David Yow
E421735
David Yow is an American musician best known as the intense and charismatic lead vocalist of the noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Yow canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4231765 — 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: David Yow Context triple: [The Jesus Lizard, member, David Yow]
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A.
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus is an American indie rock musician best known as the frontman of Pavement and a key figure in the 1990s lo-fi movement.
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B.
Mike Watt
Mike Watt is an influential American bassist and songwriter best known for his work with the punk band Minutemen and numerous other alternative rock projects.
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C.
Joey Santiago
Joey Santiago is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Pixies.
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D.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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E.
David Grubbs
David Grubbs is an American musician and composer known for his influential work in experimental rock and post-rock, particularly through projects like Gastr del Sol.
- 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: David Yow Target entity description: David Yow is an American musician best known as the intense and charismatic lead vocalist of the noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
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A.
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus is an American indie rock musician best known as the frontman of Pavement and a key figure in the 1990s lo-fi movement.
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B.
Mike Watt
Mike Watt is an influential American bassist and songwriter best known for his work with the punk band Minutemen and numerous other alternative rock projects.
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C.
Joey Santiago
Joey Santiago is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the influential alternative rock band Pixies.
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D.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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E.
David Grubbs
David Grubbs is an American musician and composer known for his influential work in experimental rock and post-rock, particularly through projects like Gastr del Sol.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: David Yow Description of subject: David Yow is an American musician best known as the intense and charismatic lead vocalist of the noise rock band The Jesus Lizard.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.