Wasted Years
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"Wasted Years" is a 1986 heavy metal single by Iron Maiden, written by guitarist Adrian Smith and known for its melodic guitar work and reflective lyrics about time and regret.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wasted Years canonical | 4 |
| Wasted Years (live) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5875645 — 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: Wasted Years Context triple: [Iron Maiden, notableSong, Wasted Years]
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A.
Long and Wasted Years
"Long and Wasted Years" is a reflective, narrative-driven song by Bob Dylan from his 2012 album "Tempest," known for its themes of memory, regret, and lost love.
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B.
Wasted (album)
Wasted is a studio album by American rock band Promise of the Real, showcasing their blend of rock, folk, and jam-band influences.
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C.
The Sad Years
"The Sad Years" is a collection of melancholic poetry by Irish writer Dora Sigerson Shorter, reflecting themes of loss, sorrow, and emotional struggle.
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D.
Two Red Years
Two Red Years refers to the period of intense social conflict, mass strikes, and revolutionary agitation in Italy from 1919 to 1920, known in Italian as the Biennio Rosso.
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E.
Waste of Time
"Waste of Time" is a track featured on the hip-hop album *Ego Trippin'* by Snoop Dogg.
- 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: Wasted Years Target entity description: "Wasted Years" is a 1986 heavy metal single by Iron Maiden, written by guitarist Adrian Smith and known for its melodic guitar work and reflective lyrics about time and regret.
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A.
Long and Wasted Years
"Long and Wasted Years" is a reflective, narrative-driven song by Bob Dylan from his 2012 album "Tempest," known for its themes of memory, regret, and lost love.
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B.
Wasted (album)
Wasted is a studio album by American rock band Promise of the Real, showcasing their blend of rock, folk, and jam-band influences.
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C.
The Sad Years
"The Sad Years" is a collection of melancholic poetry by Irish writer Dora Sigerson Shorter, reflecting themes of loss, sorrow, and emotional struggle.
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D.
Two Red Years
Two Red Years refers to the period of intense social conflict, mass strikes, and revolutionary agitation in Italy from 1919 to 1920, known in Italian as the Biennio Rosso.
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E.
Waste of Time
"Waste of Time" is a track featured on the hip-hop album *Ego Trippin'* by Snoop Dogg.
- 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: Wasted Years Description of subject: "Wasted Years" is a 1986 heavy metal single by Iron Maiden, written by guitarist Adrian Smith and known for its melodic guitar work and reflective lyrics about time and regret.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wasted Years