Fat Mike
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Fat Mike is an American musician best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of the punk rock band NOFX and a prominent figure in the punk rock scene.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fat Mike canonical | 4 |
| NOFX frontman Fat Mike | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6415365 — 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: Fat Mike Context triple: [Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, hasMember, Fat Mike]
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A.
Ben Weasel
Ben Weasel is an American punk rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the influential pop-punk band Screeching Weasel.
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B.
Greg Graffin
Greg Graffin is an American singer, songwriter, and evolutionary biologist best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the punk rock band Bad Religion.
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C.
Scott Asheton
Scott Asheton was an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the influential proto-punk band The Stooges.
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D.
Glenn Danzig
Glenn Danzig is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the founder and original frontman of the influential horror punk band Misfits, later leading the bands Samhain and Danzig.
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E.
Duff McKagan
Duff McKagan is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses.
- 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: Fat Mike Target entity description: Fat Mike is an American musician best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of the punk rock band NOFX and a prominent figure in the punk rock scene.
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A.
Ben Weasel
Ben Weasel is an American punk rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the influential pop-punk band Screeching Weasel.
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B.
Greg Graffin
Greg Graffin is an American singer, songwriter, and evolutionary biologist best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the punk rock band Bad Religion.
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C.
Scott Asheton
Scott Asheton was an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the influential proto-punk band The Stooges.
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D.
Glenn Danzig
Glenn Danzig is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the founder and original frontman of the influential horror punk band Misfits, later leading the bands Samhain and Danzig.
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E.
Duff McKagan
Duff McKagan is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Against Me!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Codefendants NERFINISHED ⓘ Cokie the Clown NERFINISHED ⓘ Me First and the Gimme Gimmes NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Michael John Burkett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-01-31 ⓘ |
| familyName | Burkett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Fat Wreck Chords NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hardcore punk
ⓘ
melodic hardcore ⓘ punk rock ⓘ skate punk ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a prominent figure in the 1990s punk revival
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humorous and satirical lyrics ⓘ political activism in the punk scene ⓘ |
| memberOf | NOFX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | punk rock ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Codefendants album "This Is Crime Wave"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cokie the Clown album "You're Welcome" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "Coaster" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "Double Album" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "Heavy Petting Zoo" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "Punk in Drublic" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "Ribbed" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "Self Entitled" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "Single Album" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "The Decline" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean" NERFINISHED ⓘ NOFX album "Wolves in Wolves' Clothing" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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record label founder ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Newton, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | co-founder of PunkVoter.com ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
bassist of NOFX
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lead vocalist of NOFX ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Fat Wreck Chords NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| stageName | Fat Mike 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: Fat Mike Description of subject: Fat Mike is an American musician best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of the punk rock band NOFX and a prominent figure in the punk rock scene.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NOFX frontman Fat Mike