Numb
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"Numb" is a song by U2, featured on their 1993 album *Zooropa*, known for its monotone vocal delivery and experimental, industrial-influenced sound.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Numb canonical | 8 |
| Numb (The Soul Assassins Mix) | 1 |
| Numb (U2 song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1150545 — 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: Numb Context triple: [Zooropa, hasPart, Numb]
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A.
Fingertips
"Fingertips" is an early 1960s live-recorded hit single by Stevie Wonder that became his first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
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B.
How Low
"How Low" is a popular hip-hop single by American rapper Ludacris, known for its catchy hook and heavy club-oriented production.
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C.
No Sleeep
"No Sleeep" is a sultry, mid-tempo R&B single by Janet Jackson, released in 2015 as the lead track from her album "Unbreakable."
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D.
They Say
"They Say" is a song title that has been used by multiple artists across genres, typically exploring themes of external judgment and personal identity.
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E.
Rise
"Rise" is a song by Herb Alpert whose distinctive groove has been widely sampled in later hip-hop and R&B tracks.
- 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: Numb Target entity description: "Numb" is a song by U2, featured on their 1993 album *Zooropa*, known for its monotone vocal delivery and experimental, industrial-influenced sound.
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A.
Fingertips
"Fingertips" is an early 1960s live-recorded hit single by Stevie Wonder that became his first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
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B.
How Low
"How Low" is a popular hip-hop single by American rapper Ludacris, known for its catchy hook and heavy club-oriented production.
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C.
No Sleeep
"No Sleeep" is a sultry, mid-tempo R&B single by Janet Jackson, released in 2015 as the lead track from her album "Unbreakable."
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D.
They Say
"They Say" is a song title that has been used by multiple artists across genres, typically exploring themes of external judgment and personal identity.
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E.
Rise
"Rise" is a song by Herb Alpert whose distinctive groove has been widely sampled in later hip-hop and R&B tracks.
- 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: Numb Description of subject: "Numb" is a song by U2, featured on their 1993 album *Zooropa*, known for its monotone vocal delivery and experimental, industrial-influenced sound.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.