Desperate Things
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"Desperate Things" is a song by The Killers from their concept album Pressure Machine, known for its dark, narrative-driven lyrics and atmospheric, small-town storytelling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Desperate Things canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8569183 — 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: Desperate Things Context triple: [Pressure Machine, hasPart, Desperate Things]
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A.
Desperate Man
Desperate Man is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Eric Church, noted for its blend of outlaw country, rock influences, and introspective storytelling.
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B.
Desperate Journey
Desperate Journey is a 1942 World War II adventure film starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan, known for its patriotic tone and story of Allied airmen escaping from Nazi-occupied Europe.
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C.
These Things Too
"These Things Too" is a comic collection from the satirical newspaper strip Pearls Before Swine by cartoonist Stephan Pastis.
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D.
The Weary Kind
"The Weary Kind" is a country ballad written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for the film "Crazy Heart," widely recognized for its poignant portrayal of a washed-up musician's struggles.
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E.
The Troubled Man
The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
- 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: Desperate Things Target entity description: "Desperate Things" is a song by The Killers from their concept album Pressure Machine, known for its dark, narrative-driven lyrics and atmospheric, small-town storytelling.
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A.
Desperate Man
Desperate Man is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Eric Church, noted for its blend of outlaw country, rock influences, and introspective storytelling.
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B.
Desperate Journey
Desperate Journey is a 1942 World War II adventure film starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan, known for its patriotic tone and story of Allied airmen escaping from Nazi-occupied Europe.
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C.
These Things Too
"These Things Too" is a comic collection from the satirical newspaper strip Pearls Before Swine by cartoonist Stephan Pastis.
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D.
The Weary Kind
"The Weary Kind" is a country ballad written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for the film "Crazy Heart," widely recognized for its poignant portrayal of a washed-up musician's struggles.
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E.
The Troubled Man
The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| album | Pressure Machine ⓘ |
| artist | The Killers ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Brandon Flowers
ⓘ
Dave Keuning ⓘ Mark Stoermer ⓘ Ronnie Vannucci Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasQuality | atmospheric ⓘ |
| includedIn | Pressure Machine track list ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricStyle |
narrative-driven
ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
crime
ⓘ
dark narrative ⓘ moral conflict ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
| narrativeSetting | small American town ⓘ |
| partOf | Pressure Machine ⓘ |
| performer | The Killers ⓘ |
| producer |
Jonathan Rado
ⓘ
Shawn Everett ⓘ The Killers ⓘ |
| publisher |
EMI
ⓘ
Island Records ⓘ |
| recordingArtistNationality | American ⓘ |
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: Desperate Things Description of subject: "Desperate Things" is a song by The Killers from their concept album Pressure Machine, known for its dark, narrative-driven lyrics and atmospheric, small-town storytelling.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.