David Pirner
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David Pirner is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Soul Asylum.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Pirner | 2 |
| David Pirner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8639997 — 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: David Pirner Context triple: [Chasing Amy, musicBy, David Pirner]
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A.
David Berman
David Berman was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and indie rock musician best known for founding and fronting the influential band Silver Jews.
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B.
Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
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C.
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band The Gaslight Anthem.
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D.
Mike Mogis
Mike Mogis is an American producer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the indie rock band Bright Eyes and numerous Saddle Creek Records artists.
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E.
Mike Skinner
Mike Skinner is an English musician and producer best known as the frontman and creative force behind the music project The Streets.
- 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: David Pirner Target entity description: David Pirner is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Soul Asylum.
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A.
David Berman
David Berman was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and indie rock musician best known for founding and fronting the influential band Silver Jews.
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B.
Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
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C.
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band The Gaslight Anthem.
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D.
Mike Mogis
Mike Mogis is an American producer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the indie rock band Bright Eyes and numerous Saddle Creek Records artists.
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E.
Mike Skinner
Mike Skinner is an English musician and producer best known as the frontman and creative force behind the music project The Streets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: David Pirner Description of subject: David Pirner is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Soul Asylum.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Pirner
subject linked to:
Soul Asylum – Grave Dancers Union (engineering/mixing on tracks)
linked to: David Pirner