Built to Spill
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Built to Spill is an American indie rock band known for its intricate guitar work, introspective lyrics, and influential role in the 1990s and 2000s indie music scene.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Built to Spill canonical | 5 |
| Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3705065 — 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: Built to Spill Context triple: [K Records, hasArtist, Built to Spill]
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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.
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American experimental rock band known for its lush, psychedelic soundscapes and critically acclaimed albums such as "Deserter's Songs."
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C.
Modest Mouse
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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D.
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and lo-fi to folk-influenced sound.
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E.
The Raconteurs
The Raconteurs are an American rock band formed by Jack White and Brendan Benson, known for their blues-influenced garage rock sound and albums like "Broken Boy Soldiers" and "Consolers of the Lonely."
- 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: Built to Spill Target entity description: Built to Spill is an American indie rock band known for its intricate guitar work, introspective lyrics, and influential role in the 1990s and 2000s indie music scene.
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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.
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American experimental rock band known for its lush, psychedelic soundscapes and critically acclaimed albums such as "Deserter's Songs."
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C.
Modest Mouse
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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D.
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and lo-fi to folk-influenced sound.
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E.
The Raconteurs
The Raconteurs are an American rock band formed by Jack White and Brendan Benson, known for their blues-influenced garage rock sound and albums like "Broken Boy Soldiers" and "Consolers of the Lonely."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Built to Spill Description of subject: Built to Spill is an American indie rock band known for its intricate guitar work, introspective lyrics, and influential role in the 1990s and 2000s indie music scene.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston