Ben Massarella
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Ben Massarella is an American percussionist best known for his work with the indie rock band Modest Mouse and as a co-founder of the experimental label and project Perishable Records.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ben Massarella canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6976275 — 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: Ben Massarella Context triple: [Modest Mouse, member, Ben Massarella]
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A.
Anthony LoGerfo
Anthony LoGerfo is an American drummer best known for his work with Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, including tours and recordings with Neil Young.
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B.
Anthony Perrotti
Anthony Perrotti is a former Rutgers University wrestler best known for becoming the program’s first NCAA All-American in over a decade and helping elevate the Scarlet Knights wrestling program to national prominence.
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C.
Don Ierullo
Don Ierullo is a media entrepreneur best known for founding the global entertainment company Entertainment One.
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D.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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E.
Ray Ferraro
Ray Ferraro is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player and prominent NHL broadcaster known for his long playing career and work as a television analyst.
- 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: Ben Massarella Target entity description: Ben Massarella is an American percussionist best known for his work with the indie rock band Modest Mouse and as a co-founder of the experimental label and project Perishable Records.
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A.
Anthony LoGerfo
Anthony LoGerfo is an American drummer best known for his work with Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, including tours and recordings with Neil Young.
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B.
Anthony Perrotti
Anthony Perrotti is a former Rutgers University wrestler best known for becoming the program’s first NCAA All-American in over a decade and helping elevate the Scarlet Knights wrestling program to national prominence.
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C.
Don Ierullo
Don Ierullo is a media entrepreneur best known for founding the global entertainment company Entertainment One.
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D.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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E.
Ray Ferraro
Ray Ferraro is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player and prominent NHL broadcaster known for his long playing career and work as a television analyst.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American percussionist
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experimental music project ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ record label ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Modest Mouse
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Perishable Records ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| coFoundedBy | Ben Massarella ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Perishable Records ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | music ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental music
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indie rock ⓘ |
| instrument | percussion ⓘ |
| knownFor | work with Modest Mouse ⓘ |
| memberOf | Modest Mouse ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | recordings with Modest Mouse ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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percussionist ⓘ |
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: Ben Massarella Description of subject: Ben Massarella is an American percussionist best known for his work with the indie rock band Modest Mouse and as a co-founder of the experimental label and project Perishable Records.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.