War
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"War" is a 1970 protest soul song by Edwin Starr, famous for its powerful anti-war message and the iconic refrain "War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| War canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11305238 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: War Context triple: [Edwin Starr, notableWork, War]
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War
War is a small town in McDowell County, West Virginia, known as one of the southernmost communities in the state and for its history as a coal mining town.
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War
"War" is a musical track from the film score of James Cameron's 2009 science fiction epic "Avatar," composed by James Horner.
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War
"War" is a nonfiction book by Sebastian Junger that chronicles the experiences of American soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, exploring the psychology, brotherhood, and brutality of modern combat.
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War
War is an American funk and soul band best known for their 1970s hits blending rock, jazz, Latin, and R&B influences, including songs like "Low Rider" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?".
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War
"War" is a politically charged reggae song by Bob Marley & The Wailers, best known for its lyrics adapted from a speech by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I calling for global peace and equality.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: War Target entity description: "War" is a 1970 protest soul song by Edwin Starr, famous for its powerful anti-war message and the iconic refrain "War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"
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War
"War" is a politically charged reggae song by Bob Marley & The Wailers, best known for its lyrics adapted from a speech by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I calling for global peace and equality.
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War
War is U2’s politically charged 1983 rock album known for its anthemic songs and focus on themes of conflict and social justice.
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War
War is an American funk and soul band best known for their 1970s hits blending rock, jazz, Latin, and R&B influences, including songs like "Low Rider" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?".
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War
"War" is a musical track from the film score of James Cameron's 2009 science fiction epic "Avatar," composed by James Horner.
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War
"War" is a nonfiction book by Sebastian Junger that chronicles the experiences of American soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, exploring the psychology, brotherhood, and brutality of modern combat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: War Description of subject: "War" is a 1970 protest soul song by Edwin Starr, famous for its powerful anti-war message and the iconic refrain "War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.