Regina Spektor
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Regina Spektor is a Russian-American singer-songwriter and pianist known for her eclectic, piano-driven indie pop and distinctive, narrative lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Regina Spektor canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8860828 — 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: Regina Spektor Context triple: [Mike Elizondo, workedWith, Regina Spektor]
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A.
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American singer-songwriter and harpist known for her intricate compositions, poetic lyrics, and distinctive vocal style.
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B.
Anna Jepsen
Anna Jepsen is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Jepsen.
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C.
Julia Holter
Julia Holter is an American singer, songwriter, and composer known for her experimental art-pop music that blends classical, ambient, and avant-garde influences.
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D.
Sharon Van Etten
Sharon Van Etten is an American singer-songwriter and actress known for her emotionally resonant indie rock and folk music.
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E.
Melody Gardot
Melody Gardot is an American jazz singer-songwriter known for her sultry vocals, sophisticated arrangements, and blend of jazz, blues, and bossa nova influences.
- 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: Regina Spektor Target entity description: Regina Spektor is a Russian-American singer-songwriter and pianist known for her eclectic, piano-driven indie pop and distinctive, narrative lyrics.
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A.
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American singer-songwriter and harpist known for her intricate compositions, poetic lyrics, and distinctive vocal style.
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B.
Anna Jepsen
Anna Jepsen is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Jepsen.
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C.
Julia Holter
Julia Holter is an American singer, songwriter, and composer known for her experimental art-pop music that blends classical, ambient, and avant-garde influences.
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D.
Sharon Van Etten
Sharon Van Etten is an American singer-songwriter and actress known for her emotionally resonant indie rock and folk music.
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E.
Melody Gardot
Melody Gardot is an American jazz singer-songwriter known for her sultry vocals, sophisticated arrangements, and blend of jazz, blues, and bossa nova influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| birthName | Regina Ilyinichna Spektor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Russia
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Russia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1980-02-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Conservatory of Music at Purchase College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russian Jews ⓘ |
| familyName | Spektor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
anti-folk
ⓘ
baroque pop ⓘ indie pop ⓘ indie rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Regina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | son (born 2014) ⓘ |
| instrument |
piano
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| movedTo | Bronx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Regina Spektor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | "You've Got Time" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "11:11"
NERFINISHED
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album "Begin to Hope" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Far" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Home, before and after" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Remember Us to Life" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "Songs" ⓘ album "Soviet Kitsch" NERFINISHED ⓘ album "What We Saw from the Cheap Seats" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Better" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Eet" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Fidelity" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Hero" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Laughing With" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "On the Radio" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Samson" NERFINISHED ⓘ song "Us" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
pianist
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Moscow ⓘ |
| spouse | Jack Dishel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
eclectic songwriting
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narrative lyrics ⓘ piano-driven arrangements ⓘ use of vocal quirks and nontraditional sounds ⓘ |
| themeSongTitle | "You've Got Time" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteThemeFor | TV series "Orange Is the New Black" 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: Regina Spektor Description of subject: Regina Spektor is a Russian-American singer-songwriter and pianist known for her eclectic, piano-driven indie pop and distinctive, narrative lyrics.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.