Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World
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"Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World" is a mellow, introspective song by Irish rock band U2 from their 1991 album *Achtung Baby*, blending atmospheric rock with reflective lyrics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World | 1 |
| Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1130757 — 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: Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World Context triple: [Achtung Baby, hasPart, Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World]
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A.
Up in the World
Up in the World is a 1956 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a window cleaner who becomes entangled in chaotic misadventures while working at a wealthy country estate.
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B.
Love Makes the World Go
Love Makes the World Go is a musical work by renowned American composer Richard Rodgers, known for his influential contributions to 20th-century musical theatre.
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C.
Lost in the World
"Lost in the World" is a genre-blending, emotionally charged track by Kanye West that closes his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with layered vocals, atmospheric production, and a transition into the spoken-word piece "Who Will Survive in America."
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D.
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a 1993 country song by Dwight Yoakam known for its melancholic lyrics and atmospheric, Bakersfield-influenced sound.
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E.
I Threw It All Away
"I Threw It All Away" is a reflective country-folk song by Bob Dylan, notable for its themes of regret and emotional loss.
- 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: Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World Target entity description: "Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World" is a mellow, introspective song by Irish rock band U2 from their 1991 album *Achtung Baby*, blending atmospheric rock with reflective lyrics.
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A.
Up in the World
Up in the World is a 1956 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a window cleaner who becomes entangled in chaotic misadventures while working at a wealthy country estate.
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B.
Love Makes the World Go
Love Makes the World Go is a musical work by renowned American composer Richard Rodgers, known for his influential contributions to 20th-century musical theatre.
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C.
Lost in the World
"Lost in the World" is a genre-blending, emotionally charged track by Kanye West that closes his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with layered vocals, atmospheric production, and a transition into the spoken-word piece "Who Will Survive in America."
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D.
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a 1993 country song by Dwight Yoakam known for its melancholic lyrics and atmospheric, Bakersfield-influenced sound.
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E.
I Threw It All Away
"I Threw It All Away" is a reflective country-folk song by Bob Dylan, notable for its themes of regret and emotional loss.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Achtung Baby ⓘ |
| artist | U2 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Brian Eno
ⓘ
Daniel Lanois ⓘ |
| chronologyContext | U2 1990s songs ⓘ |
| composer |
Adam Clayton
ⓘ
Bono ⓘ Larry Mullen Jr. ⓘ The Edge ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
atmospheric rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasEra | early 1990s rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
introspection
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reflection ⓘ |
| hasMood |
introspective
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mellow ⓘ |
| hasNotableAlbum | Achtung Baby ⓘ |
| hasStyle | atmospheric ⓘ |
| hasType | album track ⓘ |
| includedIn | U2 discography ⓘ |
| isOnStudioAlbum | Achtung Baby ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bono ⓘ |
| partOf | Achtung Baby ⓘ |
| performer | U2 ⓘ |
| performerMember |
Adam Clayton
ⓘ
Bono ⓘ Larry Mullen Jr. ⓘ The Edge ⓘ |
| producer |
Brian Eno
ⓘ
Daniel Lanois ⓘ Steve Lillywhite ⓘ |
| recordedBy | U2 ⓘ |
| recordingArtistNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Interscope Records
ⓘ
Island Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| trackPositionOnAlbum | late-album track ⓘ |
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: Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World Description of subject: "Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World" is a mellow, introspective song by Irish rock band U2 from their 1991 album *Achtung Baby*, blending atmospheric rock with reflective lyrics.
Referenced by (2)
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