Shadows and Tall Trees
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"Shadows and Tall Trees" is a song by the Irish rock band U2, originally released on their debut album "Boy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shadows and Tall Trees canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1130541 — 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: Shadows and Tall Trees Context triple: [Boy, hasPart, Shadows and Tall Trees]
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A.
Shadows and Light
"Shadows and Light" is a 1980 live album and concert film by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, capturing jazz-infused performances with an all-star band.
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B.
Shadows on the Rock
Shadows on the Rock is a historical novel by Willa Cather set in 17th-century Quebec, exploring themes of faith, community, and cultural identity in the French colonial world.
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C.
City of Trees
City of Trees is a popular nickname for Sacramento, California, highlighting its extensive urban tree canopy and lush greenery.
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D.
The Woods
The Woods is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Burke Centre in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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E.
The Power of Trees
"The Power of Trees" is an influential work by ecologist Gretchen C. Daily that explores the vital ecological, economic, and cultural roles of trees and forests in sustaining life on Earth.
- 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: Shadows and Tall Trees Target entity description: "Shadows and Tall Trees" is a song by the Irish rock band U2, originally released on their debut album "Boy."
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A.
Shadows and Light
"Shadows and Light" is a 1980 live album and concert film by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, capturing jazz-infused performances with an all-star band.
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B.
Shadows on the Rock
Shadows on the Rock is a historical novel by Willa Cather set in 17th-century Quebec, exploring themes of faith, community, and cultural identity in the French colonial world.
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C.
City of Trees
City of Trees is a popular nickname for Sacramento, California, highlighting its extensive urban tree canopy and lush greenery.
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D.
The Woods
The Woods is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Burke Centre in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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E.
The Power of Trees
"The Power of Trees" is an influential work by ecologist Gretchen C. Daily that explores the vital ecological, economic, and cultural roles of trees and forests in sustaining life on Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Boy ⓘ |
| artist | U2 ⓘ |
| composer |
Adam Clayton
ⓘ
Bono ⓘ Larry Mullen Jr. ⓘ The Edge ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| genre |
post-punk
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasArtistType | rock band ⓘ |
| hasLyricsTheme |
adolescence
ⓘ
identity ⓘ introspection ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasType | studio recording ⓘ |
| isOnDebutAlbumOf | U2 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bono ⓘ |
| medium |
compact disc
ⓘ
digital audio ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedOn | Boy ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Boy ⓘ |
| performer |
Irish rock band U2
ⓘ
linked to:
U2
U2 ⓘ |
| performerNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| producer | Steve Lillywhite ⓘ |
| publicationType | album track ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | U2 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Island Records ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
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: Shadows and Tall Trees Description of subject: "Shadows and Tall Trees" is a song by the Irish rock band U2, originally released on their debut album "Boy."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.