US Maple
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US Maple is an American experimental rock band known for its deconstructed, dissonant approach to rock music and releases on the indie label Drag City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US Maple canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T589967 — 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: US Maple Context triple: [Drag City, hasArtist, US Maple]
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A.
Sugar maple
The sugar maple is a large, long-lived North American hardwood tree renowned for its brilliant fall foliage and as the primary source of maple syrup.
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B.
Maple, Ontario, Canada
Maple, Ontario, Canada is a suburban community in the city of Vaughan, north of Toronto, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to major urban amenities.
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C.
South Woods
South Woods is a wooded area within New York City's Central Park known for its naturalistic landscape and tranquil, forest-like setting.
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D.
Maple Leaf
Maple Leaf is an Amtrak intercity passenger train service that operates between New York City and Toronto, connecting major cities in New York State with southern Ontario.
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E.
Clinch Leatherwood
Clinch Leatherwood is the ruthless outlaw gunslinger who serves as the main antagonist in the comedy Western film "A Million Ways to Die in the West."
- 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: US Maple Target entity description: US Maple is an American experimental rock band known for its deconstructed, dissonant approach to rock music and releases on the indie label Drag City.
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A.
Sugar maple
The sugar maple is a large, long-lived North American hardwood tree renowned for its brilliant fall foliage and as the primary source of maple syrup.
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B.
Maple, Ontario, Canada
Maple, Ontario, Canada is a suburban community in the city of Vaughan, north of Toronto, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to major urban amenities.
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C.
South Woods
South Woods is a wooded area within New York City's Central Park known for its naturalistic landscape and tranquil, forest-like setting.
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D.
Maple Leaf
Maple Leaf is an Amtrak intercity passenger train service that operates between New York City and Toronto, connecting major cities in New York State with southern Ontario.
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E.
Clinch Leatherwood
Clinch Leatherwood is the ruthless outlaw gunslinger who serves as the main antagonist in the comedy Western film "A Million Ways to Die in the West."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American rock band
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experimental rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2007 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1995 ⓘ |
| album |
Acre Thrills
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Long Hair in Three Stages ⓘ Purple on Time ⓘ Sang Phat Editor ⓘ Talker ⓘ |
| albumReleaseYear |
Acre Thrills – 2001
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Long Hair in Three Stages – 1995 ⓘ Purple on Time – 2003 ⓘ Sang Phat Editor – 1997 ⓘ Talker – 1999 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Cheer-Accident
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Mercury Players ⓘ Shorty ⓘ Singer ⓘ |
| cityOfOrigin |
Chicago
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linked to:
City of Chicago
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| debutAlbum | Long Hair in Three Stages ⓘ |
| formedIn | 1995 ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde rock
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experimental rock ⓘ noise rock ⓘ post-rock ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Adam Vida
ⓘ
Al Johnson ⓘ Mark Shippy ⓘ Pat Sampson ⓘ Todd Rittmann ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.dragcity.com/artists/us-maple ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
abstract guitar work
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complex rhythms ⓘ fragmented vocals ⓘ unconventional song structures ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deconstructed approach to rock music
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dissonant sound ⓘ |
| notableLabel | Drag City ⓘ |
| occupationOfMember |
Adam Vida – drummer
ⓘ
Al Johnson – vocalist ⓘ Mark Shippy – guitarist ⓘ Pat Sampson – drummer ⓘ Todd Rittmann – guitarist ⓘ |
| partOfScene | Chicago underground rock scene ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Drag City ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | Illinois ⓘ |
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: US Maple Description of subject: US Maple is an American experimental rock band known for its deconstructed, dissonant approach to rock music and releases on the indie label Drag City.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.