The Shins – Simple Song (music video)
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The Shins – Simple Song (music video) is a visually inventive, narrative-driven music video directed by acclaimed filmmaker Hiro Murai, known for its offbeat storytelling and emotionally resonant imagery.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simple Song (The Shins music video) | 1 |
| The Shins videography | 1 |
| The Shins – Simple Song (music video) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10872643 — 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: The Shins – Simple Song (music video) Context triple: [Hiro Murai, notableWork, The Shins – Simple Song (music video)]
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A.
Radio Song (music video)
"Radio Song (music video)" is the official visual accompaniment to Esperanza Spalding’s track from her jazz-influenced album "Radio Music Society," blending narrative and performance elements to reflect the record’s contemporary, genre-crossing style.
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B.
Buddy Holly (Weezer music video)
"Buddy Holly" is a 1994 Weezer music video, styled as an episode of the TV show Happy Days, that became iconic for its innovative retro concept and heavy MTV rotation.
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C.
D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) music video
The "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" music video is the gritty, noir-style visual accompaniment to Jay-Z’s 2009 single criticizing the overuse of Auto-Tune in hip-hop.
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D.
Yellow (music video)
"Yellow (music video)" is the atmospheric, one-take seaside video directed by James & Alex for Coldplay’s song "Yellow," featuring Chris Martin walking alone along a beach at dawn.
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E.
El Farsante (music video)
"El Farsante (music video)" is the official visual accompaniment to Ozuna’s hit reggaeton track, featuring cinematic storytelling that dramatizes the song’s themes of heartbreak and regret.
- 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: The Shins – Simple Song (music video) Target entity description: The Shins – Simple Song (music video) is a visually inventive, narrative-driven music video directed by acclaimed filmmaker Hiro Murai, known for its offbeat storytelling and emotionally resonant imagery.
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A.
Radio Song (music video)
"Radio Song (music video)" is the official visual accompaniment to Esperanza Spalding’s track from her jazz-influenced album "Radio Music Society," blending narrative and performance elements to reflect the record’s contemporary, genre-crossing style.
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B.
Buddy Holly (Weezer music video)
"Buddy Holly" is a 1994 Weezer music video, styled as an episode of the TV show Happy Days, that became iconic for its innovative retro concept and heavy MTV rotation.
-
C.
D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) music video
The "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" music video is the gritty, noir-style visual accompaniment to Jay-Z’s 2009 single criticizing the overuse of Auto-Tune in hip-hop.
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D.
Yellow (music video)
"Yellow (music video)" is the atmospheric, one-take seaside video directed by James & Alex for Coldplay’s song "Yellow," featuring Chris Martin walking alone along a beach at dawn.
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E.
El Farsante (music video)
"El Farsante (music video)" is the official visual accompaniment to Ozuna’s hit reggaeton track, featuring cinematic storytelling that dramatizes the song’s themes of heartbreak and regret.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music video
ⓘ
short film ⓘ |
| artist | The Shins ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
The Shins – Simple Song (single)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shins
|
| basedOnSong | Simple Song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Hiro Murai ⓘ |
| directorNationality | Japanese-American ⓘ |
| directorNotableFor |
music videos for Childish Gambino
ⓘ
television series Atlanta ⓘ |
| directorStyle | Hiro Murai’s offbeat visual storytelling ⓘ |
| distributionPlatform | YouTube ⓘ |
| features | ensemble cast ⓘ |
| featuresArtist |
James Mercer
ⓘ
linked to:
James Mercer (musician)
|
| genre | indie rock music video ⓘ |
| hasFormat | color ⓘ |
| hasLength | short-form ⓘ |
| hasMood |
bittersweet
ⓘ
nostalgic ⓘ whimsical ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family dynamics
ⓘ
inheritance ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | online video ⓘ |
| musicGenre | indie rock ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
narrative-driven
ⓘ
offbeat storytelling ⓘ |
| notableFor |
emotionally resonant imagery
ⓘ
visually inventive imagery ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Shins videography
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shins – Simple Song (music video)
|
| performer | The Shins ⓘ |
| productionType | live-action ⓘ |
| releaseContext | promotion of The Shins album Port of Morrow ⓘ |
| title | Simple Song ⓘ |
| uses |
practical effects
ⓘ
single-location house setting ⓘ surreal visual gags ⓘ |
| visualStyle | visually inventive ⓘ |
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: The Shins – Simple Song (music video) Description of subject: The Shins – Simple Song (music video) is a visually inventive, narrative-driven music video directed by acclaimed filmmaker Hiro Murai, known for its offbeat storytelling and emotionally resonant imagery.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Shins – Simple Song (music video)
linked to: The Shins – Simple Song (music video)