Devendra Banhart
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Devendra Banhart is an American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter and visual artist known for his influential role in the 2000s freak-folk movement and his eclectic, psychedelic folk sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Devendra Banhart canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4306366 — 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: Devendra Banhart Context triple: [Noah Georgeson, workedWith, Devendra Banhart]
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A.
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is an American indie folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his virtuosic violin playing, distinctive whistling, and literate, genre-blending compositions.
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B.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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C.
Cam Guthrie
Cam Guthrie is a Canadian politician best known as the long-serving mayor of the city of Guelph, Ontario.
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D.
Scott Litt
Scott Litt is an American record producer and engineer best known for his influential work with alternative rock bands such as R.E.M. and Nirvana.
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E.
M. Ward
M. Ward is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his indie folk sound and collaborations in projects like She & Him and Monsters of Folk.
- 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: Devendra Banhart Target entity description: Devendra Banhart is an American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter and visual artist known for his influential role in the 2000s freak-folk movement and his eclectic, psychedelic folk sound.
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A.
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is an American indie folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his virtuosic violin playing, distinctive whistling, and literate, genre-blending compositions.
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B.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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C.
Cam Guthrie
Cam Guthrie is a Canadian politician best known as the long-serving mayor of the city of Guelph, Ontario.
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D.
Scott Litt
Scott Litt is an American record producer and engineer best known for his influential work with alternative rock bands such as R.E.M. and Nirvana.
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E.
M. Ward
M. Ward is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his indie folk sound and collaborations in projects like She & Him and Monsters of Folk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk singer
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ painter ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | early 2000s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Antony and the Johnsons
NERFINISHED
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Joanna Newsom NERFINISHED ⓘ Noah Georgeson NERFINISHED ⓘ Vetiver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Devendra Obi Banhart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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Venezuela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1981-05-30 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
American
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Venezuelan ⓘ |
| familyName | Banhart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
folk rock
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freak folk ⓘ indie folk ⓘ psychedelic folk ⓘ |
| givenName | Devendra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary freak-folk artists ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Spanish ⓘ |
| movement |
New Weird America
NERFINISHED
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freak folk ⓘ |
| name | Devendra Banhart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ape in Pink Marble
NERFINISHED
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Cripple Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ Ma NERFINISHED ⓘ Mala NERFINISHED ⓘ Nino Rojo NERFINISHED ⓘ Oh Me Oh My NERFINISHED ⓘ Rejoicing in the Hands NERFINISHED ⓘ Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon NERFINISHED ⓘ What Will We Be NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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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: Devendra Banhart Description of subject: Devendra Banhart is an American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter and visual artist known for his influential role in the 2000s freak-folk movement and his eclectic, psychedelic folk sound.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.