Popular Problems
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Popular Problems is a studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, known for its sparse arrangements and meditative, poetic reflections on aging, love, and mortality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Popular Problems canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4867904 — 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: Popular Problems Context triple: [You Want It Darker, follows, Popular Problems]
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A.
Hot Topics
Hot Topics is the opening discussion segment on the daytime talk show "The View," where the co-hosts debate and comment on current events and trending issues.
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Populares
The Populares were a political faction in the late Roman Republic that sought popular support through reforms favoring the common people and challenging the power of the senatorial elite.
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Popular
"Popular" is a comedic, character-driven show tune from the Broadway musical Wicked, written by Stephen Schwartz and performed by the character Glinda as she attempts to give Elphaba a makeover and social advice.
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D.
TRND
TRND is a National Institutes of Health program that accelerates the development of treatments for rare and neglected diseases by bridging the gap between basic research and clinical application.
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E.
Critique of the New Problem
Critique of the New Problem is a section of Alan Turing’s seminal 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in which he analyzes and responds to objections against his proposed imitation game as a test for machine intelligence.
- 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: Popular Problems Target entity description: Popular Problems is a studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, known for its sparse arrangements and meditative, poetic reflections on aging, love, and mortality.
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A.
Hot Topics
Hot Topics is the opening discussion segment on the daytime talk show "The View," where the co-hosts debate and comment on current events and trending issues.
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B.
Populares
The Populares were a political faction in the late Roman Republic that sought popular support through reforms favoring the common people and challenging the power of the senatorial elite.
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C.
Popular
"Popular" is a comedic, character-driven show tune from the Broadway musical Wicked, written by Stephen Schwartz and performed by the character Glinda as she attempts to give Elphaba a makeover and social advice.
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D.
TRND
TRND is a National Institutes of Health program that accelerates the development of treatments for rare and neglected diseases by bridging the gap between basic research and clinical application.
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E.
Critique of the New Problem
Critique of the New Problem is a section of Alan Turing’s seminal 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in which he analyzes and responds to objections against his proposed imitation game as a test for machine intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Leonard Cohen album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| award |
Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year win
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Juno Award for Album of the Year nomination ⓘ
linked to:
Juno Award
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| chartPerformance |
reached number one on the Canadian Albums Chart
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reached top 5 on several European album charts ⓘ |
| contributor |
Alexandru Bublitchi
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Charley Drayton ⓘ Dana Glover ⓘ Sharon Robinson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| criticalReception | received widespread critical acclaim ⓘ |
| followedBy | You Want It Darker ⓘ |
| format |
CD
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digital download ⓘ vinyl LP ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary folk
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folk rock ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
A Street
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Almost Like the Blues ⓘ Born in Chains ⓘ Did I Ever Love You ⓘ My Oh My ⓘ Nevermind ⓘ Samson in New Orleans ⓘ Slow ⓘ You Got Me Singing ⓘ |
| labelImprint | Columbia ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 36:10 ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Almost Like the Blues
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Nevermind ⓘ You Got Me Singing ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 9 ⓘ |
| performer | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| precededBy | Old Ideas ⓘ |
| producer |
Leonard Cohen
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Patrick Leonard ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Columbia Records
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Sony Music ⓘ
linked to:
Sony Music Entertainment
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| releaseDate | 2014-09-19 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| style |
meditative lyrics
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poetic reflections ⓘ sparse arrangements ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
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love ⓘ mortality ⓘ spirituality ⓘ war and conflict ⓘ |
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: Popular Problems Description of subject: Popular Problems is a studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, known for its sparse arrangements and meditative, poetic reflections on aging, love, and mortality.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.