The Waiting
E111273
"The Waiting" is a popular rock song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for its jangly guitars and reflective lyrics about anticipation and patience.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Waiting canonical | 8 |
| The Waiting (live) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T922761 — 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: The Waiting Context triple: [Tom Petty, notableWork, The Waiting]
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A.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
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B.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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C.
Hold Back the Dawn
Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 romantic drama film about a European gigolo who schemes to marry an American schoolteacher to gain U.S. citizenship, co-written by Billy Wilder.
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D.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
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E.
Sleep Now in the Fire
"Sleep Now in the Fire" is a politically charged rap metal song by Rage Against the Machine, known for its critique of capitalism and its controversial music video directed by Michael Moore.
- 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: The Waiting Target entity description: "The Waiting" is a popular rock song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for its jangly guitars and reflective lyrics about anticipation and patience.
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A.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
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B.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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C.
Hold Back the Dawn
Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 romantic drama film about a European gigolo who schemes to marry an American schoolteacher to gain U.S. citizenship, co-written by Billy Wilder.
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D.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
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E.
Sleep Now in the Fire
"Sleep Now in the Fire" is a politically charged rap metal song by Rage Against the Machine, known for its critique of capitalism and its controversial music video directed by Michael Moore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: The Waiting Description of subject: "The Waiting" is a popular rock song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for its jangly guitars and reflective lyrics about anticipation and patience.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Waiting