Michael League
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Michael League is an American bassist, composer, and bandleader best known as the founder and driving force behind the Grammy-winning jazz-fusion collective Snarky Puppy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael League canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3905297 — 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: Michael League Context triple: [Snarky Puppy, foundedBy, Michael League]
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A.
Nick Andros
Nick Andros is a deaf-mute drifter who becomes one of the central, morally grounded leaders in Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic novel "The Stand."
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B.
Mikey Walsh
Mikey Walsh is the adventurous young leader of the group of kids in the 1985 cult classic film "The Goonies."
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C.
Lyle Wynant
Lyle Wynant is a central character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Players," around whom much of the book’s exploration of urban alienation and modern disconnection revolves.
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D.
Christian Adams
Christian Adams is the younger brother of English fashion designer and former Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham.
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E.
Steve Martino
Steve Martino is an American film director best known for his work on animated features such as "Horton Hears a Who!" and "The Peanuts Movie."
- 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: Michael League Target entity description: Michael League is an American bassist, composer, and bandleader best known as the founder and driving force behind the Grammy-winning jazz-fusion collective Snarky Puppy.
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A.
Nick Andros
Nick Andros is a deaf-mute drifter who becomes one of the central, morally grounded leaders in Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic novel "The Stand."
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B.
Mikey Walsh
Mikey Walsh is the adventurous young leader of the group of kids in the 1985 cult classic film "The Goonies."
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C.
Lyle Wynant
Lyle Wynant is a central character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Players," around whom much of the book’s exploration of urban alienation and modern disconnection revolves.
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D.
Christian Adams
Christian Adams is the younger brother of English fashion designer and former Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham.
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E.
Steve Martino
Steve Martino is an American film director best known for his work on animated features such as "Horton Hears a Who!" and "The Peanuts Movie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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bandleader ⓘ bassist ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activity |
collaborating with jazz and world-music musicians
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producing albums for various artists ⓘ touring internationally with Snarky Puppy ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bokanté
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GroundUP Music ⓘ Snarky Puppy ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| bandleaderOf | Snarky Puppy ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| founderOf |
GroundUP Music
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Snarky Puppy ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
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jazz ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| hasCreativeRole |
arranger
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musical director ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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double bass ⓘ electric bass ⓘ guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Snarky Puppy ⓘ |
| name | Michael League ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
founding Grammy-winning jazz-fusion collective Snarky Puppy
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linked to:
Snarky Puppy
|
| notableWork | Snarky Puppy ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
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bassist ⓘ composer ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| recordLabel | GroundUP Music ⓘ |
| roleIn |
primary composer for Snarky Puppy
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producer for Snarky Puppy recordings ⓘ |
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: Michael League Description of subject: Michael League is an American bassist, composer, and bandleader best known as the founder and driving force behind the Grammy-winning jazz-fusion collective Snarky Puppy.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.