Life on a String
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Life on a String is a 2001 experimental art-pop album by American avant-garde musician Laurie Anderson, blending spoken word, electronic textures, and violin-driven compositions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Life on a String canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8787356 — 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: Life on a String Context triple: [Laurie Anderson, notableWork, Life on a String]
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A.
World on a String
"World on a String" is a song best known as a classic pop standard popularized by Frank Sinatra and other traditional pop and jazz vocalists.
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B.
No Strings
No Strings is a 1962 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers, notable for being his first show without longtime collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II and for its jazz-influenced score.
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C.
A String of Pearls
"A String of Pearls" is a classic big band jazz instrumental from the early 1940s, best known through Glenn Miller's hugely popular swing-era recording.
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D.
I’ve Got the World on a String
"I’ve Got the World on a String" is a popular American standard from the Great American Songbook, best known through classic jazz and pop vocal performances.
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E.
The Unstrung Harp
The Unstrung Harp is a darkly comic illustrated novella by Edward Gorey that follows the misadventures and anxieties of an aging novelist as he struggles to write his latest book.
- 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: Life on a String Target entity description: Life on a String is a 2001 experimental art-pop album by American avant-garde musician Laurie Anderson, blending spoken word, electronic textures, and violin-driven compositions.
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A.
World on a String
"World on a String" is a song best known as a classic pop standard popularized by Frank Sinatra and other traditional pop and jazz vocalists.
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B.
No Strings
No Strings is a 1962 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers, notable for being his first show without longtime collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II and for its jazz-influenced score.
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C.
A String of Pearls
"A String of Pearls" is a classic big band jazz instrumental from the early 1940s, best known through Glenn Miller's hugely popular swing-era recording.
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D.
I’ve Got the World on a String
"I’ve Got the World on a String" is a popular American standard from the Great American Songbook, best known through classic jazz and pop vocal performances.
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E.
The Unstrung Harp
The Unstrung Harp is a darkly comic illustrated novella by Edward Gorey that follows the misadventures and anxieties of an aging novelist as he struggles to write his latest book.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Laurie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicallyFollows | The Ugly One with the Jewels and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicallyPrecedes | Live at Town Hall, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Laurie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Laurie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| decade | 2000s ⓘ |
| featuresElement | spoken word narration ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
electronics
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violin ⓘ |
| genre |
art pop
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avant-garde ⓘ contemporary classical ⓘ electronic ⓘ experimental ⓘ spoken word ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Broken
NERFINISHED
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Dark Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ Here With You NERFINISHED ⓘ It Tango NERFINISHED ⓘ Life on a String (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ My Compensation NERFINISHED ⓘ One Beautiful Evening NERFINISHED ⓘ Pieces and Parts NERFINISHED ⓘ Pieces of My Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Slip Away NERFINISHED ⓘ Statue of Liberty NERFINISHED ⓘ The Island Where I Come From NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStyle | narrative song cycle ⓘ |
| hasType | avant-garde music album ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainPerformer | Laurie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
CD
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digital audio ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Laurie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Laurie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Hal Willner
NERFINISHED
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Laurie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2001 ⓘ |
| publisher | Nonesuch Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Nonesuch Records
NERFINISHED
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Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| uses |
electronic textures
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violin-driven compositions ⓘ |
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: Life on a String Description of subject: Life on a String is a 2001 experimental art-pop album by American avant-garde musician Laurie Anderson, blending spoken word, electronic textures, and violin-driven compositions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.