To Be of Use
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"To Be of Use" is a song by indie singer-songwriter Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 1997 album *Red Apple Falls*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| To Be of Use canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2958428 — 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: To Be of Use Context triple: [Red Apple Falls, hasTrack, To Be of Use]
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A.
Rather Be
"Rather Be" is a 2014 hit single by British electronic group Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne, known for its blend of classical-inspired strings with dance-pop production.
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B.
The Fun of It
The Fun of It is a 1932 memoir by pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, recounting her experiences in early aviation and encouraging women to pursue flying.
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C.
Only Goodness
Only Goodness is a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri that appears in her collection "Unaccustomed Earth," exploring themes of family, guilt, and cultural identity.
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D.
The Blessed Unrest
The Blessed Unrest is a 2013 pop and singer-songwriter album by Sara Bareilles that features introspective lyrics and piano-driven melodies, including the hit single "Brave."
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E.
Achin’ to Be
"Achin’ to Be" is a punk rock song by the American band Pinhead Gunpowder, known for its melodic hooks and association with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
- 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: To Be of Use Target entity description: "To Be of Use" is a song by indie singer-songwriter Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 1997 album *Red Apple Falls*.
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A.
Rather Be
"Rather Be" is a 2014 hit single by British electronic group Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne, known for its blend of classical-inspired strings with dance-pop production.
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B.
The Fun of It
The Fun of It is a 1932 memoir by pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, recounting her experiences in early aviation and encouraging women to pursue flying.
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C.
Only Goodness
Only Goodness is a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri that appears in her collection "Unaccustomed Earth," exploring themes of family, guilt, and cultural identity.
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D.
The Blessed Unrest
The Blessed Unrest is a 2013 pop and singer-songwriter album by Sara Bareilles that features introspective lyrics and piano-driven melodies, including the hit single "Brave."
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E.
Achin’ to Be
"Achin’ to Be" is a punk rock song by the American band Pinhead Gunpowder, known for its melodic hooks and association with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| album | Red Apple Falls ⓘ |
| artist | Smog ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Smog ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creditedTo | Smog ⓘ |
| genre |
indie rock
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lo-fi ⓘ |
| hasArtistRealName | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
| hasFormat | album track ⓘ |
| hasLyricsBy | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
| hasMedium | audio recording ⓘ |
| hasOriginalReleaseRegion |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| hasPerformerAlias | Smog ⓘ |
| hasPerformerRealName | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
| includedIn |
album "Red Apple Falls"
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surface form:
1997 studio album Red Apple Falls
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| isTrackOn | Red Apple Falls ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicStyle | indie singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | Red Apple Falls ⓘ |
| performer | Smog ⓘ |
| performerName | Smog ⓘ |
| producer |
Jim O'Rourke
ⓘ
surface form:
Jim O’Rourke
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| recordedBy | Smog ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Drag City ⓘ |
| releaseType | album track ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| writer | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
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: To Be of Use Description of subject: "To Be of Use" is a song by indie singer-songwriter Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 1997 album *Red Apple Falls*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Red Apple Falls