Sunshine on Leith
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"Sunshine on Leith" is a 1988 album by Scottish band The Proclaimers, best known for its heartfelt title track and the hit single "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunshine on Leith canonical | 18 |
| "Sunshine on Leith" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2233385 — 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: Sunshine on Leith Context triple: [Sunshine on Leith, partOfAlbum, Sunshine on Leith]
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A.
Dumbarton’s Drums
Dumbarton’s Drums is a traditional Scottish military march closely associated with the Royal Scots regiment and Scottish martial heritage.
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B.
Scotland the Brave
Scotland the Brave is a famous traditional Scottish patriotic song and pipe tune widely regarded as one of Scotland’s unofficial national anthems.
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C.
Tam o' Shanter
Tam o' Shanter is a narrative poem by Robert Burns that humorously recounts a drunken farmer’s terrifying nighttime encounter with witches and other supernatural beings.
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D.
White Heather
"White Heather" is a novel by 19th-century Scottish author William Black, known for its romantic and picturesque depictions of Scottish life and landscapes.
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E.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a long, poetic ballad by Bob Dylan, celebrated for its hypnotic lyrics and closing position on his landmark album Blonde on Blonde.
- 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: Sunshine on Leith Target entity description: "Sunshine on Leith" is a 1988 album by Scottish band The Proclaimers, best known for its heartfelt title track and the hit single "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)."
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A.
Dumbarton’s Drums
Dumbarton’s Drums is a traditional Scottish military march closely associated with the Royal Scots regiment and Scottish martial heritage.
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B.
Scotland the Brave
Scotland the Brave is a famous traditional Scottish patriotic song and pipe tune widely regarded as one of Scotland’s unofficial national anthems.
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C.
Tam o' Shanter
Tam o' Shanter is a narrative poem by Robert Burns that humorously recounts a drunken farmer’s terrifying nighttime encounter with witches and other supernatural beings.
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D.
White Heather
"White Heather" is a novel by 19th-century Scottish author William Black, known for its romantic and picturesque depictions of Scottish life and landscapes.
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E.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a long, poetic ballad by Bob Dylan, celebrated for its hypnotic lyrics and closing position on his landmark album Blonde on Blonde.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Sunshine on Leith Description of subject: "Sunshine on Leith" is a 1988 album by Scottish band The Proclaimers, best known for its heartfelt title track and the hit single "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sunshine on Leith
subject surface form:
Sunshine on Leith
this entity surface form:
"Sunshine on Leith"
subject surface form:
George MacKay