Shane Shanahan
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Shane Shanahan is an American percussionist known for his work in world and contemporary music ensembles, including collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shane Shanahan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7724874 — 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: Shane Shanahan Context triple: [Off the Map, hasContributor, Shane Shanahan]
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A.
Shawn Maurer
Shawn Maurer is a film cinematographer known for his work on parody and comedy movies, including the spoof film "Disaster Movie."
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B.
Shane Hazen
Shane Hazen is a film editor known for his work on Terrence Malick’s romantic drama "To the Wonder."
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C.
Michael Nolin
Michael Nolin is an American film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed music drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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D.
Steve Mirkovich
Steve Mirkovich is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the teen slasher hit "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
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E.
Mike O’Shea
Mike O’Shea is a Canadian football coach and former linebacker best known for leading the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to multiple Grey Cup championships in the CFL.
- 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: Shane Shanahan Target entity description: Shane Shanahan is an American percussionist known for his work in world and contemporary music ensembles, including collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble.
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A.
Shawn Maurer
Shawn Maurer is a film cinematographer known for his work on parody and comedy movies, including the spoof film "Disaster Movie."
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B.
Shane Hazen
Shane Hazen is a film editor known for his work on Terrence Malick’s romantic drama "To the Wonder."
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C.
Michael Nolin
Michael Nolin is an American film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed music drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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D.
Steve Mirkovich
Steve Mirkovich is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the teen slasher hit "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
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E.
Mike O’Shea
Mike O’Shea is a Canadian football coach and former linebacker best known for leading the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to multiple Grey Cup championships in the CFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American percussionist
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musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| collaboratedWith | Yo-Yo Ma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
contemporary music
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world music ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary classical music
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world music ⓘ |
| knownFor | collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble ⓘ |
| memberOf | Silkroad Ensemble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | percussionist ⓘ |
| playsInstrument | percussion ⓘ |
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: Shane Shanahan Description of subject: Shane Shanahan is an American percussionist known for his work in world and contemporary music ensembles, including collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.