Jim Macpherson
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Jim Macpherson is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Breeders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Macpherson canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4213661 — 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: Jim Macpherson Context triple: [The Breeders, hasMember, Jim Macpherson]
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A.
James Anthony Carmichael
James Anthony Carmichael is an American record producer and arranger best known for his work with Motown artists such as Commodores and Lionel Richie.
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B.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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C.
John Macpherson
John Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who briefly served as acting Governor-General of Bengal in the late 18th century.
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D.
David Munro
David Munro is a filmmaker best known for directing the documentary "Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia," which exposed the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime to international audiences.
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E.
Henry MacRae
Henry MacRae was an early 20th-century American film producer and director known for his work on serials and genre films at Universal Pictures.
- 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: Jim Macpherson Target entity description: Jim Macpherson is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Breeders.
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A.
James Anthony Carmichael
James Anthony Carmichael is an American record producer and arranger best known for his work with Motown artists such as Commodores and Lionel Richie.
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B.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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C.
John Macpherson
John Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who briefly served as acting Governor-General of Bengal in the late 18th century.
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D.
David Munro
David Munro is a filmmaker best known for directing the documentary "Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia," which exposed the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime to international audiences.
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E.
Henry MacRae
Henry MacRae was an early 20th-century American film producer and director known for his work on serials and genre films at Universal Pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ rock musician ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Breeders ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| knownFor | work with The Breeders ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Breeders ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| playsInstrument | drums ⓘ |
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: Jim Macpherson Description of subject: Jim Macpherson is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Breeders.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Last Splash (1993)
subject linked to:
All Nerve (2018)
subject linked to:
Last Splash achieved platinum status in the United States