The Fly
E130323
"The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fly canonical | 8 |
| The Fly (music video) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1130755 — 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 Fly Context triple: [Achtung Baby, hasPart, The Fly]
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A.
Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 gothic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton about a gentle artificial man with scissors for hands who struggles to find acceptance in a suburban community.
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B.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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C.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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D.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 low-budget science fiction horror film directed by Ed Wood, widely regarded as one of the most infamous "so-bad-it's-good" cult movies in cinema history.
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E.
Son of Frankenstein
Son of Frankenstein is a 1939 Universal horror film that continues the Frankenstein saga, following the son of the original doctor as he revives the Monster with disastrous results.
- 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 Fly Target entity description: "The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
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A.
Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 gothic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton about a gentle artificial man with scissors for hands who struggles to find acceptance in a suburban community.
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B.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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C.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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D.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 low-budget science fiction horror film directed by Ed Wood, widely regarded as one of the most infamous "so-bad-it's-good" cult movies in cinema history.
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E.
Son of Frankenstein
Son of Frankenstein is a 1939 Universal horror film that continues the Frankenstein saga, following the son of the original doctor as he revives the Monster with disastrous results.
- 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: The Fly Description of subject: "The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Fly