Alex James
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Alex James is an English musician and bassist best known as a member of the rock band Blur.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alex James canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10469383 — 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: Alex James Context triple: [Kevin & Perry Go Large, musicBy, Alex James]
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A.
Blake James
Blake James is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at major universities, including the University of Miami and later Boston College.
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B.
Trevor Jackson
Trevor Jackson is an American actor, singer, and songwriter known for his roles in television dramas and films as well as his R&B music career.
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C.
Justin Henry
Justin Henry is an American former child actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Billy Kramer in the film "Kramer vs. Kramer."
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D.
Jeremy King
Jeremy King is a prominent British restaurateur best known for co-founding some of London’s most iconic grand cafés and restaurants, including The Wolseley.
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E.
Josh James
Josh James is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of web analytics company Omniture.
- 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: Alex James Target entity description: Alex James is an English musician and bassist best known as a member of the rock band Blur.
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A.
Blake James
Blake James is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at major universities, including the University of Miami and later Boston College.
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B.
Trevor Jackson
Trevor Jackson is an American actor, singer, and songwriter known for his roles in television dramas and films as well as his R&B music career.
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C.
Justin Henry
Justin Henry is an American former child actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Billy Kramer in the film "Kramer vs. Kramer."
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D.
Jeremy King
Jeremy King is a prominent British restaurateur best known for co-founding some of London’s most iconic grand cafés and restaurants, including The Wolseley.
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E.
Josh James
Josh James is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of web analytics company Omniture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| birthName | Steven Alexander James ⓘ |
| citizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-11-21 ⓘ |
| employer | Blur ⓘ |
| familyName | James ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dairy farming
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ music ⓘ |
| genre |
Britpop
ⓘ
alternative rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName |
Alexander
ⓘ
Steven ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter (name not specified)
ⓘ
son (name not specified) ⓘ |
| hasMember | Alex James ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://alexjames.co.uk/ ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Blur ⓘ |
| name | Alex James ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the bassist of Blur ⓘ |
| notablePublication | Bit of a Blur ⓘ |
| notableWork |
13 (album)
ⓘ
Blur (album) ⓘ Parklife ⓘ The Great Escape ⓘ The Magic Whip ⓘ Think Tank ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
cheesemaker ⓘ columnist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Boscombe ⓘ |
| residence |
Cotswolds
ⓘ
Oxfordshire ⓘ |
| spouse | Claire Neate ⓘ |
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: Alex James Description of subject: Alex James is an English musician and bassist best known as a member of the rock band Blur.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.