Fast Cars
E550116
"Fast Cars" is a song by the Irish rock band U2, released as a bonus track and B-side during their *How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb* era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fast Cars canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5863444 — 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: Fast Cars Context triple: [Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own, hasBside, Fast Cars]
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A.
Fast Car
"Fast Car" is a critically acclaimed folk-rock song by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman that poignantly explores themes of poverty, hope, and escape.
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B.
SPEED
SPEED was an American cable and satellite television network focused on motorsports and automotive programming.
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C.
Built for Speed
Built for Speed is the autobiography of legendary Isle of Man TT motorcycle racer John McGuinness, chronicling his life and racing career.
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D.
Carros
Carros is a commune in southeastern France situated in the Alpes-Maritimes department near Nice on the French Riviera.
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E.
Drive Fast (The Stuntman)
"Drive Fast (The Stuntman)" is a narrative-driven rock song by Bruce Springsteen that tells the story of a veteran Hollywood stuntman reflecting on risk, aging, and lost love.
- 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: Fast Cars Target entity description: "Fast Cars" is a song by the Irish rock band U2, released as a bonus track and B-side during their *How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb* era.
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A.
Fast Car
"Fast Car" is a critically acclaimed folk-rock song by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman that poignantly explores themes of poverty, hope, and escape.
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B.
SPEED
SPEED was an American cable and satellite television network focused on motorsports and automotive programming.
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C.
Built for Speed
Built for Speed is the autobiography of legendary Isle of Man TT motorcycle racer John McGuinness, chronicling his life and racing career.
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D.
Carros
Carros is a commune in southeastern France situated in the Alpes-Maritimes department near Nice on the French Riviera.
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E.
Drive Fast (The Stuntman)
"Drive Fast (The Stuntman)" is a narrative-driven rock song by Bruce Springsteen that tells the story of a veteran Hollywood stuntman reflecting on risk, aging, and lost love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| artist | U2 ⓘ |
| associatedAlbum | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb ⓘ |
| composer | U2 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasBandMember |
Adam Clayton
ⓘ
Bono ⓘ Larry Mullen Jr. ⓘ The Edge ⓘ |
| hasMusicalArtist | U2 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb era ⓘ |
| performer | U2 ⓘ |
| producer |
Brian Eno
ⓘ
Chris Thomas ⓘ Daniel Lanois ⓘ Flood ⓘ Jacknife Lee ⓘ Nellee Hooper ⓘ Steve Lillywhite ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Interscope Records
ⓘ
Island Records ⓘ |
| releasePeriod |
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb era
ⓘ
linked to:
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
|
| usedAs |
B-side
ⓘ
bonus track ⓘ |
| writer |
Adam Clayton
ⓘ
Bono ⓘ Larry Mullen Jr. ⓘ The Edge ⓘ |
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: Fast Cars Description of subject: "Fast Cars" is a song by the Irish rock band U2, released as a bonus track and B-side during their *How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb* era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bon Jovi album The Circle