Selway
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Selway is an English surname most notably associated with Philip Selway, the drummer of the rock band Radiohead.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selway canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9375229 — 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: Selway Context triple: [Philip Selway, familyName, Selway]
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A.
Necanicum River
The Necanicum River is a coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through Clatsop County to the Pacific Ocean near the city of Seaside.
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B.
Mendenhall River
The Mendenhall River is a glacially fed river in Juneau, Alaska, that flows from Mendenhall Lake toward the Gastineau Channel.
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C.
Lolo River
The Lolo River is a significant river in Gabon that feeds into the larger Ogooué River system.
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D.
Chilko River
The Chilko River is a major glacial-fed river in British Columbia, Canada, known for its wild, remote watershed, important salmon runs, and scenic role within the Chilcotin and Coast Mountains region.
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E.
Madison River
The Madison River is a renowned trout-fishing and whitewater river in Wyoming and Montana that forms one of the three headwaters of the Missouri River.
- 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: Selway Target entity description: Selway is an English surname most notably associated with Philip Selway, the drummer of the rock band Radiohead.
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A.
Necanicum River
The Necanicum River is a coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through Clatsop County to the Pacific Ocean near the city of Seaside.
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B.
Mendenhall River
The Mendenhall River is a glacially fed river in Juneau, Alaska, that flows from Mendenhall Lake toward the Gastineau Channel.
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C.
Lolo River
The Lolo River is a significant river in Gabon that feeds into the larger Ogooué River system.
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D.
Chilko River
The Chilko River is a major glacial-fed river in British Columbia, Canada, known for its wild, remote watershed, important salmon runs, and scenic role within the Chilcotin and Coast Mountains region.
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E.
Madison River
The Madison River is a renowned trout-fishing and whitewater river in Wyoming and Montana that forms one of the three headwaters of the Missouri River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
rock band ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Selway ⓘ |
| hasMember | Philip Selway ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Philip Selway ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Radiohead ⓘ |
| 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: Selway Description of subject: Selway is an English surname most notably associated with Philip Selway, the drummer of the rock band Radiohead.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.