The New Timer
E216996
"The New Timer" is a somber folk-rock song by Bruce Springsteen that tells a poignant story of economic hardship and personal struggle in contemporary America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The New Timer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921495 — 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 New Timer Context triple: [The Ghost of Tom Joad, hasTrack, The New Timer]
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A.
Smashing Time
Smashing Time is a 1967 British satirical comedy film that parodies Swinging London’s fashion and pop culture scene.
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B.
The Time is at Hand
"The Time is at Hand" is a volume in Charles Taze Russell’s *Studies in the Scriptures* series that focuses on biblical chronology and end-times prophecy.
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C.
A Loop
A Loop is a modern streetcar route in Portland, Oregon, that provides circulator service through the central city and adjacent neighborhoods as part of the Portland Streetcar system.
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D.
Time for Three
Time for Three is a genre-blending string trio known for fusing classical music with jazz, pop, and other contemporary styles in highly energetic performances.
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E.
Midnight Office
Midnight Office is a Christian liturgical service of nighttime prayer, traditionally observed around midnight as part of the daily cycle of worship.
- 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 New Timer Target entity description: "The New Timer" is a somber folk-rock song by Bruce Springsteen that tells a poignant story of economic hardship and personal struggle in contemporary America.
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A.
Smashing Time
Smashing Time is a 1967 British satirical comedy film that parodies Swinging London’s fashion and pop culture scene.
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B.
The Time is at Hand
"The Time is at Hand" is a volume in Charles Taze Russell’s *Studies in the Scriptures* series that focuses on biblical chronology and end-times prophecy.
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C.
A Loop
A Loop is a modern streetcar route in Portland, Oregon, that provides circulator service through the central city and adjacent neighborhoods as part of the Portland Streetcar system.
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D.
Time for Three
Time for Three is a genre-blending string trio known for fusing classical music with jazz, pop, and other contemporary styles in highly energetic performances.
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E.
Midnight Office
Midnight Office is a Christian liturgical service of nighttime prayer, traditionally observed around midnight as part of the daily cycle of worship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| composer | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
American working poor
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economic insecurity ⓘ itinerant workers ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
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folk rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasLyrics | yes ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
class inequality
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moral ambiguity ⓘ search for dignity ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| mood | somber ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
contemporary American life
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economic hardship ⓘ friendship ⓘ loss ⓘ personal struggle ⓘ violence ⓘ working-class experience ⓘ |
| performer | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| tone | poignant ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | solo male vocal ⓘ |
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 New Timer Description of subject: "The New Timer" is a somber folk-rock song by Bruce Springsteen that tells a poignant story of economic hardship and personal struggle in contemporary America.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.