Left of Center
E759486
"Left of Center" is a 1986 alternative folk-pop song by Suzanne Vega, best known for its appearance on the soundtrack of the film *Pretty in Pink*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Left of Center canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8808547 — 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: Left of Center Context triple: [Suzanne Vega, hasSong, Left of Center]
-
A.
The Left
The Left is a political group in the European Parliament that unites left-wing, socialist, and progressive parties from across the European Union.
-
B.
Left Powerhouse
Left Powerhouse is one of the major hydroelectric generating stations within the Grand Coulee Dam complex on the Columbia River in Washington State.
-
C.
Left Unity
Left Unity was a coalition of left-wing and green political parties in the European Parliament that served as the forerunner to the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.
-
D.
Democratic Left
Democratic Left was an Irish political party that emerged in the 1990s as a democratic socialist and social-democratic force, later merging with the Labour Party.
-
E.
Democratic Left
Democratic Left was a British left-wing political organization that emerged from the dissolution of the Communist Party of Great Britain and sought to promote democratic socialist and green politics.
- 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: Left of Center Target entity description: "Left of Center" is a 1986 alternative folk-pop song by Suzanne Vega, best known for its appearance on the soundtrack of the film *Pretty in Pink*.
-
A.
The Left
The Left is a political group in the European Parliament that unites left-wing, socialist, and progressive parties from across the European Union.
-
B.
Left Powerhouse
Left Powerhouse is one of the major hydroelectric generating stations within the Grand Coulee Dam complex on the Columbia River in Washington State.
-
C.
Left Unity
Left Unity was a coalition of left-wing and green political parties in the European Parliament that served as the forerunner to the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.
-
D.
Democratic Left
Democratic Left was an Irish political party that emerged in the 1990s as a democratic socialist and social-democratic force, later merging with the Labour Party.
-
E.
Democratic Left
Democratic Left was a British left-wing political organization that emerged from the dissolution of the Communist Party of Great Britain and sought to promote democratic socialist and green politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Suzanne Vega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedFilm | Pretty in Pink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustralia | 96 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 32 ⓘ |
| chronology | Suzanne Vega singles chronology ⓘ |
| composer | Suzanne Vega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1980s ⓘ |
| featuredMusician | Joe Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
folk-pop ⓘ pop rock ⓘ |
| hasBside | Undertow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ piano ⓘ saxophone ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Left of Center music video ⓘ |
| includedIn | Suzanne Vega compilation albums ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:33 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Suzanne Vega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextSingle | Gypsy ⓘ |
| notableFor | appearance on Pretty in Pink soundtrack ⓘ |
| partOf | Pretty in Pink: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSoundtrack | Pretty in Pink (soundtrack) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Suzanne Vega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousSingle | Marlene on the Wall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Arthur Baker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steve Addabbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
A&M Records
ⓘ
WEA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1986-05-30 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| theme | outsider perspective ⓘ |
| vocalist | Suzanne Vega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writtenFor | film Pretty in Pink ⓘ |
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: Left of Center Description of subject: "Left of Center" is a 1986 alternative folk-pop song by Suzanne Vega, best known for its appearance on the soundtrack of the film *Pretty in Pink*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.