Terrible Thing
E742404
Terrible Thing is a song by The Killers from their album "Pressure Machine," noted for its somber tone and narrative-driven lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Terrible Thing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8569177 — 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: Terrible Thing Context triple: [Pressure Machine, hasPart, Terrible Thing]
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A.
Bad Things
"Bad Things" is a Southern rock song by Jace Everett best known as the theme music for the HBO vampire drama series True Blood.
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B.
This Can't Be Good
"This Can't Be Good" is a song by the American rock band Discipline, known for their dark, progressive rock style.
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C.
A Bad Night
"A Bad Night" is a poem by A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, included in his children's poetry collection "When We Were Very Young."
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D.
Bad Is Bad
"Bad Is Bad" is a rock song by Huey Lewis and the News, featured on their hit 1983 album "Sports."
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E.
Yer So Bad
"Yer So Bad" is a song by Tom Petty from his 1989 solo album "Full Moon Fever," known for its wry lyrics and acoustic, folk-rock style.
- 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: Terrible Thing Target entity description: Terrible Thing is a song by The Killers from their album "Pressure Machine," noted for its somber tone and narrative-driven lyrics.
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A.
Bad Things
"Bad Things" is a Southern rock song by Jace Everett best known as the theme music for the HBO vampire drama series True Blood.
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B.
This Can't Be Good
"This Can't Be Good" is a song by the American rock band Discipline, known for their dark, progressive rock style.
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C.
A Bad Night
"A Bad Night" is a poem by A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, included in his children's poetry collection "When We Were Very Young."
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D.
Bad Is Bad
"Bad Is Bad" is a rock song by Huey Lewis and the News, featured on their hit 1983 album "Sports."
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E.
Yer So Bad
"Yer So Bad" is a song by Tom Petty from his 1989 solo album "Full Moon Fever," known for its wry lyrics and acoustic, folk-rock style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| album | Pressure Machine ⓘ |
| artist | The Killers ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Killers ⓘ |
| composer | Brandon Flowers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ guitars ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeStyle | storytelling lyrics ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | melancholic vocals ⓘ |
| includedIn |
The Killers discography
ⓘ
linked to:
The Killers
|
| isTrackOn | Pressure Machine ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
personal struggle
ⓘ
small-town life ⓘ social issues ⓘ |
| lyricist | Brandon Flowers ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | character-driven storytelling ⓘ |
| partOf | Pressure Machine ⓘ |
| performer | The Killers ⓘ |
| productionType | studio recording ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | The Killers ⓘ |
| releaseContext | studio album track ⓘ |
| tone | somber ⓘ |
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: Terrible Thing Description of subject: Terrible Thing is a song by The Killers from their album "Pressure Machine," noted for its somber tone and narrative-driven lyrics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.