Shawn Pelton
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Shawn Pelton is an American drummer and session musician best known for his long-running role as the house drummer for the Saturday Night Live Band.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shawn Pelton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8842804 — 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: Shawn Pelton Context triple: [Saturday Night Live Band, hasMember, Shawn Pelton]
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A.
Shawn Horcoff
Shawn Horcoff is a former NHL center, best known for his long tenure with the Edmonton Oilers, who transitioned into hockey management after retiring as a player.
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B.
Shawn Eckhardt
Shawn Eckhardt was a key figure in the 1994 figure skating scandal involving the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, portrayed as a central character in the film "I, Tonya."
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C.
Shawn Estes
Shawn Estes is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher best known for his successful tenure with the San Francisco Giants in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
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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E.
Shawn Patterson
Shawn Patterson is an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on film and television scores, including the hit song "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie.
- 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: Shawn Pelton Target entity description: Shawn Pelton is an American drummer and session musician best known for his long-running role as the house drummer for the Saturday Night Live Band.
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A.
Shawn Horcoff
Shawn Horcoff is a former NHL center, best known for his long tenure with the Edmonton Oilers, who transitioned into hockey management after retiring as a player.
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B.
Shawn Eckhardt
Shawn Eckhardt was a key figure in the 1994 figure skating scandal involving the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, portrayed as a central character in the film "I, Tonya."
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C.
Shawn Estes
Shawn Estes is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher best known for his successful tenure with the San Francisco Giants in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
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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E.
Shawn Patterson
Shawn Patterson is an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on film and television scores, including the hit song "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activeIn |
live performance
ⓘ
studio recording ⓘ television music ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Saturday Night Live Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drumming
ⓘ
music ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| hasRole |
house band member
ⓘ
television show band member ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ |
| knownFor | house drummer for the Saturday Night Live Band ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | performances on Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Shawn Pelton Description of subject: Shawn Pelton is an American drummer and session musician best known for his long-running role as the house drummer for the Saturday Night Live Band.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.