As Tears Go By
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"As Tears Go By" is a melancholic 1960s pop ballad associated with The Rolling Stones, known for its orchestral arrangement and reflective lyrics about lost youth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| As Tears Go By canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2641699 — 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: As Tears Go By Context triple: [The Rolling Stones, notableWork, As Tears Go By]
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A.
So Many Tears
"So Many Tears" is a reflective and emotionally charged song by Tupac Shakur that explores themes of pain, loss, and inner turmoil.
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B.
After You've Gone
"After You've Gone" is a classic early 20th-century popular song that has become a jazz and pop standard, widely recorded and performed by numerous artists.
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C.
Fire and Rain
"Fire and Rain" is a 1970 folk-rock song by James Taylor, widely recognized for its introspective lyrics about personal struggle and loss.
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D.
Tears in Heaven
"Tears in Heaven" is a poignant ballad by Eric Clapton reflecting on grief and loss, widely recognized as one of his most emotional and enduring songs.
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E.
Carolina in My Mind
"Carolina in My Mind" is a reflective folk-rock song by James Taylor that nostalgically evokes his longing for his home state of North Carolina.
- 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: As Tears Go By Target entity description: "As Tears Go By" is a melancholic 1960s pop ballad associated with The Rolling Stones, known for its orchestral arrangement and reflective lyrics about lost youth.
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A.
So Many Tears
"So Many Tears" is a reflective and emotionally charged song by Tupac Shakur that explores themes of pain, loss, and inner turmoil.
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B.
After You've Gone
"After You've Gone" is a classic early 20th-century popular song that has become a jazz and pop standard, widely recorded and performed by numerous artists.
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C.
Fire and Rain
"Fire and Rain" is a 1970 folk-rock song by James Taylor, widely recognized for its introspective lyrics about personal struggle and loss.
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D.
Tears in Heaven
"Tears in Heaven" is a poignant ballad by Eric Clapton reflecting on grief and loss, widely recognized as one of his most emotional and enduring songs.
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E.
Carolina in My Mind
"Carolina in My Mind" is a reflective folk-rock song by James Taylor that nostalgically evokes his longing for his home state of North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | 1960s rock ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| era | British Invasion ⓘ |
| genre |
baroque pop
ⓘ
orchestral pop ⓘ pop ballad ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
orchestral backing ⓘ string section ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasLyricCharacteristic |
first-person narration
ⓘ
reflective lyrics ⓘ |
| hasMood |
contemplative
ⓘ
sad ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
orchestral arrangement
ⓘ
slow tempo ⓘ string arrangement ⓘ |
| hasNotableLine |
"I sit and watch as tears go by"
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"I sit and watch the children play" ⓘ "It is the evening of the day" ⓘ "Smiling faces I can see, but not for me" ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableCoverArtist | Marianne Faithfull ⓘ |
| originallyWrittenFor | Marianne Faithfull ⓘ |
| performer | The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
emotional distance
ⓘ
loneliness ⓘ passage of time ⓘ |
| theme |
lost youth
ⓘ
melancholy ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ |
| writer |
Andrew Loog Oldham
ⓘ
Keith Richards ⓘ Mick Jagger ⓘ |
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: As Tears Go By Description of subject: "As Tears Go By" is a melancholic 1960s pop ballad associated with The Rolling Stones, known for its orchestral arrangement and reflective lyrics about lost youth.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.