Road to Nowhere
E497183
"Road to Nowhere" is a 1985 song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, known for its upbeat sound paired with lyrics about uncertainty and the future.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Road to Nowhere canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5144600 — 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: Road to Nowhere Context triple: [Talking Heads, notableWork, Road to Nowhere]
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A.
The Road to Nowhere
The Road to Nowhere is a romantic adventure novel by Russian writer Alexander Grin, known for its dreamlike atmosphere and exploration of idealism and destiny.
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B.
Enter Nowhere
Enter Nowhere is a 2011 psychological thriller film about three strangers mysteriously trapped at a remote cabin in the woods, where they uncover a mind-bending connection between them.
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C.
Make Way
Make Way is a 1961 folk music album by The Kingston Trio that showcases the group’s signature harmonies and helped solidify their popularity during the American folk revival.
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D.
Anywhere but Here
Anywhere but Here is a 1986 coming-of-age novel by Mona Simpson that follows a restless mother and her precocious daughter as they leave the Midwest for California in search of a better life.
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E.
Ticket To Nowhere
"Ticket To Nowhere" is a song recorded by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, featured on their 1970 album *Tell It All Brother*.
- 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: Road to Nowhere Target entity description: "Road to Nowhere" is a 1985 song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, known for its upbeat sound paired with lyrics about uncertainty and the future.
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A.
The Road to Nowhere
The Road to Nowhere is a romantic adventure novel by Russian writer Alexander Grin, known for its dreamlike atmosphere and exploration of idealism and destiny.
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B.
Enter Nowhere
Enter Nowhere is a 2011 psychological thriller film about three strangers mysteriously trapped at a remote cabin in the woods, where they uncover a mind-bending connection between them.
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C.
Make Way
Make Way is a 1961 folk music album by The Kingston Trio that showcases the group’s signature harmonies and helped solidify their popularity during the American folk revival.
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D.
Anywhere but Here
Anywhere but Here is a 1986 coming-of-age novel by Mona Simpson that follows a restless mother and her precocious daughter as they leave the Midwest for California in search of a better life.
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E.
Ticket To Nowhere
"Ticket To Nowhere" is a song recorded by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, featured on their 1970 album *Tell It All Brother*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Little Creatures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Talking Heads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionIrishSingles | 6 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 6 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSMainstreamRock | 25 ⓘ |
| composer | David Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ |
| hasBside | Television Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | widely praised ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
accordion
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme |
mortality
ⓘ
the future ⓘ uncertainty ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | upbeat ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Road to Nowhere music video ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideoDirector | David Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature | contrast between upbeat music and existential lyrics ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric |
Come on inside
ⓘ
I can’t tell you ⓘ Maybe you wonder where you are ⓘ We’re on a road to nowhere ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecognition | considered one of Talking Heads’ signature songs ⓘ |
| isOpeningTrackOf | Little Creatures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 4:19 ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Little Creatures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer |
Chris Frantz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Talking Heads NERFINISHED ⓘ Tina Weymouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Eric Thorngren
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Talking Heads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
ⓘ
Sire Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| writer | David Byrne 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: Road to Nowhere Description of subject: "Road to Nowhere" is a 1985 song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, known for its upbeat sound paired with lyrics about uncertainty and the future.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.