Sail On
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"Sail On" is a 1979 soft rock and soul ballad by the Commodores, featuring Lionel Richie and known for its smooth, country-tinged sound and themes of heartbreak and moving on.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sail On canonical | 6 |
| Sail On (alternative version) | 1 |
| Sail On (live) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2718278 — 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: Sail On Context triple: [The Commodores, notableWork, Sail On]
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A.
Sail Away
"Sail Away" is a 1972 song and album by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman, known for its satirical and poignant commentary on the American dream and slavery.
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B.
Spirit on the Water
"Spirit on the Water" is a reflective, blues-inflected song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album *Modern Times*, noted for its laid-back groove and lyrical blend of romance, humor, and spiritual allusion.
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C.
Voyage
Voyage is a 2021 studio album by Swedish pop group ABBA, marking their first new material in four decades and a major comeback in their career.
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D.
My Ship
"My Ship" is a popular song by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin, introduced in the 1941 Broadway musical "Lady in the Dark" and later becoming a jazz and pop standard.
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E.
Sailing Bright Eternity
"Sailing Bright Eternity" is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that concludes his Galactic Center series, depicting humanity's far-future struggle against machine intelligences near the Milky Way's core.
- 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: Sail On Target entity description: "Sail On" is a 1979 soft rock and soul ballad by the Commodores, featuring Lionel Richie and known for its smooth, country-tinged sound and themes of heartbreak and moving on.
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A.
Sail Away
"Sail Away" is a 1972 song and album by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman, known for its satirical and poignant commentary on the American dream and slavery.
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B.
Spirit on the Water
"Spirit on the Water" is a reflective, blues-inflected song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album *Modern Times*, noted for its laid-back groove and lyrical blend of romance, humor, and spiritual allusion.
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C.
Voyage
Voyage is a 2021 studio album by Swedish pop group ABBA, marking their first new material in four decades and a major comeback in their career.
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D.
My Ship
"My Ship" is a popular song by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin, introduced in the 1941 Broadway musical "Lady in the Dark" and later becoming a jazz and pop standard.
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E.
Sailing Bright Eternity
"Sailing Bright Eternity" is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that concludes his Galactic Center series, depicting humanity's far-future struggle against machine intelligences near the Milky Way's core.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sail On Description of subject: "Sail On" is a 1979 soft rock and soul ballad by the Commodores, featuring Lionel Richie and known for its smooth, country-tinged sound and themes of heartbreak and moving on.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.