What a Waste
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"What a Waste" is a 1978 new wave single by English singer-songwriter Ian Dury, known for its witty, observational lyrics and distinctive pub rock–meets–punk style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| What a Waste canonical | 1 |
| What a Waster | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10850853 — 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: What a Waste Context triple: [Ian Dury, notableWork, What a Waste]
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A.
W.A.S.T.E.
W.A.S.T.E. is a mysterious underground postal system and countercultural network that plays a central symbolic role in Thomas Pynchon's novel *The Crying of Lot 49*.
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B.
Wasted
"Wasted" is a popular emo-rap and trap song by Juice WRLD featuring Lil Uzi Vert, known for its melodic style and themes of heartbreak and substance use.
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C.
Wasted
"Wasted" is a track featured on the country music album "Rodeo" by Garth Brooks.
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D.
Life Wasted
"Life Wasted" is a hard-rocking Pearl Jam song from their 2006 self-titled album, known for its themes of mortality and personal renewal.
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E.
Waste a Moment
"Waste a Moment" is a 2016 alternative rock single by American band Kings of Leon, known for its catchy, anthemic sound and prominent radio airplay.
- 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: What a Waste Target entity description: "What a Waste" is a 1978 new wave single by English singer-songwriter Ian Dury, known for its witty, observational lyrics and distinctive pub rock–meets–punk style.
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A.
W.A.S.T.E.
W.A.S.T.E. is a mysterious underground postal system and countercultural network that plays a central symbolic role in Thomas Pynchon's novel *The Crying of Lot 49*.
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B.
Wasted
"Wasted" is a popular emo-rap and trap song by Juice WRLD featuring Lil Uzi Vert, known for its melodic style and themes of heartbreak and substance use.
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C.
Wasted
"Wasted" is a track featured on the country music album "Rodeo" by Garth Brooks.
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D.
Life Wasted
"Life Wasted" is a hard-rocking Pearl Jam song from their 2006 self-titled album, known for its themes of mortality and personal renewal.
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E.
Waste a Moment
"Waste a Moment" is a 2016 alternative rock single by American band Kings of Leon, known for its catchy, anthemic sound and prominent radio airplay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Ian Dury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Ian Dury and the Blockheads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Ian Dury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
pub rock ⓘ punk rock ⓘ |
| hasLyricStyle |
observational lyrics
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witty lyrics ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | pub rock–meets–punk style ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
blend of pub rock and punk influences
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distinctive vocal delivery by Ian Dury ⓘ witty, observational lyrics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ian Dury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicGenreMovement | new wave ⓘ |
| partOf | Ian Dury discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Ian Dury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Ian Dury and the Blockheads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Ian Dury 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: What a Waste Description of subject: "What a Waste" is a 1978 new wave single by English singer-songwriter Ian Dury, known for its witty, observational lyrics and distinctive pub rock–meets–punk style.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
What a Waster