Waiting in Vain
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"Waiting in Vain" is a soulful reggae love song by Bob Marley, best known for its themes of unrequited love and its inclusion on the 1977 album *Exodus*.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waiting in Vain canonical | 12 |
| Waiting in Vain (originally by Bob Marley and the Wailers) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1399582 — 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: Waiting in Vain Context triple: [Bob Marley, notableWork, Waiting in Vain]
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A.
The Waiting
"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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B.
Are We the Waiting
"Are We the Waiting" is a mid-tempo, atmospheric rock song by Green Day from their concept album *American Idiot*, reflecting themes of disillusionment and longing.
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C.
Can’t Wait
"Can’t Wait" is a song by Bob Dylan, featured on his acclaimed 1997 album *Time Out of Mind*, known for its moody, blues-infused sound and themes of longing and inevitability.
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D.
Only One Year
"Only One Year" is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her experiences and disillusionment with life in the Soviet Union.
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E.
Hold On Longer
"Hold On Longer" is a song by John Legend from his 2013 R&B/soul album *Love in the Future*.
- 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: Waiting in Vain Target entity description: "Waiting in Vain" is a soulful reggae love song by Bob Marley, best known for its themes of unrequited love and its inclusion on the 1977 album *Exodus*.
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A.
The Waiting
"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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B.
Are We the Waiting
"Are We the Waiting" is a mid-tempo, atmospheric rock song by Green Day from their concept album *American Idiot*, reflecting themes of disillusionment and longing.
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C.
Can’t Wait
"Can’t Wait" is a song by Bob Dylan, featured on his acclaimed 1997 album *Time Out of Mind*, known for its moody, blues-infused sound and themes of longing and inevitability.
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D.
Only One Year
"Only One Year" is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her experiences and disillusionment with life in the Soviet Union.
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E.
Hold On Longer
"Hold On Longer" is a song by John Legend from his 2013 R&B/soul album *Love in the Future*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Waiting in Vain Description of subject: "Waiting in Vain" is a soulful reggae love song by Bob Marley, best known for its themes of unrequited love and its inclusion on the 1977 album *Exodus*.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Exodus (Bob Marley album)
subject linked to:
album Medusa
subject linked to:
album Medusa
linked to: Waiting in Vain