Dream of Life
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Dream of Life is a 1988 studio album by American musician and poet Patti Smith, marking her return to recording after a long hiatus and featuring the song "People Have the Power."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dream of Life canonical | 3 |
| Dream of Life (song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3972521 — 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: Dream of Life Context triple: [Patti Smith, notableWork, Dream of Life]
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A.
Life Is But a Dream
Life Is But a Dream is a 2013 autobiographical documentary film that offers an intimate look at the life and career of Beyoncé.
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B.
This Life
"This Life" is a rock-influenced theme song best known for opening the television series *Sons of Anarchy*, capturing its outlaw biker tone and atmosphere.
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C.
This Life
"This Life" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 2009 rock album "Working on a Dream."
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D.
This Life
"This Life" is a British television drama series that follows the intertwined personal and professional lives of young lawyers sharing a house in London.
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E.
To Life
"To Life" is a lively celebratory song from the musical *Fiddler on the Roof*, sung as a toast to good fortune and resilience amid hardship.
- 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: Dream of Life Target entity description: Dream of Life is a 1988 studio album by American musician and poet Patti Smith, marking her return to recording after a long hiatus and featuring the song "People Have the Power."
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A.
Life Is But a Dream
Life Is But a Dream is a 2013 autobiographical documentary film that offers an intimate look at the life and career of Beyoncé.
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B.
This Life
"This Life" is a British television drama series that follows the intertwined personal and professional lives of young lawyers sharing a house in London.
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C.
This Life
"This Life" is a rock-influenced theme song best known for opening the television series *Sons of Anarchy*, capturing its outlaw biker tone and atmosphere.
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D.
This Life
"This Life" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 2009 rock album "Working on a Dream."
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E.
To Life
"To Life" is a lively celebratory song from the musical *Fiddler on the Roof*, sung as a toast to good fortune and resilience amid hardship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Patti Smith ⓘ |
| chronology | Patti Smith studio albums ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| description | 1988 studio album by American musician and poet Patti Smith, marking her return to recording after a long hiatus ⓘ |
| featuresMusician | Fred Smith ⓘ |
| featuresWriter | Patti Smith ⓘ |
| followedBy | Gone Again ⓘ |
| follows | Wave ⓘ |
| format |
audio cassette
ⓘ
compact disc ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
art rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | political activism through music ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Dream of Life
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dream of Life (song)
Going Under ⓘ Looking for You ⓘ
surface form:
Looking for You (I Was)
Paths That Cross ⓘ People Have the Power ⓘ The Jackson Song ⓘ Up There Down There ⓘ Where Duty Calls ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | social and political themes ⓘ |
| notableWork | People Have the Power ⓘ |
| performer | Patti Smith ⓘ |
| producer |
Fred Smith
ⓘ
James Iovine ⓘ
surface form:
Jimmy Iovine
|
| publicationType | music album ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1987–1988 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Arista Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1988 ⓘ |
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: Dream of Life Description of subject: Dream of Life is a 1988 studio album by American musician and poet Patti Smith, marking her return to recording after a long hiatus and featuring the song "People Have the Power."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dream of Life (song)