Hot Knife
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"Hot Knife" is a minimalist, rhythmically driven closing track by Fiona Apple from her critically acclaimed album "The Idler Wheel..."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hot Knife canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10006905 — 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: Hot Knife Context triple: [The Idler Wheel..., hasTrack, Hot Knife]
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A.
Firin' Up
Firin' Up is a country rock album by American band Pure Prairie League, released in 1980 and best known for the hit single "Let Me Love You Tonight."
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B.
Barb Wire
Barb Wire is a 1996 dystopian action film starring Pamela Anderson as a tough, leather-clad nightclub owner and mercenary in a war-torn future America.
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C.
Let 'Em Burn
Let 'Em Burn is a compilation album by New Orleans hip hop group Hot Boys, featuring previously recorded material released after the group had disbanded.
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D.
Blowing Away
"Blowing Away" is a song featured on the album "Living in the USA" by Linda Ronstadt.
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E.
Midnight Yell
Midnight Yell is a famous Texas A&M University tradition in which students and fans gather at midnight before football games for a spirited pep rally led by the Yell Leaders.
- 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: Hot Knife Target entity description: "Hot Knife" is a minimalist, rhythmically driven closing track by Fiona Apple from her critically acclaimed album "The Idler Wheel..."
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A.
Firin' Up
Firin' Up is a country rock album by American band Pure Prairie League, released in 1980 and best known for the hit single "Let Me Love You Tonight."
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B.
Barb Wire
Barb Wire is a 1996 dystopian action film starring Pamela Anderson as a tough, leather-clad nightclub owner and mercenary in a war-torn future America.
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C.
Let 'Em Burn
Let 'Em Burn is a compilation album by New Orleans hip hop group Hot Boys, featuring previously recorded material released after the group had disbanded.
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D.
Blowing Away
"Blowing Away" is a song featured on the album "Living in the USA" by Linda Ronstadt.
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E.
Midnight Yell
Midnight Yell is a famous Texas A&M University tradition in which students and fans gather at midnight before football games for a spirited pep rally led by the Yell Leaders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| album |
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
ⓘ
linked to:
The Idler Wheel...
The Idler Wheel... ⓘ |
| artist | Fiona Apple ⓘ |
| belongsTo | 21st-century popular music ⓘ |
| composer | Fiona Apple ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative pop
ⓘ
art pop ⓘ minimalist music ⓘ |
| hasChorus | repeated line "If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife" ⓘ |
| hasMetaphor | comparison of attraction to butter melting on a hot knife ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
desire
ⓘ
romantic obsession ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Hot Knife ⓘ |
| hasType | studio recording ⓘ |
| includedIn | 2012 studio album The Idler Wheel... ⓘ |
| instrumentation | minimal instrumentation emphasizing vocals and percussion ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lengthApproximate | 4 minutes ⓘ |
| lyricist | Fiona Apple ⓘ |
| medium | audio recording ⓘ |
| musicalCharacteristic |
minimalist arrangement
ⓘ
prominent vocal layering ⓘ repetitive rhythmic patterns ⓘ rhythmically driven ⓘ |
| notableFor |
intense rhythmic focus
ⓘ
percussive vocal style ⓘ use of overlapping vocal lines ⓘ |
| partOf |
Fiona Apple song catalog
ⓘ
discography of Fiona Apple ⓘ |
| percussion | prominent tom and snare patterns ⓘ |
| performer | Fiona Apple ⓘ |
| positionOnAlbum | closing track ⓘ |
| producer |
Charley Drayton
ⓘ
Fiona Apple ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Clean Slate Records
ⓘ
Epic Records ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 2010s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| tempoCharacteristic | up-tempo ⓘ |
| trackNumber | 10 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Fiona Apple ⓘ |
| vocalStyle |
call-and-response layering
ⓘ
multi-tracked harmonies ⓘ |
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: Hot Knife Description of subject: "Hot Knife" is a minimalist, rhythmically driven closing track by Fiona Apple from her critically acclaimed album "The Idler Wheel..."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.