Steve Scales
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Steve Scales is an American percussionist best known for his work with Talking Heads and related projects in the early 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Scales canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6283699 — 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 Scales Context triple: [Tom Tom Club, hasMember, Steve Scales]
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A.
Steve Traxler
Steve Traxler is a theater and film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed stage and screen versions of "August: Osage County."
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B.
Steve Franks
Steve Franks is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known as the creator of the television series "Psych" and for co-writing the Adam Sandler film "Big Daddy."
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C.
Kirk Stievely
Kirk Stievely is a British actor best known as the former husband of actress Victoria Tennant.
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D.
Steve Blass
Steve Blass is a former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher best known for his standout role in their 1971 World Series championship and his long tenure as a team broadcaster.
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E.
Ed Vargo
Ed Vargo was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the National League for over two decades and officiated multiple World Series and All-Star Games.
- 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 Scales Target entity description: Steve Scales is an American percussionist best known for his work with Talking Heads and related projects in the early 1980s.
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A.
Steve Traxler
Steve Traxler is a theater and film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed stage and screen versions of "August: Osage County."
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B.
Steve Franks
Steve Franks is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known as the creator of the television series "Psych" and for co-writing the Adam Sandler film "Big Daddy."
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C.
Kirk Stievely
Kirk Stievely is a British actor best known as the former husband of actress Victoria Tennant.
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D.
Steve Blass
Steve Blass is a former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher best known for his standout role in their 1971 World Series championship and his long tenure as a team broadcaster.
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E.
Ed Vargo
Ed Vargo was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the National League for over two decades and officiated multiple World Series and All-Star Games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American percussionist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Talking Heads
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Tom Tom Club ⓘ |
| collaboration |
performed with Talking Heads in concert
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performed with Tom Tom Club ⓘ
linked to:
Tom Tom Club
|
| countryOfWork | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
live performance
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popular music ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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new wave music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| instrument |
bongos
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congas ⓘ percussion ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notability | best known for his work with Talking Heads and related projects in the early 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork | work with Talking Heads ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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percussionist ⓘ |
| role | touring percussionist for Talking Heads ⓘ |
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 Scales Description of subject: Steve Scales is an American percussionist best known for his work with Talking Heads and related projects in the early 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.