Matthew Good
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Matthew Good is a Canadian rock musician and singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the Matthew Good Band and for his politically charged, alternative rock music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matthew Good canonical | 3 |
| Matthew Good Band | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3589337 — 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 Good Context triple: [Good, hasNotableBearer, Matthew Good]
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A.
Cam Guthrie
Cam Guthrie is a Canadian politician best known as the long-serving mayor of the city of Guelph, Ontario.
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B.
M. Ward
M. Ward is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his indie folk sound and collaborations in projects like She & Him and Monsters of Folk.
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C.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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D.
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is an American indie folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his virtuosic violin playing, distinctive whistling, and literate, genre-blending compositions.
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E.
Ben Harper
Ben Harper is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for blending folk, blues, rock, and reggae influences in his music.
- 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 Good Target entity description: Matthew Good is a Canadian rock musician and singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the Matthew Good Band and for his politically charged, alternative rock music.
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A.
Cam Guthrie
Cam Guthrie is a Canadian politician best known as the long-serving mayor of the city of Guelph, Ontario.
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B.
M. Ward
M. Ward is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his indie folk sound and collaborations in projects like She & Him and Monsters of Folk.
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C.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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D.
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is an American indie folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his virtuosic violin playing, distinctive whistling, and literate, genre-blending compositions.
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E.
Ben Harper
Ben Harper is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for blending folk, blues, rock, and reggae influences in his music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian musician
ⓘ
human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Matthew Good Band
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linked to:
Matthew Good
solo career ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| familyName | Good ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music
ⓘ
songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Matthew ⓘ |
| hasPart |
discography as solo artist
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discography with Matthew Good Band ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Matthew Good ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
politically charged lyrics
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socially conscious themes ⓘ |
| notableGenrePeriod | 1990s Canadian alternative rock scene ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Matthew Good Band
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linked to:
Matthew Good
|
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | frontman of Matthew Good Band ⓘ |
| vocalType | lead vocals ⓘ |
| workFocus |
alternative rock songwriting
ⓘ
political commentary in music ⓘ |
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 Good Description of subject: Matthew Good is a Canadian rock musician and singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the Matthew Good Band and for his politically charged, alternative rock music.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Matthew Good
linked to: Matthew Good