Jeff Matika – guitar, backing vocals
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Jeff Matika is a guitarist and backing vocalist best known for his work as a touring and session musician with punk rock bands, including Green Day.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeff Matika – guitar, backing vocals canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5192100 — 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: Jeff Matika – guitar, backing vocals Context triple: [Bullets EP, hasBandLineup, Jeff Matika – guitar, backing vocals]
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A.
Noodles – lead guitar, backing vocals
Noodles is the longtime lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the American punk rock band The Offspring, known for his energetic playing style and presence on their most popular albums.
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B.
Jason White (guitar)
Jason White is an American guitarist best known for his longtime association with the punk rock band Green Day as a touring and sometimes recording member.
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C.
Matt Hart (guitarist)
Matt Hart is an American guitarist best known for his work with the punk rock band Squirtgun.
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D.
Chris Shiflett
Chris Shiflett is an American guitarist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Foo Fighters and for his work in various punk and alt-country projects.
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E.
Ed Droste – vocals, guitar
Ed Droste is an American musician best known as a founding member, vocalist, and guitarist of the indie rock band Grizzly Bear.
- 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: Jeff Matika – guitar, backing vocals Target entity description: Jeff Matika is a guitarist and backing vocalist best known for his work as a touring and session musician with punk rock bands, including Green Day.
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A.
Noodles – lead guitar, backing vocals
Noodles is the longtime lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the American punk rock band The Offspring, known for his energetic playing style and presence on their most popular albums.
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B.
Jason White (guitar)
Jason White is an American guitarist best known for his longtime association with the punk rock band Green Day as a touring and sometimes recording member.
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C.
Matt Hart (guitarist)
Matt Hart is an American guitarist best known for his work with the punk rock band Squirtgun.
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D.
Chris Shiflett
Chris Shiflett is an American guitarist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Foo Fighters and for his work in various punk and alt-country projects.
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E.
Ed Droste – vocals, guitar
Ed Droste is an American musician best known as a founding member, vocalist, and guitarist of the indie rock band Grizzly Bear.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
backing vocalist
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Green Day ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Billie Joe Armstrong
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Mike Dirnt ⓘ Tré Cool ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork |
live performance
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music ⓘ recording session work ⓘ |
| genre | punk rock ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | live tours with Green Day ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting vocals in Green Day live shows
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touring work with Green Day ⓘ |
| occupation |
backing vocalist
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guitarist ⓘ session musician ⓘ touring musician ⓘ |
| roleInBand |
backing vocalist for Green Day
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touring guitarist for Green Day ⓘ |
| vocalType | backing vocals ⓘ |
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: Jeff Matika – guitar, backing vocals Description of subject: Jeff Matika is a guitarist and backing vocalist best known for his work as a touring and session musician with punk rock bands, including Green Day.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.