Matthew Followill
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Matthew Followill is the lead guitarist of the American rock band Kings of Leon, known for his distinctive riffs and contribution to the group's Southern and alternative rock sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Followill canonical | 88 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1785528 — 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: Matthew Followill Context triple: [Kings of Leon, member, Matthew Followill]
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A.
Nathan Followill
Nathan Followill is an American drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band Kings of Leon.
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B.
Jared Followill
Jared Followill is an American bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Kings of Leon.
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C.
Mike Settle
Mike Settle is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his work in the late 1960s folk and country-rock scenes, including as a member of Kenny Rogers and The First Edition.
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D.
Caleb Followill
Caleb Followill is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Kings of Leon.
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E.
Sam W. Hunt
Sam W. Hunt is an American politician who served as a member of the Washington State Legislature.
- 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: Matthew Followill Target entity description: Matthew Followill is the lead guitarist of the American rock band Kings of Leon, known for his distinctive riffs and contribution to the group's Southern and alternative rock sound.
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A.
Nathan Followill
Nathan Followill is an American drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band Kings of Leon.
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B.
Jared Followill
Jared Followill is an American bassist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Kings of Leon.
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C.
Mike Settle
Mike Settle is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his work in the late 1960s folk and country-rock scenes, including as a member of Kenny Rogers and The First Edition.
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D.
Caleb Followill
Caleb Followill is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Kings of Leon.
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E.
Sam W. Hunt
Sam W. Hunt is an American politician who served as a member of the Washington State Legislature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Kings of Leon ⓘ |
| bandRole | lead guitarist ⓘ |
| familyName | Followill ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern rock
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alternative rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Matthew ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| memberOf | Kings of Leon ⓘ |
| name | Matthew Followill ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributing to Kings of Leon's Southern rock sound
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contributing to Kings of Leon's alternative rock sound ⓘ distinctive guitar riffs ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aha Shake Heartbreak
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Because of the Times ⓘ Come Around Sundown ⓘ Mechanical Bull ⓘ Only by the Night ⓘ Walls ⓘ When You See Yourself ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
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: Matthew Followill Description of subject: Matthew Followill is the lead guitarist of the American rock band Kings of Leon, known for his distinctive riffs and contribution to the group's Southern and alternative rock sound.
Referenced by (88)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Closer
subject linked to:
Followill
subject linked to:
Kings of Leon album "Youth & Young Manhood"
subject linked to:
Kings of Leon album "Because of the Times"
subject linked to:
Kings of Leon album "Only by the Night"
subject linked to:
Kings of Leon album "Come Around Sundown"
subject linked to:
Kings of Leon album "Mechanical Bull"
subject linked to:
Kings of Leon album "Walls"