Slide
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"Slide" is a popular alternative rock song by the Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1998 and known for its melodic hooks and prominent radio airplay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Slide canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10994277 — 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: Slide Context triple: [Goo Goo Dolls, notableWork, Slide]
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A.
Slide
Slide was a social media application company best known for creating widgets and apps for platforms like MySpace and Facebook before being acquired by Google.
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B.
Slider
Slider is the furry, family-friendly mascot of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball team, known for entertaining fans with on-field antics and community appearances.
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C.
Slider
Slider is the furry, pink, dinosaur-like mascot of Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians), known for his playful antics and colorful appearance at games.
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D.
Carousel
Carousel is a landmark 1945 American musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, renowned for its poignant story, innovative integration of song and narrative, and enduring songs like "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone."
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E.
Carousel
The Carousel in Prospect Park is a historic, hand-carved amusement ride that serves as a beloved family attraction within the Brooklyn park.
- 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: Slide Target entity description: "Slide" is a popular alternative rock song by the Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1998 and known for its melodic hooks and prominent radio airplay.
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A.
Slide
Slide was a social media application company best known for creating widgets and apps for platforms like MySpace and Facebook before being acquired by Google.
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B.
Slider
Slider is the furry, family-friendly mascot of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball team, known for entertaining fans with on-field antics and community appearances.
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C.
Slider
Slider is the furry, pink, dinosaur-like mascot of Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians), known for his playful antics and colorful appearance at games.
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D.
Carousel
Carousel is a landmark 1945 American musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, renowned for its poignant story, innovative integration of song and narrative, and enduring songs like "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone."
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E.
Carousel
The Carousel in Prospect Park is a historic, hand-carved amusement ride that serves as a beloved family attraction within the Brooklyn park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Goo Goo Dolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
ARIA Singles Chart (Australia) top 30
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billboard Adult Top 40 number 1 ⓘ Billboard Hot 100 number 8 ⓘ Billboard Mainstream Top 40 number 1 ⓘ Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ RPM Canada Top Singles number 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ UK Singles Chart number 43 ⓘ |
| chronology | Goo Goo Dolls singles chronology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | John Rzeznik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBy | Black Balloon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Iris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
jangle pop ⓘ |
| hasBSide |
Acoustic #3
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Naked ⓘ Nothing Can Change You NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
7-inch single
ⓘ
CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| hasISRC | USWB19802964 ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Slide music video ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideoDirector | Nancy Bardawil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | Goo Goo Dolls greatest hits compilations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:33 ⓘ |
| lyricist | John Rzeznik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | recorded music ⓘ |
| notableFor |
heavy radio airplay
ⓘ
melodic hooks ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Dizzy Up the Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Goo Goo Dolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Goo Goo Dolls
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rob Cavallo ⓘ |
| publicationType | commercial single ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1998 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1998-09-29 ⓘ |
| theme |
pregnancy
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religious conflict ⓘ young love ⓘ |
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: Slide Description of subject: "Slide" is a popular alternative rock song by the Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1998 and known for its melodic hooks and prominent radio airplay.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Back of My Mind