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
John Darnielle
NERFINISHED
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Jon Wurster NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
addiction
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fictional narratives ⓘ personal trauma ⓘ relationships ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| notableFor |
lo-fi recording style in early releases
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narrative-driven lyrics ⓘ |
| notableSong |
No Children
NERFINISHED
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The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton NERFINISHED ⓘ This Year NERFINISHED ⓘ Up the Wolves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originallyFrom | Claremont, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySongwriter | John Darnielle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
4AD
NERFINISHED
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Absolutely Kosher Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Merge Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Shrimper Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.mountain-goats.com/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: The Mountain Goats Description of subject: The Mountain Goats are an American indie folk-rock band led by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, known for their narrative-driven lyrics and lo-fi origins.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.