Surfacing
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Surfacing is a 1997 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan that features some of her most commercially successful and critically acclaimed songs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surfacing canonical | 15 |
| Surfacing tour | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2117536 — 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: Surfacing Context triple: [Sarah McLachlan, notableWork, Surfacing]
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A.
Surfacing
Surfacing is a 1972 novel by Margaret Atwood that blends psychological mystery with feminist and environmental themes as it follows a woman’s search for her missing father in rural Quebec.
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B.
Dreams of Surf
"Dreams of Surf" is a track by the band Oceanic, likely featuring ocean-inspired, atmospheric sounds and surf-influenced vibes.
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C.
Like the Sea
"Like the Sea" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys from her album "The Element of Freedom," noted for its serene, metaphor-rich lyrics and gentle, flowing melody.
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D.
Every Breaking Wave
"Every Breaking Wave" is a U2 song, known as one of the standout, emotionally charged tracks from their album *Songs of Innocence*.
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E.
Night Surf
"Night Surf" is a post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen King set in the same flu-ravaged world as his novel "The Stand."
- 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: Surfacing Target entity description: Surfacing is a 1997 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan that features some of her most commercially successful and critically acclaimed songs.
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A.
Surfacing
Surfacing is a 1972 novel by Margaret Atwood that blends psychological mystery with feminist and environmental themes as it follows a woman’s search for her missing father in rural Quebec.
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B.
Dreams of Surf
"Dreams of Surf" is a track by the band Oceanic, likely featuring ocean-inspired, atmospheric sounds and surf-influenced vibes.
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C.
Like the Sea
"Like the Sea" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys from her album "The Element of Freedom," noted for its serene, metaphor-rich lyrics and gentle, flowing melody.
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D.
Every Breaking Wave
"Every Breaking Wave" is a U2 song, known as one of the standout, emotionally charged tracks from their album *Songs of Innocence*.
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E.
Night Surf
"Night Surf" is a post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen King set in the same flu-ravaged world as his novel "The Stand."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Surfacing Description of subject: Surfacing is a 1997 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan that features some of her most commercially successful and critically acclaimed songs.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.