Steve West
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Steve West is an American drummer best known for his work with the influential indie rock band Pavement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve West canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3494978 — 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: Steve West Context triple: [Pavement, member, Steve West]
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A.
Duncan Kenworthy
Duncan Kenworthy is a British film and television producer best known for hit romantic comedies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill," and "Love Actually."
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B.
Ken Walters
Ken Walters is a distinguished scientist in the field of rheology, recognized for his influential research on the flow and deformation of complex fluids.
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C.
Glenn Slater
Glenn Slater is an American lyricist best known for his work on Broadway and film musicals, frequently partnering with composer Alan Menken on projects such as "The Little Mermaid" stage adaptation and "Tangled."
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D.
Warren E. Miller
Warren E. Miller was a pioneering American political scientist best known for his foundational work in the study of voting behavior and public opinion, particularly through the American National Election Studies.
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E.
Deane Taylor
Deane Taylor is an Australian production designer and art director best known for shaping the distinctive gothic visual style of Tim Burton’s animated film "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
- 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: Steve West Target entity description: Steve West is an American drummer best known for his work with the influential indie rock band Pavement.
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A.
Duncan Kenworthy
Duncan Kenworthy is a British film and television producer best known for hit romantic comedies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill," and "Love Actually."
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B.
Ken Walters
Ken Walters is a distinguished scientist in the field of rheology, recognized for his influential research on the flow and deformation of complex fluids.
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C.
Glenn Slater
Glenn Slater is an American lyricist best known for his work on Broadway and film musicals, frequently partnering with composer Alan Menken on projects such as "The Little Mermaid" stage adaptation and "Tangled."
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D.
Warren E. Miller
Warren E. Miller was a pioneering American political scientist best known for his foundational work in the study of voting behavior and public opinion, particularly through the American National Election Studies.
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E.
Deane Taylor
Deane Taylor is an Australian production designer and art director best known for shaping the distinctive gothic visual style of Tim Burton’s animated film "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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rock band ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | indie rock ⓘ |
| instrument | drums ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pavement ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | work with Pavement ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
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: Steve West Description of subject: Steve West is an American drummer best known for his work with the influential indie rock band Pavement.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – 1994
subject linked to:
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – 1994