Jane Wiedlin
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Jane Wiedlin is an American musician and songwriter best known as the rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the pioneering all-female new wave band The Go-Go’s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Wiedlin canonical | 1 |
| Jane Wiedlin (solo) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8696998 — 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: Jane Wiedlin Context triple: [The Go-Go’s, member, Jane Wiedlin]
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A.
Tanya Donelly
Tanya Donelly is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for her work with influential alternative rock bands Throwing Muses, The Breeders, and Belly, as well as her solo career.
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B.
D’arcy Wretzky
D’arcy Wretzky is an American musician best known as the original bassist of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.
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C.
Emily Young
Emily Young is a British film director and screenwriter known for her work on independent and literary adaptation films.
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D.
Kelley Deal
Kelley Deal is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the alternative rock band The Breeders.
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E.
Ann Rork
Ann Rork was an American silent film actress and socialite best known for her roles in 1920s cinema and her later marriage to oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.
- 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: Jane Wiedlin Target entity description: Jane Wiedlin is an American musician and songwriter best known as the rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the pioneering all-female new wave band The Go-Go’s.
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A.
Tanya Donelly
Tanya Donelly is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for her work with influential alternative rock bands Throwing Muses, The Breeders, and Belly, as well as her solo career.
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B.
D’arcy Wretzky
D’arcy Wretzky is an American musician best known as the original bassist of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.
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C.
Emily Young
Emily Young is a British film director and screenwriter known for her work on independent and literary adaptation films.
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D.
Kelley Deal
Kelley Deal is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the alternative rock band The Breeders.
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E.
Ann Rork
Ann Rork was an American silent film actress and socialite best known for her roles in 1920s cinema and her later marriage to oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
FroSTed
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Psycho Spaghetti Westerns NERFINISHED ⓘ The Go-Go's NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | The Go-Go's NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterOf | Our Lips Are Sealed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coWriterWith | Terry Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-05-20 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
German descent
ⓘ
Lebanese descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Wiedlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Jane ⓘ |
| hasSoloAlbum |
Fur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jane Wiedlin (1985 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kissproof World NERFINISHED ⓘ Tangled NERFINISHED ⓘ The Very Best of Jane Wiedlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Go-Go's NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jane Wiedlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAppearance | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Head Over Heels
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Our Lips Are Sealed NERFINISHED ⓘ Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Joan of Arc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInBand |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
rhythm guitarist ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
ⓘ
I.R.S. Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexualOrientation | bisexual ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Jane Wiedlin Description of subject: Jane Wiedlin is an American musician and songwriter best known as the rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the pioneering all-female new wave band The Go-Go’s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jane Wiedlin (solo)