Spiral Stairs
E362301
Spiral Stairs is the stage name of Scott Kannberg, an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Pavement and for his subsequent solo work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spiral Stairs canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3495001 — 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: Spiral Stairs Context triple: [Pavement, associatedAct, Spiral Stairs]
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A.
Cordonata staircase
The Cordonata staircase is a gently sloping monumental ramp in Rome designed by Michelangelo to provide a grand processional approach to the Capitoline Hill.
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B.
Giant Stairway
The Giant Stairway is a steep walking track in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that descends from the Three Sisters near Echo Point into the Jamison Valley via hundreds of steps and ladders.
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C.
Potemkin Stairs
Potemkin Stairs is a monumental 19th-century seaside staircase in Odesa, Ukraine, famed as a symbol of the city and for its iconic appearance in Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Battleship Potemkin."
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D.
Stiege
Stiege is a small village in the Harz region of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, now part of the town of Oberharz am Brocken.
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E.
Librarian’s Service Staircase
The Librarian’s Service Staircase is an internal, staff-oriented stairway within the Library of Congress’s historic Thomas Jefferson Building, used to access and support its library operations.
- 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: Spiral Stairs Target entity description: Spiral Stairs is the stage name of Scott Kannberg, an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Pavement and for his subsequent solo work.
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A.
Cordonata staircase
The Cordonata staircase is a gently sloping monumental ramp in Rome designed by Michelangelo to provide a grand processional approach to the Capitoline Hill.
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B.
Giant Stairway
The Giant Stairway is a steep walking track in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that descends from the Three Sisters near Echo Point into the Jamison Valley via hundreds of steps and ladders.
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C.
Potemkin Stairs
Potemkin Stairs is a monumental 19th-century seaside staircase in Odesa, Ukraine, famed as a symbol of the city and for its iconic appearance in Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Battleship Potemkin."
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D.
Stiege
Stiege is a small village in the Harz region of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, now part of the town of Oberharz am Brocken.
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E.
Librarian’s Service Staircase
The Librarian’s Service Staircase is an internal, staff-oriented stairway within the Library of Congress’s historic Thomas Jefferson Building, used to access and support its library operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
indie rock band ⓘ stage name ⓘ |
| activeInGenre | indie rock scene ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Spiral Stairs ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ |
| hasCreativeRole |
guitarist in Pavement
ⓘ
songwriter in Pavement ⓘ |
| hasPart | solo career ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pavement ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
membership in Pavement
ⓘ
solo albums ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| realName | Scott Kannberg ⓘ |
| role | founding member of Pavement ⓘ |
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: Spiral Stairs Description of subject: Spiral Stairs is the stage name of Scott Kannberg, an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Pavement and for his subsequent solo work.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Scott Kannberg