Vökuró
E800026
Vökuró is an Icelandic choral piece, originally by Jórunn Viðar and later arranged and popularized by Björk for her album Medúlla.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vökuró canonical | 3 |
| Vökuró (Icelandic) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9428043 — 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: Vökuró Context triple: [Medúlla, includesTrack, Vökuró]
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A.
Forseti Íslands
Forseti Íslands is the Icelandic term for the President of Iceland, the country's head of state.
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B.
Brattahlíð
Brattahlíð was the main Norse farmstead and power center in southern Greenland, established by Erik the Red around the late 10th century.
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C.
Svíar
Svíar are the Old Norse term for the Svear, an early North Germanic people who inhabited central Sweden and played a key role in the formation of the Swedish kingdom.
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D.
Güímar
Güímar is a municipality on the eastern coast of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its agricultural landscape and the archaeological site of the Pyramids of Güímar.
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E.
Vágar
Vágar is one of the main islands of the Faroe Islands, known for hosting the archipelago’s only airport and serving as a key transport hub.
- 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: Vökuró Target entity description: Vökuró is an Icelandic choral piece, originally by Jórunn Viðar and later arranged and popularized by Björk for her album Medúlla.
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A.
Forseti Íslands
Forseti Íslands is the Icelandic term for the President of Iceland, the country's head of state.
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B.
Brattahlíð
Brattahlíð was the main Norse farmstead and power center in southern Greenland, established by Erik the Red around the late 10th century.
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C.
Svíar
Svíar are the Old Norse term for the Svear, an early North Germanic people who inhabited central Sweden and played a key role in the formation of the Swedish kingdom.
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D.
Güímar
Güímar is a municipality on the eastern coast of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its agricultural landscape and the archaeological site of the Pyramids of Güímar.
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E.
Vágar
Vágar is one of the main islands of the Faroe Islands, known for hosting the archipelago’s only airport and serving as a key transport hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
choral piece
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist |
Björk
ⓘ
linked to:
Bjork
|
| associatedWithComposer | Jórunn Viðar ⓘ |
| composer | Jórunn Viðar ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iceland ⓘ |
| genre |
art song
ⓘ
choral music ⓘ |
| hasArrangement |
Björk’s Medúlla arrangement
ⓘ
linked to:
Medúlla (Björk album)
|
| hasArranger |
Björk
ⓘ
linked to:
Bjork
|
| hasCulturalContext | Icelandic music tradition ⓘ |
| hasMusicalTexture |
choral
ⓘ
vocal ensemble ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording |
Björk – Medúlla version
ⓘ
linked to:
Medúlla (Björk album)
|
| hasNotableRecordingArtist |
Björk
ⓘ
linked to:
Bjork
|
| hasTitleInLanguage |
Vökuró (Icelandic)
ⓘ
linked to:
Vökuró
|
| includedInAlbum | Medúlla ⓘ |
| language | Icelandic ⓘ |
| lyricsType | lullaby-like ⓘ |
| notableArrangementBy |
Björk
ⓘ
linked to:
Bjork
|
| originalLanguage | Icelandic ⓘ |
| originalMedium | choral performance ⓘ |
| partOf | Icelandic choral repertoire ⓘ |
| performer |
Björk
ⓘ
linked to:
Bjork
|
| popularizedBy |
Björk
ⓘ
linked to:
Bjork
|
| vocalStyle | a cappella ⓘ |
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: Vökuró Description of subject: Vökuró is an Icelandic choral piece, originally by Jórunn Viðar and later arranged and popularized by Björk for her album Medúlla.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
"Medúlla" means "marrow" in Latin
linked to: Vökuró
subject linked to:
Medúlla (Björk album)