Modest Mouse
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Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band known for its eclectic sound, introspective lyrics, and influential albums like "The Moon & Antarctica" and "Good News for People Who Love Bad News."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Modest Mouse canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1416499 — 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: Modest Mouse Context triple: [Epic Records, hasArtist, Modest Mouse]
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A.
Against the Day
Against the Day is a sprawling, genre-blending historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, weaving together adventure, science, politics, and metaphysical speculation.
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B.
Mogwai
Mogwai is a Scottish post-rock band known for its atmospheric, guitar-driven instrumentals and dynamic shifts between quiet melodies and intense noise.
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C.
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band best known for late-1990s and early-2000s hits like "Push," "3AM," and "Unwell," led by singer-songwriter Rob Thomas.
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D.
Pavement
Pavement is an influential American indie rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and major impact on 1990s alternative music.
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E.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
- 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: Modest Mouse Target entity description: Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band known for its eclectic sound, introspective lyrics, and influential albums like "The Moon & Antarctica" and "Good News for People Who Love Bad News."
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A.
Against the Day
Against the Day is a sprawling, genre-blending historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, weaving together adventure, science, politics, and metaphysical speculation.
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B.
Mogwai
Mogwai is a Scottish post-rock band known for its atmospheric, guitar-driven instrumentals and dynamic shifts between quiet melodies and intense noise.
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C.
Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band best known for late-1990s and early-2000s hits like "Push," "3AM," and "Unwell," led by singer-songwriter Rob Thomas.
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D.
Pavement
Pavement is an influential American indie rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and major impact on 1990s alternative music.
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E.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (80)
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: Modest Mouse Description of subject: Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band known for its eclectic sound, introspective lyrics, and influential albums like "The Moon & Antarctica" and "Good News for People Who Love Bad News."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Epic Records
subject surface form:
Float On
subject surface form:
The Moon & Antarctica
subject surface form:
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
subject surface form:
The Lonesome Crowded West
subject surface form:
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
subject surface form:
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
subject surface form:
Strangers to Ourselves
subject surface form:
The Golden Casket