Mothersbaugh
E370195
Mothersbaugh is the surname most prominently associated with American musician and composer Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the new wave band Devo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mothersbaugh canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3579925 — 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: Mothersbaugh Context triple: [Mark Mothersbaugh, familyName, Mothersbaugh]
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A.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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B.
Wouldham
Wouldham is a village in Kent, England, situated on the River Medway and known for its historic church and rural character.
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C.
Mott
Mott is a surname most notably associated with Sir Nevill Mott, the Nobel Prize–winning British physicist recognized for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
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D.
The Micks
The Micks is an informal nickname for the Irish Guards, a regiment of the British Army with strong Irish heritage and traditions.
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E.
Kross
Kross is an Estonian surname most notably borne by the acclaimed writer and former political prisoner Jaan Kross.
- 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: Mothersbaugh Target entity description: Mothersbaugh is the surname most prominently associated with American musician and composer Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the new wave band Devo.
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A.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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B.
Wouldham
Wouldham is a village in Kent, England, situated on the River Medway and known for its historic church and rural character.
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C.
Mott
Mott is a surname most notably associated with Sir Nevill Mott, the Nobel Prize–winning British physicist recognized for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
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D.
The Micks
The Micks is an informal nickname for the Irish Guards, a regiment of the British Army with strong Irish heritage and traditions.
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E.
Kross
Kross is an Estonian surname most notably borne by the acclaimed writer and former political prisoner Jaan Kross.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
ⓘ
composer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ musical group ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| fieldOfWork |
film score composition
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television music ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
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rock ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Mothersbaugh self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasFormerMember | Jim Mothersbaugh ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Bob Mothersbaugh
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Mark Mothersbaugh ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding the band Devo ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Devo ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Bob Mothersbaugh
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Jim Mothersbaugh ⓘ Mark Mothersbaugh ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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drummer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
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: Mothersbaugh Description of subject: Mothersbaugh is the surname most prominently associated with American musician and composer Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the new wave band Devo.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mark Mothersbaugh