Lazarus
E434419
"Lazarus" is a song and stage musical by David Bowie, noted for its haunting reflection on mortality and its close association with his final artistic period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lazarus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363199 — 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: Lazarus Context triple: [David Bowie, notableWork, Lazarus]
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A.
Lazarus
Lazarus is the troubled, blues-playing ex-bluesman portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the 2006 Southern drama film "Black Snake Moan."
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B.
Lazar
Lazar is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in Slavic and other Eastern European cultures.
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C.
Lazarus Salii
Lazarus Salii was a Palauan politician who served as President of Palau during the late 1980s, playing a key role in the country’s early years of self-governance.
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D.
Lazare
Lazare is a masculine given name of French origin, notably borne by the French mathematician, physicist, and statesman Lazare Carnot.
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E.
Lazarus of Bethany
Lazarus of Bethany is a New Testament figure whom Jesus famously raised from the dead, symbolizing resurrection and eternal life in Christian tradition.
- 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: Lazarus Target entity description: "Lazarus" is a song and stage musical by David Bowie, noted for its haunting reflection on mortality and its close association with his final artistic period.
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A.
Lazarus
Lazarus is the troubled, blues-playing ex-bluesman portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the 2006 Southern drama film "Black Snake Moan."
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B.
Lazar
Lazar is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in Slavic and other Eastern European cultures.
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C.
Lazarus Salii
Lazarus Salii was a Palauan politician who served as President of Palau during the late 1980s, playing a key role in the country’s early years of self-governance.
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D.
Lazare
Lazare is a masculine given name of French origin, notably borne by the French mathematician, physicist, and statesman Lazare Carnot.
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E.
Lazarus of Bethany
Lazarus of Bethany is a New Testament figure whom Jesus famously raised from the dead, symbolizing resurrection and eternal life in Christian tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
ⓘ
stage musical ⓘ stage musical ⓘ |
| album | Blackstar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
David Bowie final album Blackstar
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David Bowie final artistic period ⓘ David Bowie final artistic phase ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Man Who Fell to Earth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas Jerome Newton character ⓘ |
| composer | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresSong |
David Bowie catalogue songs
ⓘ
Lazarus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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rock ⓘ stage musical ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Lazarus (music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Johan Renck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Blackstar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
ISO Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | Bowie final artistic period ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
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death ⓘ farewell ⓘ identity ⓘ mortality ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | Biblical figure Lazarus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Lazarus Description of subject: "Lazarus" is a song and stage musical by David Bowie, noted for its haunting reflection on mortality and its close association with his final artistic period.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.