Way to Normal
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Way to Normal is a 2008 studio album by American singer-songwriter and pianist Ben Folds, known for its energetic piano rock sound and witty, narrative-driven lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Way to Normal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9832232 — 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: Way to Normal Context triple: [Ben Folds, notableWork, Way to Normal]
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Attempting Normal
Attempting Normal is a comedic memoir by stand-up comedian and podcaster Marc Maron, chronicling his personal struggles, career setbacks, and search for meaning with raw honesty and dark humor.
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Normal
Normal is a Mexico City Metro station on Line 2 that serves the San Rafael neighborhood near several educational institutions.
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C.
Normal
Normal is a central Illinois town best known as the home of Illinois State University and part of the twin-city community with Bloomington.
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Norm
Norm is a masculine given name, often a shortened form of Norman, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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Approaching Normal
Approaching Normal is a studio album by American alternative rock band Blue October, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and polished, radio-friendly sound.
- 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: Way to Normal Target entity description: Way to Normal is a 2008 studio album by American singer-songwriter and pianist Ben Folds, known for its energetic piano rock sound and witty, narrative-driven lyrics.
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A.
Attempting Normal
Attempting Normal is a comedic memoir by stand-up comedian and podcaster Marc Maron, chronicling his personal struggles, career setbacks, and search for meaning with raw honesty and dark humor.
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B.
Normal
Normal is a Mexico City Metro station on Line 2 that serves the San Rafael neighborhood near several educational institutions.
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C.
Normal
Normal is a central Illinois town best known as the home of Illinois State University and part of the twin-city community with Bloomington.
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D.
Norm
Norm is a masculine given name, often a shortened form of Norman, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Approaching Normal
Approaching Normal is a studio album by American alternative rock band Blue October, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and polished, radio-friendly sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Ben Folds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresArtist | Regina Spektor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Lonely Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Songs for Silverman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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piano rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverArt | Way to Normal album cover ⓘ |
| hasEdition | deluxe edition ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 45 minutes ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Bitch Went Nuts
NERFINISHED
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Brainwascht NERFINISHED ⓘ Cologne NERFINISHED ⓘ Dr. Yang NERFINISHED ⓘ Effington NERFINISHED ⓘ Errant Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ Free Coffee ⓘ Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kylie from Connecticut ⓘ The Frown Song NERFINISHED ⓘ You Don’t Know Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSingle |
Cologne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head) NERFINISHED ⓘ You Don’t Know Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
humor in everyday life
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personal turmoil ⓘ relationships ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricStyle |
narrative-driven
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witty ⓘ |
| mainInstrument | piano ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Ben Folds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Ben Folds discography ⓘ |
| performer | Ben Folds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Ben Folds
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dennis Herring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | Nashville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Epic Records
ⓘ
Sony BMG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2008-09-30 ⓘ |
| yearOfRelease | 2008 ⓘ |
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: Way to Normal Description of subject: Way to Normal is a 2008 studio album by American singer-songwriter and pianist Ben Folds, known for its energetic piano rock sound and witty, narrative-driven lyrics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.