Cursive
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Cursive is an American indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, known for its emotionally intense lyrics and inventive, genre-blending sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cursive canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8671771 — 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: Cursive Context triple: [Desaparecidos, associatedAct, Cursive]
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A.
Handwritten
"Handwritten" is a 2012 rock album by The Gaslight Anthem that showcases their heartland punk sound with anthemic, emotionally charged songs.
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B.
Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew
Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew is a handwritten Hebrew script style traditionally used by Ashkenazi Jews for everyday writing, distinct from formal print and calligraphic scripts.
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C.
Nastaʿlīq
Nastaʿlīq is an elegant, flowing calligraphic style of the Perso-Arabic script historically associated with Persian literary and artistic traditions.
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D.
Carolingian minuscule
Carolingian minuscule is a clear, uniform medieval Latin script developed under the Carolingian Empire that became a standard for handwriting and influenced later European typefaces.
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E.
Naskh script
Naskh script is a widely used, highly legible style of Arabic calligraphy commonly employed in printed texts, books, and everyday writing.
- 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: Cursive Target entity description: Cursive is an American indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, known for its emotionally intense lyrics and inventive, genre-blending sound.
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A.
Handwritten
"Handwritten" is a 2012 rock album by The Gaslight Anthem that showcases their heartland punk sound with anthemic, emotionally charged songs.
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B.
Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew
Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew is a handwritten Hebrew script style traditionally used by Ashkenazi Jews for everyday writing, distinct from formal print and calligraphic scripts.
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C.
Nastaʿlīq
Nastaʿlīq is an elegant, flowing calligraphic style of the Perso-Arabic script historically associated with Persian literary and artistic traditions.
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D.
Carolingian minuscule
Carolingian minuscule is a clear, uniform medieval Latin script developed under the Carolingian Empire that became a standard for handwriting and influenced later European typefaces.
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E.
Naskh script
Naskh script is a widely used, highly legible style of Arabic calligraphy commonly employed in printed texts, books, and everyday writing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concept album
ⓘ
indie rock band ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| activeFrom | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bright Eyes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Criteria ⓘ Desaparecidos NERFINISHED ⓘ Lullaby for the Working Class NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Omaha, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
emo ⓘ indie rock ⓘ post-hardcore ⓘ post-punk ⓘ |
| hasFormerMember |
Cellist Gretta Cohn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steve Pedersen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Clint Schnase
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dylan Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ Gretta Cohn NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Maginn NERFINISHED ⓘ Megan Siebe NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Newbery NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Kasher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadSongwriter | Tim Kasher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricalThemes |
existential anxiety
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relationships ⓘ religion ⓘ self-doubt ⓘ |
| notableFor |
emotionally intense lyrics
ⓘ
inventive, genre-blending sound ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Domestica
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Get Fixed NERFINISHED ⓘ Happy Hollow NERFINISHED ⓘ I Am Gemini NERFINISHED ⓘ Mama, I’m Swollen NERFINISHED ⓘ The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ugly Organ NERFINISHED ⓘ Vitriola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originatedInScene | Omaha indie rock scene ⓘ |
| performer |
Cursive
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cursive NERFINISHED ⓘ Cursive NERFINISHED ⓘ Cursive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
15 Passenger
ⓘ
Saddle Creek Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Tim Kasher 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: Cursive Description of subject: Cursive is an American indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, known for its emotionally intense lyrics and inventive, genre-blending sound.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.