A Design for Life
E417168
"A Design for Life" is a 1996 Britpop-era anthem by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers that critiques class inequality and became one of their most iconic and commercially successful singles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Design for Life canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161711 — 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.
Target entity: A Design for Life Context triple: [Manic Street Preachers, notableSong, A Design for Life]
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A.
Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design
"Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design" is a collection of visually rich, reflective essays by designer and writer Debbie Millman that explores how design, storytelling, and everyday life intersect.
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B.
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People
"Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People" is a book by designer and interviewer Debbie Millman that collects in-depth conversations with leading figures across design, art, and culture.
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C.
A Designer’s Art
A Designer’s Art is a seminal book by graphic designer Paul Rand that explores his philosophy, principles, and influential work in modern visual communication and corporate identity design.
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D.
The Design of Design
The Design of Design is a book by computer scientist Fred Brooks that explores the principles, challenges, and creative processes underlying effective design across engineering and other disciplines.
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E.
The Belly of an Architect
The Belly of an Architect is a 1987 art-house drama film directed by Peter Greenaway, centered on an American architect in Rome whose obsession with a historical figure mirrors his own physical and psychological decline.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: A Design for Life Target entity description: "A Design for Life" is a 1996 Britpop-era anthem by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers that critiques class inequality and became one of their most iconic and commercially successful singles.
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A.
Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design
"Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design" is a collection of visually rich, reflective essays by designer and writer Debbie Millman that explores how design, storytelling, and everyday life intersect.
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B.
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People
"Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People" is a book by designer and interviewer Debbie Millman that collects in-depth conversations with leading figures across design, art, and culture.
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C.
A Designer’s Art
A Designer’s Art is a seminal book by graphic designer Paul Rand that explores his philosophy, principles, and influential work in modern visual communication and corporate identity design.
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D.
The Design of Design
The Design of Design is a book by computer scientist Fred Brooks that explores the principles, challenges, and creative processes underlying effective design across engineering and other disciplines.
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E.
The Belly of an Architect
The Belly of an Architect is a 1987 art-house drama film directed by Peter Greenaway, centered on an American architect in Rome whose obsession with a historical figure mirrors his own physical and psychological decline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Manic Street Preachers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartedIn |
Australian Singles Chart
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Irish Singles Chart ⓘ Norwegian Singles Chart ⓘ Swedish Singles Chart ⓘ UK Singles Chart ⓘ |
| chartPositionUK | 2 ⓘ |
| composer | James Dean Bradfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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Wales ⓘ |
| describedAs |
Britpop-era anthem
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anthem ⓘ |
| followedBy | Everything Must Go (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | She Is Suffering ⓘ |
| format |
7-inch single
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CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| genre |
Britpop
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alternative rock ⓘ |
| hasBside |
Dead Passive
ⓘ
Dead Trees and Traffic Islands ⓘ Mr. Carbohydrate ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideoDirector | Pedro Romhanyi ⓘ |
| hasOpeningLyric | Libraries gave us power ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Everything Must Go ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 4:19 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Manic Street Preachers' most iconic singles
ⓘ
commercial success ⓘ critiquing class inequality ⓘ |
| partOf | Everything Must Go ONNED1 ⓘ |
| performer | Manic Street Preachers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Manic Street Preachers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Hedges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Sony/ATV Music Publishing ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1995 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Epic Records
ⓘ
Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Music
|
| releaseDate | 1996-04-15 ⓘ |
| theme |
class inequality
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social commentary ⓘ working-class identity ⓘ |
| writer |
James Dean Bradfield
NERFINISHED
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Nicky Wire NERFINISHED ⓘ Sean Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfRelease | 1996 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: A Design for Life Description of subject: "A Design for Life" is a 1996 Britpop-era anthem by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers that critiques class inequality and became one of their most iconic and commercially successful singles.
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