We Didn't Start the Fire
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"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a rapid-fire, historically themed pop-rock song by Billy Joel that lists major events and figures from the mid-20th century to the late 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| We Didn't Start the Fire canonical | 5 |
| We Didn’t Start the Fire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2885071 — 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: We Didn't Start the Fire Context triple: [Billy Joel, notableWork, We Didn't Start the Fire]
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A.
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
"It’s All Coming Back to Me Now" is a dramatic power ballad, written by Jim Steinman and popularized by Celine Dion, known for its soaring vocals and emotionally intense, cinematic style.
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B.
It's My Life
"It's My Life" is a 2000 rock anthem by Bon Jovi that became one of the band's signature hits, known for its empowering lyrics and widespread commercial success.
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C.
Now More Than Ever
"Now More Than Ever" was the central re-election slogan used by Richard Nixon during his 1972 U.S. presidential campaign.
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D.
I Won't Back Down
"I Won't Back Down" is a 1989 rock song by Tom Petty that became one of his signature anthems of resilience and defiance.
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E.
Desolation Row
"Desolation Row" is a long, surreal, and lyrically dense Bob Dylan song widely regarded as one of his greatest and most influential works.
- 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: We Didn't Start the Fire Target entity description: "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a rapid-fire, historically themed pop-rock song by Billy Joel that lists major events and figures from the mid-20th century to the late 1980s.
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A.
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
"It’s All Coming Back to Me Now" is a dramatic power ballad, written by Jim Steinman and popularized by Celine Dion, known for its soaring vocals and emotionally intense, cinematic style.
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B.
It's My Life
"It's My Life" is a 2000 rock anthem by Bon Jovi that became one of the band's signature hits, known for its empowering lyrics and widespread commercial success.
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C.
Now More Than Ever
"Now More Than Ever" was the central re-election slogan used by Richard Nixon during his 1972 U.S. presidential campaign.
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D.
I Won't Back Down
"I Won't Back Down" is a 1989 rock song by Tom Petty that became one of his signature anthems of resilience and defiance.
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E.
Desolation Row
"Desolation Row" is a long, surreal, and lyrically dense Bob Dylan song widely regarded as one of his greatest and most influential works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: We Didn't Start the Fire Description of subject: "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a rapid-fire, historically themed pop-rock song by Billy Joel that lists major events and figures from the mid-20th century to the late 1980s.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: We Didn't Start the Fire