Left to My Own Devices
E189469
"Left to My Own Devices" is a 1988 synth-pop song by the Pet Shop Boys, known for its orchestral production and witty, introspective lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Left to My Own Devices canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1674169 — 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: Left to My Own Devices Context triple: [Pet Shop Boys, notableWork, Left to My Own Devices]
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A.
Our Very Own
"Our Very Own" is a 1950 American drama film starring Ann Blyth and Jane Wyatt that explores the emotional upheaval of a teenager who discovers she is adopted.
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B.
Cocoon
Cocoon is a 1985 science fiction comedy-drama film about a group of elderly people who regain youth and vitality after encountering alien life, directed by Ron Howard.
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C.
The Thing About Love
"The Thing About Love" is a pop ballad by Christina Aguilera from her 2007 album *Back to Basics*, showcasing her soulful vocals and reflective lyrics about the complexities of love.
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D.
The Love Machine
The Love Machine is a 1971 American satirical drama film, based on Jacqueline Susann’s novel, about an ambitious and amoral television executive whose ruthless rise in the industry leads to personal and professional ruin.
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E.
The Island of Love
The Island of Love is a mythical, enchanted paradise in Luís de Camões' epic poem "Os Lusíadas," where the Portuguese sailors are rewarded with love and rest after their voyages.
- 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: Left to My Own Devices Target entity description: "Left to My Own Devices" is a 1988 synth-pop song by the Pet Shop Boys, known for its orchestral production and witty, introspective lyrics.
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A.
Our Very Own
"Our Very Own" is a 1950 American drama film starring Ann Blyth and Jane Wyatt that explores the emotional upheaval of a teenager who discovers she is adopted.
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B.
Cocoon
Cocoon is a 1985 science fiction comedy-drama film about a group of elderly people who regain youth and vitality after encountering alien life, directed by Ron Howard.
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C.
The Thing About Love
"The Thing About Love" is a pop ballad by Christina Aguilera from her 2007 album *Back to Basics*, showcasing her soulful vocals and reflective lyrics about the complexities of love.
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D.
The Love Machine
The Love Machine is a 1971 American satirical drama film, based on Jacqueline Susann’s novel, about an ambitious and amoral television executive whose ruthless rise in the industry leads to personal and professional ruin.
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E.
The Island of Love
The Island of Love is a mythical, enchanted paradise in Luís de Camões' epic poem "Os Lusíadas," where the Portuguese sailors are rewarded with love and rest after their voyages.
- 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: Left to My Own Devices Description of subject: "Left to My Own Devices" is a 1988 synth-pop song by the Pet Shop Boys, known for its orchestral production and witty, introspective lyrics.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Introspective (Pet Shop Boys album)
subject linked to:
Introspective (Pet Shop Boys album)