The Importance of Being Idle
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"The Importance of Being Idle" is a Britpop song by the English rock band Oasis, released as a single from their 2005 album "Don't Believe the Truth" and known for its retro, Kinks-inspired sound and wry lyrics about laziness and apathy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Importance of Being Idle canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7943274 — 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: The Importance of Being Idle Context triple: [Don't Believe the Truth, hasPart, The Importance of Being Idle]
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A.
The Very Idea
The Very Idea is a 1920 American silent comedy film, now considered lost, that satirized contemporary notions of eugenics and scientific matchmaking.
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B.
Just Wait
"Just Wait" is a song by the American rock band Surfer Blood, known for their melodic indie rock sound.
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C.
Nature Abhors a Vacuum
Nature Abhors a Vacuum is an abstract color field painting by American artist Helen Frankenthaler, exemplifying her innovative soak-stain technique and lyrical use of color.
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D.
Waiting for God
"Waiting for God" is a posthumously published collection of spiritual and philosophical essays and letters by Simone Weil that explores themes of faith, suffering, and the search for God.
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E.
The Indifferent
"The Indifferent" is a small, elegant painting by French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, depicting a solitary, gracefully posed figure that exemplifies his delicate brushwork and subtle, introspective mood.
- 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: The Importance of Being Idle Target entity description: "The Importance of Being Idle" is a Britpop song by the English rock band Oasis, released as a single from their 2005 album "Don't Believe the Truth" and known for its retro, Kinks-inspired sound and wry lyrics about laziness and apathy.
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A.
The Very Idea
The Very Idea is a 1920 American silent comedy film, now considered lost, that satirized contemporary notions of eugenics and scientific matchmaking.
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B.
Just Wait
"Just Wait" is a song by the American rock band Surfer Blood, known for their melodic indie rock sound.
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C.
Nature Abhors a Vacuum
Nature Abhors a Vacuum is an abstract color field painting by American artist Helen Frankenthaler, exemplifying her innovative soak-stain technique and lyrical use of color.
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D.
Waiting for God
"Waiting for God" is a posthumously published collection of spiritual and philosophical essays and letters by Simone Weil that explores themes of faith, suffering, and the search for God.
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E.
The Indifferent
"The Indifferent" is a small, elegant painting by French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, depicting a solitary, gracefully posed figure that exemplifies his delicate brushwork and subtle, introspective mood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: The Importance of Being Idle Description of subject: "The Importance of Being Idle" is a Britpop song by the English rock band Oasis, released as a single from their 2005 album "Don't Believe the Truth" and known for its retro, Kinks-inspired sound and wry lyrics about laziness and apathy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.