Yo La Tengo
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Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey, known for their eclectic sound, melodic noise, and influential role in alternative music since the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yo La Tengo canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5054392 — 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: Yo La Tengo Context triple: [I Threw It All Away, hasCoverVersionBy, Yo La Tengo]
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A.
The Walkmen
The Walkmen are an American indie rock band known for their atmospheric sound, vintage instrumentation, and critically acclaimed albums like "Bows + Arrows."
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B.
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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C.
Parquet Courts
Parquet Courts is an American indie rock band known for its sharp, punk-influenced sound and intellectually charged, socially observant lyrics.
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D.
Neutral Milk Hotel
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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E.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
- 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: Yo La Tengo Target entity description: Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey, known for their eclectic sound, melodic noise, and influential role in alternative music since the 1980s.
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A.
The Walkmen
The Walkmen are an American indie rock band known for their atmospheric sound, vintage instrumentation, and critically acclaimed albums like "Bows + Arrows."
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B.
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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C.
Parquet Courts
Parquet Courts is an American indie rock band known for its sharp, punk-influenced sound and intellectually charged, socially observant lyrics.
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D.
Neutral Milk Hotel
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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E.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | indie rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1984 ⓘ |
| basedIn | Hoboken, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerMember |
Dave Rick
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Schramm NERFINISHED ⓘ Gene Holder NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephan Wichnewski NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
art rock ⓘ dream pop ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ folk rock ⓘ garage rock ⓘ indie rock ⓘ noise pop ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ shoegaze ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Georgia Hubley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ira Kaplan NERFINISHED ⓘ James McNew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicalInfluence |
Love
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Television NERFINISHED ⓘ The Feelies NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kinks NERFINISHED ⓘ The Velvet Underground NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Hoboken, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://yolatengo.com/ ⓘ |
| inception | 1984 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
eclectic sound
ⓘ
long improvisational jams ⓘ use of melodic noise ⓘ |
| notableWork |
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Electr-O-Pura NERFINISHED ⓘ Fade NERFINISHED ⓘ Fakebook NERFINISHED ⓘ I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass NERFINISHED ⓘ I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One NERFINISHED ⓘ Painful NERFINISHED ⓘ Popular Songs NERFINISHED ⓘ Summer Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ There’s a Riot Going On NERFINISHED ⓘ This Stupid World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Alias Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bar/None Records NERFINISHED ⓘ City Slang NERFINISHED ⓘ Matador Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Yo La Tengo Description of subject: Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey, known for their eclectic sound, melodic noise, and influential role in alternative music since the 1980s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.