The Blackout
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"The Blackout" is a rock song by U2 from their 2017 album *Songs of Experience*, noted for its heavy bass-driven sound and politically charged lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Blackout canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1130956 — 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: The Blackout Context triple: [Songs of Experience, hasPart, The Blackout]
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A.
The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
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B.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
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C.
Nightfall
"Nightfall" is a classic science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the psychological and societal collapse of a civilization experiencing darkness and a view of the stars for the first time.
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D.
The Backbone of Night
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
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E.
After the Fall
After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, memory, and personal responsibility, widely seen as reflecting his relationship with Marilyn Monroe and the era of McCarthyism.
- 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: The Blackout Target entity description: "The Blackout" is a rock song by U2 from their 2017 album *Songs of Experience*, noted for its heavy bass-driven sound and politically charged lyrics.
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A.
The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
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B.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
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C.
Nightfall
"Nightfall" is a classic science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the psychological and societal collapse of a civilization experiencing darkness and a view of the stars for the first time.
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D.
The Backbone of Night
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
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E.
After the Fall
After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, memory, and personal responsibility, widely seen as reflecting his relationship with Marilyn Monroe and the era of McCarthyism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| album | Songs of Experience ⓘ |
| albumArtist | U2 ⓘ |
| artist | U2 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
political unrest
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politically charged lyrics ⓘ resistance ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| hasMusicalCharacteristic | bass-driven sound ⓘ |
| hasStyle | heavy rock arrangement ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
contemporary politics
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global instability ⓘ |
| includedIn | U2 discography ⓘ |
| isOnAlbumBy | Songs of Experience ⓘ |
| isSongBy | U2 ⓘ |
| isTrackOnStudioAlbum | Songs of Experience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Songs of Experience ⓘ |
| performer | U2 ⓘ |
| performerNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | U2 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2017 ⓘ |
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: The Blackout Description of subject: "The Blackout" is a rock song by U2 from their 2017 album *Songs of Experience*, noted for its heavy bass-driven sound and politically charged lyrics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.