18 and Life
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"18 and Life" is a power ballad by American heavy metal band Skid Row that became one of their biggest hits in the late 1980s, telling a cautionary story of youth, violence, and regret.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 18 and Life canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6738985 — 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: 18 and Life Context triple: [Skid Row, hasHitSong, 18 and Life]
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Youth
"Youth" is a section of Peter Kropotkin’s autobiographical work *Memoirs of a Revolutionist*, recounting his early life and formative experiences.
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B.
Youth
"Youth" is a melancholic, synth-driven indie pop song by British band Glass Animals that reflects on nostalgia, loss, and the fragility of childhood.
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C.
Youth
"Youth" is a short story by Joseph Conrad that recounts a young sailor's first voyage to the East and reflects on the idealism and resilience of early adulthood.
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D.
Youth
Youth is a British musician and record producer best known as the bassist and founding member of the band Killing Joke and for his influential work in post-punk and electronic music.
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E.
Young Americans
"Young Americans" is a 1975 soul-influenced song by David Bowie that marked his stylistic shift toward "plastic soul" and became one of his signature hits.
- 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: 18 and Life Target entity description: "18 and Life" is a power ballad by American heavy metal band Skid Row that became one of their biggest hits in the late 1980s, telling a cautionary story of youth, violence, and regret.
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A.
Youth
"Youth" is a section of Peter Kropotkin’s autobiographical work *Memoirs of a Revolutionist*, recounting his early life and formative experiences.
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B.
Youth
Youth is a British musician and record producer best known as the bassist and founding member of the band Killing Joke and for his influential work in post-punk and electronic music.
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C.
Youth
"Youth" is a melancholic, synth-driven indie pop song by British band Glass Animals that reflects on nostalgia, loss, and the fragility of childhood.
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D.
Youth
"Youth" is a short story by Joseph Conrad that recounts a young sailor's first voyage to the East and reflects on the idealism and resilience of early adulthood.
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E.
Young Americans
"Young Americans" is a 1975 soul-influenced song by David Bowie that marked his stylistic shift toward "plastic soul" and became one of his signature hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: 18 and Life Description of subject: "18 and Life" is a power ballad by American heavy metal band Skid Row that became one of their biggest hits in the late 1980s, telling a cautionary story of youth, violence, and regret.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.