Substitute
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"Substitute" is a 1966 rock song by the British band The Who, known for its sharp lyrics about identity and pretense and for becoming one of their early hit singles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Substitute canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4649998 — 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: Substitute Context triple: [The Who, notableWork, Substitute]
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A.
Quick Change
Quick Change is a 1990 crime-comedy film co-directed by and starring Bill Murray as a mastermind bank robber whose escape from New York City goes increasingly awry.
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B.
Meantime
Meantime is Helmet’s influential 1992 heavy metal album known for its precise, riff-driven sound and impact on alternative and post-hardcore music.
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C.
Meantime
Meantime is a 1983 British television film directed by Mike Leigh that portrays the bleak lives of a working-class family in Thatcher-era London.
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D.
Takeover
"Takeover" is a prominent diss track by Jay-Z, featured on his 2001 album *The Blueprint*, that targets fellow rappers Nas and Prodigy and is widely noted for its sharp lyricism and impact on hip-hop rivalries.
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E.
Sabotage
Sabotage is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent," about a cinema owner secretly involved in a terrorist bombing plot in London.
- 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: Substitute Target entity description: "Substitute" is a 1966 rock song by the British band The Who, known for its sharp lyrics about identity and pretense and for becoming one of their early hit singles.
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A.
Quick Change
Quick Change is a 1990 crime-comedy film co-directed by and starring Bill Murray as a mastermind bank robber whose escape from New York City goes increasingly awry.
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B.
Meantime
Meantime is Helmet’s influential 1992 heavy metal album known for its precise, riff-driven sound and impact on alternative and post-hardcore music.
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C.
Meantime
Meantime is a 1983 British television film directed by Mike Leigh that portrays the bleak lives of a working-class family in Thatcher-era London.
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D.
Takeover
"Takeover" is a prominent diss track by Jay-Z, featured on his 2001 album *The Blueprint*, that targets fellow rappers Nas and Prodigy and is widely noted for its sharp lyricism and impact on hip-hop rivalries.
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E.
Sabotage
"Sabotage" is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, featuring an ensemble cast led by Arnold Schwarzenegger as members of an elite DEA task force.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | The Who NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Circles ⓘ |
| chart | UK Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 5 ⓘ |
| composer | Pete Townshend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decade | 1960s ⓘ |
| followedBy | I’m a Boy ⓘ |
| follows |
La-La-La-Lies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
My Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
power pop
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion | Substitute (Live at Leeds) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLyricalDevice |
irony
ⓘ
social commentary ⓘ wordplay ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | British rock ⓘ |
| hasPerformer |
John Entwistle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keith Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Townshend NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Daltrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject | romantic relationships ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
identity
ⓘ
pretense ⓘ self-perception ⓘ social class ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Who: The Ultimate Collection NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ lead vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:47 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early hit single for The Who
ⓘ
sharp lyrics about identity and pretense ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedIn | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | The Who discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | The Who NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Kit Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1966 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Reaction Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1966-03-04 ⓘ |
| writer | Pete Townshend 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: Substitute Description of subject: "Substitute" is a 1966 rock song by the British band The Who, known for its sharp lyrics about identity and pretense and for becoming one of their early hit singles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.