Joshua Radin
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Joshua Radin is an American singer-songwriter known for his gentle, acoustic folk-pop songs and frequent placements in film and television soundtracks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joshua Radin canonical | 3 |
| Joshua Radin – American singer-songwriter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6883760 — 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: Joshua Radin Context triple: [Priscilla Ahn, associatedAct, Joshua Radin]
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A.
Donavon Frankenreiter
Donavon Frankenreiter is an American singer-songwriter and surfer known for his laid-back, folk-rock sound and close association with Jack Johnson and the surf music scene.
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B.
Michael Penn
Michael Penn is an American singer-songwriter and composer known for his work on film scores and his 1989 hit single "No Myth."
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C.
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin DeGraw is an American singer-songwriter best known for his soulful pop-rock hits like "I Don't Want to Be" and "Chariot."
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D.
Curt Cress
Curt Cress is a German drummer, composer, and producer known for his prolific session work and contributions to jazz-rock and pop music since the 1970s.
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E.
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.
- 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: Joshua Radin Target entity description: Joshua Radin is an American singer-songwriter known for his gentle, acoustic folk-pop songs and frequent placements in film and television soundtracks.
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A.
Donavon Frankenreiter
Donavon Frankenreiter is an American singer-songwriter and surfer known for his laid-back, folk-rock sound and close association with Jack Johnson and the surf music scene.
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B.
Michael Penn
Michael Penn is an American singer-songwriter and composer known for his work on film scores and his 1989 hit single "No Myth."
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C.
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin DeGraw is an American singer-songwriter best known for his soulful pop-rock hits like "I Don't Want to Be" and "Chariot."
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D.
Curt Cress
Curt Cress is a German drummer, composer, and producer known for his prolific session work and contributions to jazz-rock and pop music since the 1970s.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1974-06-14 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | We Were Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
acoustic
ⓘ
folk ⓘ folk-pop ⓘ |
| hasFanbaseIn |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
gentle acoustic arrangements
ⓘ
intimate vocal delivery ⓘ |
| hasVoiceType | soft tenor ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.joshuaradin.com ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bob Dylan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nick Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon & Garfunkel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor | frequent placements in film and television soundtracks ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Here, Right Now
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Onward and Sideways NERFINISHED ⓘ Simple Times NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fall NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rock and the Tide NERFINISHED ⓘ Underwater NERFINISHED ⓘ We Were Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
Mom + Pop Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Nettwerk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| songFeaturedInFilm |
Catch and Release
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Last Kiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| songFeaturedInTelevision |
Brothers and Sisters
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grey's Anatomy NERFINISHED ⓘ House NERFINISHED ⓘ One Tree Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Scrubs 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: Joshua Radin Description of subject: Joshua Radin is an American singer-songwriter known for his gentle, acoustic folk-pop songs and frequent placements in film and television soundtracks.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Joshua Radin – American singer-songwriter