And She Was
E497184
"And She Was" is a 1985 new wave song by Talking Heads, known for its surreal lyrics and upbeat, guitar-driven sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| And She Was canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5144601 — 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: And She Was Context triple: [Talking Heads, notableWork, And She Was]
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A.
While She Was Out
While She Was Out is a 2008 thriller film starring Kim Basinger as a suburban housewife who must fight for survival after being hunted through the woods by a group of violent thugs.
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B.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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C.
Her Too
"Her Too" is a soulful R&B song by American singer-songwriter SiR, known for its smooth production and introspective lyrics.
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D.
She Was Too Good to Me
"She Was Too Good to Me" is a 1974 jazz album by trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker that marked his celebrated comeback after years away from the recording scene.
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E.
She’s Not for You
"She’s Not for You" is a country song by Willie Nelson featured on his 1973 album *Shotgun Willie*.
- 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: And She Was Target entity description: "And She Was" is a 1985 new wave song by Talking Heads, known for its surreal lyrics and upbeat, guitar-driven sound.
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A.
While She Was Out
While She Was Out is a 2008 thriller film starring Kim Basinger as a suburban housewife who must fight for survival after being hunted through the woods by a group of violent thugs.
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B.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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C.
Her Too
"Her Too" is a soulful R&B song by American singer-songwriter SiR, known for its smooth production and introspective lyrics.
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D.
She Was Too Good to Me
"She Was Too Good to Me" is a 1974 jazz album by trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker that marked his celebrated comeback after years away from the recording scene.
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E.
She’s Not for You
"She’s Not for You" is a country song by Willie Nelson featured on his 1973 album *Shotgun Willie*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Little Creatures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Talking Heads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 17 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 54 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardMainstreamRock | 12 ⓘ |
| chronology | Talking Heads singles chronology ⓘ |
| composer | David Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBy | Road to Nowhere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| hasLyricalCharacteristic | surreal lyrics ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
guitar-driven sound
ⓘ
upbeat tempo ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | And She Was (music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
bright, pop-oriented arrangement
ⓘ
catchy chorus ⓘ storytelling lyrics ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatter | woman who can levitate ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Little Creatures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfMovement | 1980s new wave music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:36 ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Jim Blashfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Talking Heads discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Talking Heads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Slippery People NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Eric Thorngren
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Talking Heads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1985 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
ⓘ
Sire Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1985-08-26 ⓘ |
| 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: And She Was Description of subject: "And She Was" is a 1985 new wave song by Talking Heads, known for its surreal lyrics and upbeat, guitar-driven sound.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.