Waiting on a Friend
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"Waiting on a Friend" is a mellow, reggae-tinged rock ballad by The Rolling Stones, known for its reflective lyrics on friendship and its memorable saxophone solo by Sonny Rollins.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waiting on a Friend canonical | 6 |
| Waiting on a Friend (live) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2641702 — 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 on a Friend Context triple: [The Rolling Stones, notableWork, Waiting on a Friend]
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A.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
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B.
Waiting in Vain
"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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C.
Love Won’t Wait
"Love Won’t Wait" is a song featured on the Black Eyed Peas' debut studio album "Behind the Front."
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 on a Friend Target entity description: "Waiting on a Friend" is a mellow, reggae-tinged rock ballad by The Rolling Stones, known for its reflective lyrics on friendship and its memorable saxophone solo by Sonny Rollins.
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A.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
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B.
Waiting in Vain
"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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C.
Love Won’t Wait
"Love Won’t Wait" is a song featured on the Black Eyed Peas' debut studio album "Behind the Front."
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 on a Friend Description of subject: "Waiting on a Friend" is a mellow, reggae-tinged rock ballad by The Rolling Stones, known for its reflective lyrics on friendship and its memorable saxophone solo by Sonny Rollins.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Waiting on a Friend