Jim Mothersbaugh
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Jim Mothersbaugh is an American musician and former drummer best known for his early work with the new wave band Devo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim Mothersbaugh canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3579959 — 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: Jim Mothersbaugh Context triple: [Mark Mothersbaugh, hasSibling, Jim Mothersbaugh]
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A.
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh is an American composer, musician, and co-founder of the band Devo, known for his extensive work scoring films and television.
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B.
Bob Mothersbaugh
Bob Mothersbaugh is an American guitarist and vocalist best known as a founding member of the new wave band Devo.
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C.
Ed O’Brien
Ed O’Brien is an English guitarist and backing vocalist best known as a member of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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D.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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E.
Mike McGear
Mike McGear is a British musician, photographer, and comedian best known as Paul McCartney’s younger brother and a member of the satirical pop group The Scaffold.
- 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: Jim Mothersbaugh Target entity description: Jim Mothersbaugh is an American musician and former drummer best known for his early work with the new wave band Devo.
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A.
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh is an American composer, musician, and co-founder of the band Devo, known for his extensive work scoring films and television.
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B.
Bob Mothersbaugh
Bob Mothersbaugh is an American guitarist and vocalist best known as a founding member of the new wave band Devo.
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C.
Ed O’Brien
Ed O’Brien is an English guitarist and backing vocalist best known as a member of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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D.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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E.
Mike McGear
Mike McGear is a British musician, photographer, and comedian best known as Paul McCartney’s younger brother and a member of the satirical pop group The Scaffold.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1970s music scene ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | new wave ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Devo ⓘ |
| notableFor | early work with Devo ⓘ |
| notableWork | early recordings with Devo ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| partOf | early Devo lineup ⓘ |
| positionHeld | drummer of Devo ⓘ |
| sibling |
Bob Mothersbaugh
ⓘ
Mark Mothersbaugh ⓘ |
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: Jim Mothersbaugh Description of subject: Jim Mothersbaugh is an American musician and former drummer best known for his early work with the new wave band Devo.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.