Yesterday
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"Yesterday" is a 1965 Beatles ballad, primarily written by Paul McCartney, renowned for its melancholic melody and string quartet arrangement and considered one of the most covered songs in popular music history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yesterday canonical | 32 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T835401 — 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: Yesterday Context triple: [The Beatles, notableSong, Yesterday]
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Yesterday
Yesterday is a 2019 British romantic comedy film with a musical twist, centered on a struggling musician who wakes up in a world where only he remembers the songs of The Beatles.
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B.
Ayer
Ayer is a small town in north-central Massachusetts that functions as a regional commuter hub with rail connections to Boston.
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Today
Today is a long-running American morning news and talk show on NBC featuring news coverage, interviews, and lifestyle segments.
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Today
Today is BBC Radio 4’s leading early-morning news and current affairs programme, featuring in-depth interviews, reports, and analysis of national and international events.
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E.
Day
"Day" is a memoir by Elie Wiesel that continues his reflection on Holocaust survival and its psychological aftermath, following the events depicted in "Night."
- 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: Yesterday Target entity description: "Yesterday" is a 1965 Beatles ballad, primarily written by Paul McCartney, renowned for its melancholic melody and string quartet arrangement and considered one of the most covered songs in popular music history.
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A.
Yesterday
Yesterday is a 2019 British romantic comedy film with a musical twist, centered on a struggling musician who wakes up in a world where only he remembers the songs of The Beatles.
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B.
Ayer
Ayer is a small town in north-central Massachusetts that functions as a regional commuter hub with rail connections to Boston.
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C.
Today
Today is a long-running American morning news and talk show on NBC featuring news coverage, interviews, and lifestyle segments.
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D.
Today
Today is BBC Radio 4’s leading early-morning news and current affairs programme, featuring in-depth interviews, reports, and analysis of national and international events.
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E.
Day
"Day" is a memoir by Elie Wiesel that continues his reflection on Holocaust survival and its psychological aftermath, following the events depicted in "Night."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Yesterday Description of subject: "Yesterday" is a 1965 Beatles ballad, primarily written by Paul McCartney, renowned for its melancholic melody and string quartet arrangement and considered one of the most covered songs in popular music history.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Beatles 1 compilation album
subject linked to:
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
subject linked to:
critically acclaimed project "Telefone"
subject linked to:
Rockshow (concert film)
subject linked to:
Give My Regards to Broad Street