The Captain and the Hourglass
E761931
"The Captain and the Hourglass" is a song by the British rock band The Cribs from their album "Alas, I Cannot Swim."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Captain and the Hourglass canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8839779 — 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 Captain and the Hourglass Context triple: [Alas, I Cannot Swim, hasTrack, The Captain and the Hourglass]
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A.
The Captain Hates the Sea
The Captain Hates the Sea is a 1934 American comedy film written by Guy Bolton that follows a motley group of passengers aboard an ocean liner, blending farce, crime, and romance.
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B.
Hourglass
Hourglass is a Grammy-winning 1997 studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor that blends introspective lyrics with polished folk-rock and soft rock arrangements.
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C.
Hourglass
"Hourglass" is a track featured on Snoop Dogg's 2002 studio album "Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss."
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D.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Willis Reed, the Hall of Fame center and emotional leader of the New York Knicks dynasty of the early 1970s.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Steve Yzerman, the longtime Detroit Red Wings star and Hall of Fame center renowned for his leadership and three Stanley Cup championships.
- 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 Captain and the Hourglass Target entity description: "The Captain and the Hourglass" is a song by the British rock band The Cribs from their album "Alas, I Cannot Swim."
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A.
The Captain Hates the Sea
The Captain Hates the Sea is a 1934 American comedy film written by Guy Bolton that follows a motley group of passengers aboard an ocean liner, blending farce, crime, and romance.
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B.
Hourglass
Hourglass is a Grammy-winning 1997 studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor that blends introspective lyrics with polished folk-rock and soft rock arrangements.
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C.
Hourglass
"Hourglass" is a track featured on Snoop Dogg's 2002 studio album "Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss."
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D.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Willis Reed, the Hall of Fame center and emotional leader of the New York Knicks dynasty of the early 1970s.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Steve Yzerman, the longtime Detroit Red Wings star and Hall of Fame center renowned for his leadership and three Stanley Cup championships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| artist | The Cribs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | rock ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| performer | The Cribs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Captain and the Hourglass Description of subject: "The Captain and the Hourglass" is a song by the British rock band The Cribs from their album "Alas, I Cannot Swim."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.