About Today
E198317
"About Today" is a melancholic, slow-building song by indie rock band The National, known for its emotional lyrics and atmospheric arrangement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| About Today canonical | 2 |
| About Today (live) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1786150 — 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: About Today Context triple: [The National, notableSong, About Today]
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A.
Today
Today is BBC Radio 4’s leading early-morning news and current affairs programme, featuring in-depth interviews, reports, and analysis of national and international events.
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B.
Today
Today is a long-running American morning news and talk show on NBC featuring news coverage, interviews, and lifestyle segments.
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C.
Today
"Today" is a popular 1960s folk song by The New Christy Minstrels, known for its gentle melody and romantic lyrics.
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D.
AboutUs.org
AboutUs.org is a collaboratively edited online directory and wiki-style resource that documents websites, organizations, and businesses across the internet.
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E.
One Today
"One Today" is a poem by Richard Blanco that reflects on American unity and diversity, written for and delivered at Barack Obama’s second presidential inauguration in 2013.
- 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: About Today Target entity description: "About Today" is a melancholic, slow-building song by indie rock band The National, known for its emotional lyrics and atmospheric arrangement.
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A.
Today
Today is BBC Radio 4’s leading early-morning news and current affairs programme, featuring in-depth interviews, reports, and analysis of national and international events.
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B.
Today
Today is a long-running American morning news and talk show on NBC featuring news coverage, interviews, and lifestyle segments.
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C.
Today
"Today" is a popular 1960s folk song by The New Christy Minstrels, known for its gentle melody and romantic lyrics.
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D.
AboutUs.org
AboutUs.org is a collaboratively edited online directory and wiki-style resource that documents websites, organizations, and businesses across the internet.
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E.
One Today
"One Today" is a poem by Richard Blanco that reflects on American unity and diversity, written for and delivered at Barack Obama’s second presidential inauguration in 2013.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | The National ⓘ |
| composer |
Aaron Dessner
ⓘ
Bryan Devendorf ⓘ Bryce Dessner ⓘ Matt Berninger ⓘ Scott Devendorf ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ strings ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion |
About Today (live)
ⓘ
linked to:
About Today
|
| hasMood | melancholic ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | atmospheric arrangement ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformance | live performances by The National ⓘ |
| hasTempo | slow-building ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional distance
ⓘ
introspection ⓘ regret ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Matt Berninger ⓘ |
| notableFor |
atmospheric sound
ⓘ
emotional lyrics ⓘ gradual dynamic build ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cherry Tree
ⓘ
The National: Cherry Tree EP ⓘ |
| performer | The National ⓘ |
| producer | The National ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | The National ⓘ |
| releaseType | EP track ⓘ |
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: About Today Description of subject: "About Today" is a melancholic, slow-building song by indie rock band The National, known for its emotional lyrics and atmospheric arrangement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.