Drowning Man
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"Drowning Man" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1983 album War, known for its atmospheric sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Drowning Man canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5861333 — 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: Drowning Man Context triple: [War, hasTrack, Drowning Man]
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A.
Death by Water
"Death by Water" is a brief, elegiac section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem *The Waste Land* that reflects on mortality and the destructive, purifying power of the sea.
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B.
Dangling Man
Dangling Man is Saul Bellow’s debut novel, a philosophical first-person narrative about an unemployed young man in Chicago awaiting his World War II draft and grappling with alienation and moral uncertainty.
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C.
Drowning by Numbers
Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 darkly comic British film directed by Peter Greenaway, known for its stylized visuals, numerical structure, and macabre tale of three women who each murder their husbands.
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D.
Drowning Girl
Drowning Girl is a famous 1963 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that depicts a crying woman in a comic-book style, exemplifying his use of Ben-Day dots and melodramatic imagery.
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E.
Buried Alive
Buried Alive is a 1990 American horror-thriller film directed by special effects artist and filmmaker Robert Kurtzman, centered on a man seeking revenge after being mistakenly buried alive.
- 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: Drowning Man Target entity description: "Drowning Man" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1983 album War, known for its atmospheric sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
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A.
Death by Water
"Death by Water" is a brief, elegiac section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem *The Waste Land* that reflects on mortality and the destructive, purifying power of the sea.
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B.
Dangling Man
Dangling Man is Saul Bellow’s debut novel, a philosophical first-person narrative about an unemployed young man in Chicago awaiting his World War II draft and grappling with alienation and moral uncertainty.
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C.
Drowning by Numbers
Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 darkly comic British film directed by Peter Greenaway, known for its stylized visuals, numerical structure, and macabre tale of three women who each murder their husbands.
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D.
Drowning Girl
Drowning Girl is a famous 1963 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that depicts a crying woman in a comic-book style, exemplifying his use of Ben-Day dots and melodramatic imagery.
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E.
Buried Alive
Buried Alive is a 1990 American horror-thriller film directed by special effects artist and filmmaker Robert Kurtzman, centered on a man seeking revenge after being mistakenly buried alive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| album | War ⓘ |
| artist | U2 ⓘ |
| associatedBandMember |
Adam Clayton
ⓘ
Bono ⓘ Larry Mullen Jr. ⓘ The Edge ⓘ |
| composer | U2 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| genre |
atmospheric rock
ⓘ
post-punk ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme |
endurance
ⓘ
faith ⓘ loyalty ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| hasMusicalElement |
ambient arrangement
ⓘ
echoing guitar textures ⓘ slow tempo ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | atmospheric sound ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
contrasts with more aggressive tracks on War
ⓘ
moody atmosphere ⓘ spiritually themed lyrics ⓘ |
| includedIn | U2 song catalog ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bono ⓘ |
| partOf | War ⓘ |
| performer | U2 ⓘ |
| producer | Steve Lillywhite ⓘ |
| recordingArtistNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Island Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| trackPositionOnAlbum | non-single album track ⓘ |
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: Drowning Man Description of subject: "Drowning Man" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1983 album War, known for its atmospheric sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.