Like a Surgeon
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"Like a Surgeon" is a 1985 parody song by "Weird Al" Yankovic that humorously spoofs Madonna's hit "Like a Virgin" by reimagining it from the perspective of an inept surgeon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Like a Surgeon canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5783677 — 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: Like a Surgeon Context triple: [Weird Al Yankovic, notableWork, Like a Surgeon]
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A.
The Surgeon
"The Surgeon" is a bestselling medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that introduced the character Jane Rizzoli and helped establish Gerritsen as a leading author of crime fiction.
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B.
The Surgeon at 2 a.m.
"The Surgeon at 2 a.m." is a poem by Sylvia Plath that starkly portrays a surgeon’s detached, clinical perspective during a late-night operation, exploring themes of mortality, alienation, and the body as object.
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C.
Under the Knife
"Under the Knife" is a medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that blends hospital drama with suspenseful crime investigation.
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D.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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E.
Razorblade Suitcase
Razorblade Suitcase is the second studio album by British rock band Bush, known for its dark, grunge-influenced sound and introspective lyrics.
- 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: Like a Surgeon Target entity description: "Like a Surgeon" is a 1985 parody song by "Weird Al" Yankovic that humorously spoofs Madonna's hit "Like a Virgin" by reimagining it from the perspective of an inept surgeon.
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A.
The Surgeon
"The Surgeon" is a bestselling medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that introduced the character Jane Rizzoli and helped establish Gerritsen as a leading author of crime fiction.
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B.
The Surgeon at 2 a.m.
"The Surgeon at 2 a.m." is a poem by Sylvia Plath that starkly portrays a surgeon’s detached, clinical perspective during a late-night operation, exploring themes of mortality, alienation, and the body as object.
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C.
Under the Knife
"Under the Knife" is a medical thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen that blends hospital drama with suspenseful crime investigation.
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D.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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E.
Razorblade Suitcase
Razorblade Suitcase is the second studio album by British rock band Bush, known for its dark, grunge-influenced sound and introspective lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Like a Surgeon Description of subject: "Like a Surgeon" is a 1985 parody song by "Weird Al" Yankovic that humorously spoofs Madonna's hit "Like a Virgin" by reimagining it from the perspective of an inept surgeon.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.