Barrel of a Gun
E1045238
"Barrel of a Gun" is a dark, industrial-influenced 1997 single by English electronic band Depeche Mode that marked their return after a turbulent period for the group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barrel of a Gun canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13524619 — 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: Barrel of a Gun Context triple: [Depeche Mode, notableSong, Barrel of a Gun]
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Lewis gun
The Lewis gun is a distinctive World War I–era air-cooled, drum-fed light machine gun widely used by British and Commonwealth forces in infantry and aircraft roles.
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B.
The Barrel of a Gun
"The Barrel of a Gun" is a political study by South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar Ruth First that examines the role of military coups and armed force in post-colonial African states.
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C.
Fussilat
Fussilat is the 41st chapter of the Qur’an, known for its detailed exposition of divine revelation, signs in creation, and the consequences of accepting or rejecting the message.
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D.
Carabina
Carabina is the surname of Harry Christopher Carabina, better known as the American sportscaster Harry Caray.
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E.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is the 1974 debut studio album by American funk and soul band the Commodores, known for its energetic instrumental title track and establishing the group's signature sound.
- 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: Barrel of a Gun Target entity description: "Barrel of a Gun" is a dark, industrial-influenced 1997 single by English electronic band Depeche Mode that marked their return after a turbulent period for the group.
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A.
Lewis gun
The Lewis gun is a distinctive World War I–era air-cooled, drum-fed light machine gun widely used by British and Commonwealth forces in infantry and aircraft roles.
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B.
The Barrel of a Gun
"The Barrel of a Gun" is a political study by South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar Ruth First that examines the role of military coups and armed force in post-colonial African states.
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C.
Fussilat
Fussilat is the 41st chapter of the Qur’an, known for its detailed exposition of divine revelation, signs in creation, and the consequences of accepting or rejecting the message.
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D.
Carabina
Carabina is the surname of Harry Christopher Carabina, better known as the American sportscaster Harry Caray.
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E.
Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" is the 1974 debut studio album by American funk and soul band the Commodores, known for its energetic instrumental title track and establishing the group's signature sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Barrel of a Gun Description of subject: "Barrel of a Gun" is a dark, industrial-influenced 1997 single by English electronic band Depeche Mode that marked their return after a turbulent period for the group.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.