Play It As It Lays
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"Play It As It Lays" is a solo album by American singer-songwriter Patti Scialfa, blending rock, folk, and Americana influences with introspective, character-driven songwriting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Play It As It Lays canonical | 9 |
| Play It As It Lays (song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921188 — 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: Play It As It Lays Context triple: [Patti Scialfa, notableWork, Play It As It Lays]
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A.
Way Down East
Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
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B.
The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away is a Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O'Connor that explores themes of faith, prophecy, and destiny through the story of a young boy grappling with his religious calling in the rural American South.
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C.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night is a 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamorous yet tragic lives of an American psychiatrist and his wife on the French Riviera.
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D.
The Age of Anxiety
The Age of Anxiety is a long poem by W. H. Auden that explores the spiritual and psychological dislocation of individuals in the modern, postwar world.
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E.
Tender Lover
Tender Lover is a 1989 R&B album by Babyface that helped establish him as a leading singer, songwriter, and producer.
- 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: Play It As It Lays Target entity description: "Play It As It Lays" is a solo album by American singer-songwriter Patti Scialfa, blending rock, folk, and Americana influences with introspective, character-driven songwriting.
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A.
Way Down East
Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
-
B.
The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away is a Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O'Connor that explores themes of faith, prophecy, and destiny through the story of a young boy grappling with his religious calling in the rural American South.
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C.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night is a 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamorous yet tragic lives of an American psychiatrist and his wife on the French Riviera.
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D.
The Age of Anxiety
The Age of Anxiety is a long poem by W. H. Auden that explores the spiritual and psychological dislocation of individuals in the modern, postwar world.
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E.
Tender Lover
Tender Lover is a 1989 R&B album by Babyface that helped establish him as a leading singer, songwriter, and producer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
solo album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Patti Scialfa ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Patti Scialfa ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| genre |
Americana
ⓘ
folk ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasInfluence |
American roots music
ⓘ
singer-songwriter tradition ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
acoustic-based arrangements
ⓘ
roots rock ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adult relationships
ⓘ
emotional resilience ⓘ self-reflection ⓘ |
| hasType |
character-driven songwriting
ⓘ
introspective songwriting ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle |
emotive delivery
ⓘ
husky vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricStyle |
introspective
ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
inner life of characters
ⓘ
personal relationships ⓘ |
| partOf | Patti Scialfa discography ⓘ |
| performer | Patti Scialfa ⓘ |
| producer | Patti Scialfa ⓘ |
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: Play It As It Lays Description of subject: "Play It As It Lays" is a solo album by American singer-songwriter Patti Scialfa, blending rock, folk, and Americana influences with introspective, character-driven songwriting.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.