Mark Mothersbaugh
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composer
film score composer
human
keyboardist
musician
record producer
singer-songwriter
television composer
Mark Mothersbaugh is an American composer, musician, and co-founder of the band Devo, known for his extensive work scoring films and television.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Mothersbaugh canonical | 89 |
| Mark Allen Mothersbaugh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597844 — 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: Mark Mothersbaugh Context triple: [The Lego Movie, composer, Mark Mothersbaugh]
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A.
Robby Mook
Robby Mook is an American political strategist best known for serving as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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B.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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C.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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D.
Steven Koop
Steven Koop is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the surname Koop, though no widely recognized public information about him is available.
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E.
Doug Koop
Doug Koop is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be associated with the surname Koop.
- 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: Mark Mothersbaugh Target entity description: Mark Mothersbaugh is an American composer, musician, and co-founder of the band Devo, known for his extensive work scoring films and television.
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A.
Robby Mook
Robby Mook is an American political strategist best known for serving as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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B.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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C.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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D.
Steven Koop
Steven Koop is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the surname Koop, though no widely recognized public information about him is available.
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E.
Doug Koop
Doug Koop is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be associated with the surname Koop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Devo ⓘ |
| birthName |
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh
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linked to:
Mark Mothersbaugh
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| coFounderOf | Devo ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-05-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Kent State University ⓘ |
| familyName | Mothersbaugh ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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new wave ⓘ rock ⓘ television score ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Bob Mothersbaugh
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Jim Mothersbaugh ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
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synthesizer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding the band Devo
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extensive work scoring films and television ⓘ |
| memberOf | Devo ⓘ |
| name | Mark Mothersbaugh ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | pioneering use of synthesizers in new wave music with Devo ⓘ |
| notableWork |
music for the television series "Big Love"
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music for the television series "Clifford the Big Red Dog" ⓘ music for the television series "Enlightened" ⓘ music for the television series "Pee-wee's Playhouse" ⓘ music for the television series "Rugrats" ⓘ score for the film "Bottle Rocket" ⓘ score for the film "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" ⓘ score for the film "Rushmore" ⓘ score for the film "The Lego Movie" ⓘ score for the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" ⓘ score for the film "The Royal Tenenbaums" ⓘ score for the film "Thor: Ragnarok" ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
film score composer ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Akron, Ohio, United States
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linked to:
Akron
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| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
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linked to:
Los Angeles
|
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: Mark Mothersbaugh Description of subject: Mark Mothersbaugh is an American composer, musician, and co-founder of the band Devo, known for his extensive work scoring films and television.
Referenced by (90)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
song "Everything Is Awesome"
linked to: Mark Mothersbaugh
subject linked to:
Everything is awesome
subject linked to:
Mothersbaugh
subject linked to:
The Last Man on Earth (TV series)
subject linked to:
Close Enough (TV series)