The Decemberists
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The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, known for their literary lyrics, narrative-driven songs, and eclectic folk-influenced sound.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Decemberists canonical | 14 |
| Her Majesty the Decemberists | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7726953 — 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: The Decemberists Context triple: [Sara Watkins, hasCollaboratedWith, The Decemberists]
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A.
Band of Horses
Band of Horses is an American indie rock band known for its atmospheric sound, emotive lyrics, and albums like "Everything All the Time" and "Cease to Begin."
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B.
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are an American indie folk band known for their rich vocal harmonies, pastoral lyrics, and intricate, acoustic-driven arrangements.
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C.
Belle and Sebastian
Belle and Sebastian is a Scottish indie pop band known for its literate lyrics, gentle melodies, and influential role in the 1990s and 2000s indie music scene.
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D.
The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers are an American folk-rock band known for their heartfelt songwriting, close harmonies, and blending of bluegrass, country, and indie rock influences.
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E.
Of Monsters and Men
Of Monsters and Men is an Icelandic indie folk/pop band best known for their hit single "Little Talks" and their atmospheric, narrative-driven songs.
- 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: The Decemberists Target entity description: The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, known for their literary lyrics, narrative-driven songs, and eclectic folk-influenced sound.
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A.
Band of Horses
Band of Horses is an American indie rock band known for its atmospheric sound, emotive lyrics, and albums like "Everything All the Time" and "Cease to Begin."
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B.
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are an American indie folk band known for their rich vocal harmonies, pastoral lyrics, and intricate, acoustic-driven arrangements.
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C.
Belle and Sebastian
Belle and Sebastian is a Scottish indie pop band known for its literate lyrics, gentle melodies, and influential role in the 1990s and 2000s indie music scene.
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D.
The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers are an American folk-rock band known for their heartfelt songwriting, close harmonies, and blending of bluegrass, country, and indie rock influences.
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E.
Of Monsters and Men
Of Monsters and Men is an Icelandic indie folk/pop band best known for their hit single "Little Talks" and their atmospheric, narrative-driven songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: The Decemberists Description of subject: The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, known for their literary lyrics, narrative-driven songs, and eclectic folk-influenced sound.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brad Klausen (design contribution)
subject linked to:
Brad Klausen (design contribution)
linked to: The Decemberists
subject linked to:
Kill Rock Stars (with Sleater-Kinney)