Where’s the Orchestra?
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"Where’s the Orchestra?" is a reflective, orchestral-style closing song by Billy Joel from his 1982 album *The Nylon Curtain*, noted for its melancholy tone and theatrical, Broadway-influenced arrangement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Where’s the Orchestra? canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12905850 — 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: Where’s the Orchestra? Context triple: [The Nylon Curtain, hasTrack, Where’s the Orchestra?]
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A.
Images pour orchestre
Images pour orchestre is an impressionistic orchestral suite by Claude Debussy that evokes vivid musical landscapes through rich color and innovative orchestration.
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B.
Concert sans orchestre
Concert sans orchestre is an alternative title for Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14, a virtuosic Romantic-era work for solo piano.
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C.
Orchestra, Inc.
Orchestra, Inc. is a software development company best known for creating the popular email client application Mailbox.
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D.
A Symphony of Three Orchestras
A Symphony of Three Orchestras is a complex, late-20th-century orchestral work by Elliott Carter that showcases his intricate rhythmic language and spatially separated ensembles.
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E.
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 is a 1945 orchestral work by Benjamin Britten that introduces and showcases the instruments of the symphony orchestra through a set of variations and a fugue on a theme by Henry Purcell.
- 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: Where’s the Orchestra? Target entity description: "Where’s the Orchestra?" is a reflective, orchestral-style closing song by Billy Joel from his 1982 album *The Nylon Curtain*, noted for its melancholy tone and theatrical, Broadway-influenced arrangement.
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A.
Images pour orchestre
Images pour orchestre is an impressionistic orchestral suite by Claude Debussy that evokes vivid musical landscapes through rich color and innovative orchestration.
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B.
Concert sans orchestre
Concert sans orchestre is an alternative title for Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14, a virtuosic Romantic-era work for solo piano.
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C.
Orchestra, Inc.
Orchestra, Inc. is a software development company best known for creating the popular email client application Mailbox.
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D.
A Symphony of Three Orchestras
A Symphony of Three Orchestras is a complex, late-20th-century orchestral work by Elliott Carter that showcases his intricate rhythmic language and spatially separated ensembles.
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E.
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 is a 1945 orchestral work by Benjamin Britten that introduces and showcases the instruments of the symphony orchestra through a set of variations and a fugue on a theme by Henry Purcell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| albumSequencePosition | closing track ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Billy Joel live performances ⓘ |
| composer | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| genre |
orchestral pop
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
brass
ⓘ
orchestral arrangement ⓘ piano ⓘ strings ⓘ woodwinds ⓘ |
| hasType | album track ⓘ |
| includedIn | Billy Joel discography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
disillusionment
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reflection ⓘ theatrical metaphor ⓘ |
| lyricist | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| medium | studio recording ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
Broadway-influenced
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orchestral-style ballad ⓘ theatrical ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
Broadway-style arrangement
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melancholic mood ⓘ serves as reflective closing song on The Nylon Curtain ⓘ storytelling lyrics ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | The Nylon Curtain ⓘ |
| performer | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| publisher | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Billy Joel ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| tone | melancholy ⓘ |
| vocalist | Billy Joel ⓘ |
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: Where’s the Orchestra? Description of subject: "Where’s the Orchestra?" is a reflective, orchestral-style closing song by Billy Joel from his 1982 album *The Nylon Curtain*, noted for its melancholy tone and theatrical, Broadway-influenced arrangement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.