Pavement
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Pavement is an influential American indie rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and major impact on 1990s alternative music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pavement canonical | 74 |
| Pavement discography | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T589957 — 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: Pavement Context triple: [Drag City, hasArtist, Pavement]
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A.
Against the Day
Against the Day is a sprawling, genre-blending historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, weaving together adventure, science, politics, and metaphysical speculation.
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B.
Gaslight Anthem
Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Jersey known for its heartland punk sound, blue-collar storytelling, and frequent comparisons to Bruce Springsteen.
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C.
Chief Weasel
Chief Weasel is a villainous, scheming weasel who leads a gang of stoats and weasels in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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D.
Green Day
Green Day is an American punk rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for popularizing pop-punk worldwide with albums like "Dookie" and "American Idiot."
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E.
Calexico
Calexico is a small border city in California’s Imperial Valley, directly adjacent to Mexicali, known for its strong cross-border cultural and economic ties with Mexico.
- 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: Pavement Target entity description: Pavement is an influential American indie rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and major impact on 1990s alternative music.
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A.
Against the Day
Against the Day is a sprawling, genre-blending historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, weaving together adventure, science, politics, and metaphysical speculation.
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B.
Gaslight Anthem
Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Jersey known for its heartland punk sound, blue-collar storytelling, and frequent comparisons to Bruce Springsteen.
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C.
Chief Weasel
Chief Weasel is a villainous, scheming weasel who leads a gang of stoats and weasels in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
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D.
Green Day
Green Day is an American punk rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for popularizing pop-punk worldwide with albums like "Dookie" and "American Idiot."
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E.
Calexico
Calexico is a small border city in California’s Imperial Valley, directly adjacent to Mexicali, known for its strong cross-border cultural and economic ties with Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American rock band
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indie rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1999 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1989 ⓘ |
| album |
Brighten the Corners
ⓘ
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain ⓘ Slanted and Enchanted ⓘ Terror Twilight ⓘ Wowee Zowee ⓘ |
| albumReleaseYear |
Brighten the Corners – 1997
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Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – 1994 ⓘ Slanted and Enchanted – 1992 ⓘ Terror Twilight – 1999 ⓘ Wowee Zowee – 1995 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Silver Jews
ⓘ
Spiral Stairs ⓘ Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed by music critics ⓘ |
| culturalStatus |
cult band
ⓘ
influential indie band ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Slanted and Enchanted ⓘ |
| formedIn | 1989 ⓘ |
| formerMember | Gary Young ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ lo-fi ⓘ noise rock ⓘ slacker rock ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Bob Nastanovich – percussion and vocals
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Gary Young – drums ⓘ Mark Ibold – bass guitar ⓘ Scott Kannberg – guitar and vocals ⓘ Stephen Malkmus – lead vocals and guitar ⓘ Steve West – drums ⓘ |
| influenced |
alternative rock of the 1990s
ⓘ
indie rock of the 1990s ⓘ |
| member |
Bob Nastanovich
ⓘ
Mark Ibold ⓘ Scott Kannberg ⓘ Stephen Malkmus ⓘ Steve West ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on 1990s alternative music
ⓘ
lo-fi sound ⓘ offbeat lyrics ⓘ |
| origin |
Stockton, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Stockton
|
| recordLabel |
Domino Recording Company
ⓘ
Matador Records ⓘ |
| reunitedIn |
2010
ⓘ
2022 ⓘ |
| song |
Cut Your Hair
ⓘ
Gold Soundz ⓘ Range Life ⓘ Shady Lane ⓘ Stereo ⓘ |
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: Pavement Description of subject: Pavement is an influential American indie rock band, formed in the late 1980s, known for its lo-fi sound, offbeat lyrics, and major impact on 1990s alternative music.
Referenced by (77)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pavement
linked to: Pavement
linked to: Pavement
subject linked to:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – 1994
subject linked to:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – 1994
subject linked to:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – 1994