Smash Mouth
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Smash Mouth is an American rock band best known for their late-1990s and early-2000s pop-rock hits like “All Star” and “Walkin’ on the Sun,” which blended catchy melodies with a playful, upbeat style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Smash Mouth canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3795079 — 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: Smash Mouth Context triple: [Neil Diamond, influenced, Smash Mouth]
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A.
Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American pop-punk band known for its catchy melodies, irreverent humor, and influential role in bringing punk rock into the mainstream in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
3 Doors Down
3 Doors Down is an American rock band best known for their early-2000s hits like "Kryptonite" and "Here Without You."
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C.
Fountains of Wayne
Fountains of Wayne was an American power pop and alternative rock band best known for their melodic, hook-driven songs and the hit single "Stacy's Mom."
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D.
Godsmack
Godsmack is an American hard rock and alternative metal band known for hits like "I Stand Alone" and "Voodoo" and for their aggressive, riff-driven sound.
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E.
The Offspring
The Offspring is an American punk rock band known for helping popularize punk in the 1990s with hit albums like "Smash" and singles such as "Come Out and Play" and "Self Esteem."
- 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: Smash Mouth Target entity description: Smash Mouth is an American rock band best known for their late-1990s and early-2000s pop-rock hits like “All Star” and “Walkin’ on the Sun,” which blended catchy melodies with a playful, upbeat style.
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A.
Blink-182
Blink-182 is an American pop-punk band known for its catchy melodies, irreverent humor, and influential role in bringing punk rock into the mainstream in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
3 Doors Down
3 Doors Down is an American rock band best known for their early-2000s hits like "Kryptonite" and "Here Without You."
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C.
Fountains of Wayne
Fountains of Wayne was an American power pop and alternative rock band best known for their melodic, hook-driven songs and the hit single "Stacy's Mom."
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D.
Godsmack
Godsmack is an American hard rock and alternative metal band known for hits like "I Stand Alone" and "Voodoo" and for their aggressive, riff-driven sound.
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E.
The Offspring
The Offspring is an American punk rock band known for helping popularize punk in the 1990s with hit albums like "Smash" and singles such as "Come Out and Play" and "Self Esteem."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical group
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musician ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ rock band ⓘ singer ⓘ song ⓘ song ⓘ studio album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1994 ⓘ |
| album |
Astro Lounge
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Christmas album The Gift of Rock ⓘ Fush Yu Mang ⓘ Get the Picture? ⓘ Magic ⓘ Smash Mouth self-link ⓘ Summer Girl ⓘ |
| artist | Smash Mouth self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Shrek
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surface form:
Shrek (film)
|
| bestKnownFor |
early-2000s pop-rock hits
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late-1990s pop-rock hits ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Fush Yu Mang ⓘ |
| formedInYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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pop rock ⓘ power pop ⓘ rock ⓘ ska punk ⓘ surf rock ⓘ third wave ska ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Greg Camp
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Kevin Coleman ⓘ Michael Klooster ⓘ Paul De Lisle ⓘ Steve Harwell ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.smashmouth.com/ ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
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surface form:
Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
|
| notableWork |
All Star
ⓘ
Can't Get Enough of You Baby ⓘ I’m a Believer ⓘ
surface form:
I'm a Believer
Then the Morning Comes ⓘ Walkin' on the Sun ⓘ |
| origin | San Jose, California, United States ⓘ |
| performer | Smash Mouth self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
429 Records
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Interscope Records ⓘ Universal Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
1997
ⓘ
1999 ⓘ |
| role |
bassist of Smash Mouth
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drummer of Smash Mouth ⓘ guitarist of Smash Mouth ⓘ keyboardist of Smash Mouth ⓘ lead vocalist of Smash Mouth ⓘ primary songwriter of Smash Mouth ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Shrek
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surface form:
Shrek (film)
|
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: Smash Mouth Description of subject: Smash Mouth is an American rock band best known for their late-1990s and early-2000s pop-rock hits like “All Star” and “Walkin’ on the Sun,” which blended catchy melodies with a playful, upbeat style.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fush Yu Mang
subject surface form:
All Star