Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
E341460
"Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" is a mellow, acoustic-driven pop song by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, known for its laid-back style and themes of unrequited love.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sitting, Waiting, Wishing canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3273888 — 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: Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Context triple: [Jack Johnson, notableSong, Sitting, Waiting, Wishing]
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A.
The Waiting
"The Waiting" is a popular rock song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for its jangly guitars and reflective lyrics about anticipation and patience.
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B.
Waiting in Vain
"Waiting in Vain" is a soulful reggae love song by Bob Marley, best known for its themes of unrequited love and its inclusion on the 1977 album *Exodus*.
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C.
Can’t Wait
"Can’t Wait" is a song by Bob Dylan, featured on his acclaimed 1997 album *Time Out of Mind*, known for its moody, blues-infused sound and themes of longing and inevitability.
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D.
Are We the Waiting
"Are We the Waiting" is a mid-tempo, atmospheric rock song by Green Day from their concept album *American Idiot*, reflecting themes of disillusionment and longing.
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E.
Waiting on a Friend
"Waiting on a Friend" is a mellow, reggae-tinged rock ballad by The Rolling Stones, known for its reflective lyrics on friendship and its memorable saxophone solo by Sonny Rollins.
- 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: Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Target entity description: "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" is a mellow, acoustic-driven pop song by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, known for its laid-back style and themes of unrequited love.
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A.
The Waiting
"The Waiting" is a popular rock song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for its jangly guitars and reflective lyrics about anticipation and patience.
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B.
Waiting in Vain
"Waiting in Vain" is a soulful reggae love song by Bob Marley, best known for its themes of unrequited love and its inclusion on the 1977 album *Exodus*.
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C.
Can’t Wait
"Can’t Wait" is a song by Bob Dylan, featured on his acclaimed 1997 album *Time Out of Mind*, known for its moody, blues-infused sound and themes of longing and inevitability.
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D.
Are We the Waiting
"Are We the Waiting" is a mid-tempo, atmospheric rock song by Green Day from their concept album *American Idiot*, reflecting themes of disillusionment and longing.
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E.
Waiting on a Friend
"Waiting on a Friend" is a mellow, reggae-tinged rock ballad by The Rolling Stones, known for its reflective lyrics on friendship and its memorable saxophone solo by Sonny Rollins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | In Between Dreams ⓘ |
| artist | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| chronology | Jack Johnson singles ⓘ |
| composer | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
acoustic rock
ⓘ
pop ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasHook | repetitive chorus phrase "sitting, waiting, wishing" ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | true ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
acoustic-driven
ⓘ
laid-back ⓘ mellow ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | In Between Dreams ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicVideoStyle | reverse-motion video ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | romantic frustration ⓘ |
| partOf | Jack Johnson discography ⓘ |
| performer | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Brushfire Records
ⓘ
Universal Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| theme | unrequited love ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | relaxed ⓘ |
| writer | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
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: Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Description of subject: "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" is a mellow, acoustic-driven pop song by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, known for its laid-back style and themes of unrequited love.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.