When We Were Young
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"When We Were Young" is a soulful ballad by English singer-songwriter Adele that reflects nostalgically on youth, love, and the passage of time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| When We Were Young canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1881071 — 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: When We Were Young Context triple: [Adele, notableWork, When We Were Young]
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A.
While We’re Young
"While We’re Young" is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach that explores generational conflict and midlife anxiety through the relationship between an aging documentary filmmaker couple and a younger hipster pair.
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B.
When You Were Young
"When You Were Young" is a 2006 rock single by American band The Killers, known for its anthemic sound and nostalgic, Springsteen-influenced storytelling.
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C.
Younger Than Springtime
"Younger Than Springtime" is a romantic song from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, celebrated for its lyrical expression of youthful love.
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D.
Our Song
"Our Song" is a track by the English progressive rock band Yes, featured on their 1983 album "90125."
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E.
You’re Only Young Once
"You’re Only Young Once" is a 1938 American comedy film in the Andy Hardy series, featuring Mickey Rooney as the wholesome small-town teenager navigating family and romantic misadventures.
- 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: When We Were Young Target entity description: "When We Were Young" is a soulful ballad by English singer-songwriter Adele that reflects nostalgically on youth, love, and the passage of time.
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A.
While We’re Young
"While We’re Young" is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach that explores generational conflict and midlife anxiety through the relationship between an aging documentary filmmaker couple and a younger hipster pair.
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B.
When You Were Young
"When You Were Young" is a 2006 rock single by American band The Killers, known for its anthemic sound and nostalgic, Springsteen-influenced storytelling.
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C.
Younger Than Springtime
"Younger Than Springtime" is a romantic song from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, celebrated for its lyrical expression of youthful love.
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D.
Our Song
"Our Song" is a track by the English progressive rock band Yes, featured on their 1983 album "90125."
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E.
You’re Only Young Once
"You’re Only Young Once" is a 1938 American comedy film in the Andy Hardy series, featuring Mickey Rooney as the wholesome small-town teenager navigating family and romantic misadventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: When We Were Young Description of subject: "When We Were Young" is a soulful ballad by English singer-songwriter Adele that reflects nostalgically on youth, love, and the passage of time.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.