Neutral Milk Hotel
E470116
Neutral Milk Hotel is an American indie rock band, led by singer-songwriter Jeff Mangum, best known for their influential lo-fi, psychedelic folk album "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neutral Milk Hotel canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4786097 — 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: Neutral Milk Hotel Context triple: [40 Watt Club, associatedWithArtist, Neutral Milk Hotel]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Built to Spill
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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D.
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices is an American indie rock band from Dayton, Ohio, known for its prolific lo-fi recordings and the songwriting of frontman Robert Pollard.
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E.
Sebadoh
Sebadoh is an influential American indie rock band, co-founded by Lou Barlow, known for pioneering the lo-fi aesthetic of the late 1980s and 1990s underground music scene.
- 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: Neutral Milk Hotel Target entity description: Neutral Milk Hotel is an American indie rock band, led by singer-songwriter Jeff Mangum, best known for their influential lo-fi, psychedelic folk album "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea."
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Built to Spill
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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D.
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices is an American indie rock band from Dayton, Ohio, known for its prolific lo-fi recordings and the songwriting of frontman Robert Pollard.
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E.
Sebadoh
Sebadoh is an influential American indie rock band, co-founded by Lou Barlow, known for pioneering the lo-fi aesthetic of the late 1980s and 1990s underground music scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American rock band
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indie rock band ⓘ psychedelic folk band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd |
1999
ⓘ
2015 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart |
1989
ⓘ
2013 ⓘ |
| basedIn | Athens, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReputation |
cult band
ⓘ
influential indie rock band ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | On Avery Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| EP |
Everything Is
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ferris Wheel on Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Jeff Mangum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental rock
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folk rock ⓘ indie rock ⓘ lo-fi ⓘ lo-fi folk ⓘ neo-psychedelia ⓘ noise rock ⓘ psychedelic folk ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
Arcade Fire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brand New NERFINISHED ⓘ Bright Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ Okkervil River NERFINISHED ⓘ The Decemberists NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mountain Goats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Jeff Mangum
NERFINISHED
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Jeremy Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ Julian Koster NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Spillane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPastMember |
Laura Carter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lisa Janssen NERFINISHED ⓘ Marisa Bissinger NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelle Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Finck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1989 ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
accordion
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bagpipes ⓘ horns ⓘ lo-fi acoustic guitar ⓘ singing saw ⓘ |
| lyricalThemes |
Anne Frank
NERFINISHED
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World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ spirituality ⓘ surrealism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Everything Is
NERFINISHED
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Ferris Wheel on Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Holland, 1945 NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Aeroplane Over the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ King of Carrot Flowers NERFINISHED ⓘ On Avery Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Two-Headed Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| origin | Ruston, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Elephant 6 Recording Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Domino Recording Company
NERFINISHED
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Fire Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Merge Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondAlbum | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| single |
Holland, 1945
NERFINISHED
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Birds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tour | 2013–2015 reunion tour ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | distinctive nasal vocals ⓘ |
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: Neutral Milk Hotel Description of subject: Neutral Milk Hotel is an American indie rock band, led by singer-songwriter Jeff Mangum, best known for their influential lo-fi, psychedelic folk album "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
40 Watt Club