Karen O
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Karen O is the dynamic lead vocalist of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and an acclaimed singer-songwriter known for her distinctive voice and inventive film soundtrack work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Karen O canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507654 — 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: Karen O Context triple: [Where the Wild Things Are, musicBy, Karen O]
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A.
Kate Hannan
Kate Hannan is the wife of American actor F. Murray Abraham, known for maintaining a largely private life outside of her husband's long film and stage career.
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B.
Kate Soffel
Kate Soffel is the real-life warden’s wife whose illicit romance with a condemned prisoner inspired the 1984 film "Mrs. Soffel."
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C.
Kerri Gowler
Kerri Gowler is a New Zealand rower and Olympic champion known for her success in women's pair and eight events on the world stage.
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D.
Julie Yorn
Julie Yorn is an American film producer known for her work on a range of Hollywood movies, including comedies and thrillers.
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E.
Lisa Wilhoit
Lisa Wilhoit is an American actress best known for her role on the cult teen drama series "My So-Called Life."
- 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: Karen O Target entity description: Karen O is the dynamic lead vocalist of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and an acclaimed singer-songwriter known for her distinctive voice and inventive film soundtrack work.
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A.
Kate Hannan
Kate Hannan is the wife of American actor F. Murray Abraham, known for maintaining a largely private life outside of her husband's long film and stage career.
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B.
Kate Soffel
Kate Soffel is the real-life warden’s wife whose illicit romance with a condemned prisoner inspired the 1984 film "Mrs. Soffel."
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C.
Kerri Gowler
Kerri Gowler is a New Zealand rower and Olympic champion known for her success in women's pair and eight events on the world stage.
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D.
Julie Yorn
Julie Yorn is an American film producer known for her work on a range of Hollywood movies, including comedies and thrillers.
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E.
Lisa Wilhoit
Lisa Wilhoit is an American actress best known for her role on the cult teen drama series "My So-Called Life."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film score composer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 2000 ⓘ |
| birthName | Karen Lee Orzolek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Danger Mouse
NERFINISHED
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Spike Jonze NERFINISHED ⓘ Trent Reznor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
South Korea
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978-11-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
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Oberlin College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
Korean
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Polish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Orzolek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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art punk ⓘ garage rock ⓘ indie rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Karen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
energetic stage performances
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inventive film soundtrack work ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yeah Yeah Yeahs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Karen O NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Original Song
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Grammy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | distinctive vocal style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Crush Songs
NERFINISHED
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Heads Will Roll NERFINISHED ⓘ Lux Prima NERFINISHED ⓘ Maps NERFINISHED ⓘ The Moon Song NERFINISHED ⓘ Where the Wild Things Are (soundtrack) NERFINISHED ⓘ Zero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Busan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lead vocalist of Yeah Yeah Yeahs ⓘ |
| spouse | Barnaby Clay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Karen O Description of subject: Karen O is the dynamic lead vocalist of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and an acclaimed singer-songwriter known for her distinctive voice and inventive film soundtrack work.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.