Staring at the Sun
E555981
"Staring at the Sun" is a pop song best known as a single by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1997 album "Pop."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Staring at the Sun canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5929914 — 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: Staring at the Sun Context triple: [Pop, hasSingle, Staring at the Sun]
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A.
Eclipse of the Sun
"Eclipse of the Sun" is a 1926 political painting by German artist George Grosz that satirically depicts the corruption and brutality of Weimar-era politics and capitalism.
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B.
A Sun Came
A Sun Came is the eclectic, genre-blending debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, showcasing his experimental folk and lo-fi sound.
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C.
Brighter Than the Sun
"Brighter Than the Sun" is a catchy pop song by American singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat, known for its upbeat, feel-good sound and sunny, romantic lyrics.
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D.
Behind the Sun
"Behind the Sun" is a Brazilian drama film directed by Walter Salles that explores family honor, violence, and coming-of-age in the rural Northeast at the turn of the 20th century.
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E.
Into the Sun
"Into the Sun" is a song by American indie folk band Lord Huron, known for their atmospheric, cinematic sound and storytelling 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: Staring at the Sun Target entity description: "Staring at the Sun" is a pop song best known as a single by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1997 album "Pop."
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A.
Eclipse of the Sun
"Eclipse of the Sun" is a 1926 political painting by German artist George Grosz that satirically depicts the corruption and brutality of Weimar-era politics and capitalism.
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B.
A Sun Came
A Sun Came is the eclectic, genre-blending debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, showcasing his experimental folk and lo-fi sound.
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C.
Brighter Than the Sun
"Brighter Than the Sun" is a catchy pop song by American singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat, known for its upbeat, feel-good sound and sunny, romantic lyrics.
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D.
Behind the Sun
"Behind the Sun" is a Brazilian drama film directed by Walter Salles that explores family honor, violence, and coming-of-age in the rural Northeast at the turn of the 20th century.
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E.
Into the Sun
"Into the Sun" is a song by American indie folk band Lord Huron, known for their atmospheric, cinematic sound and storytelling lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Pop ⓘ |
| artist | U2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 3 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSModernRockTracks | 1 ⓘ |
| composer |
Bono
ⓘ
The Edge ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ |
| hasBside |
North and South of the River
ⓘ
Your Blue Room ⓘ |
| hasISRC | GBAAN9700009 ⓘ |
| hasLiveAcousticVersion | Staring at the Sun (acoustic live version) ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideoDirector | Jake Scott ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
disillusionment
ⓘ
escapism ⓘ political commentary ⓘ |
| includedInTour |
Elevation Tour
ⓘ
PopMart Tour ⓘ Vertigo Tour ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 4:37 ⓘ |
| nextSingle | Last Night on Earth ⓘ |
| partOf | Pop ⓘ |
| performer | U2 ⓘ |
| previousSingle | Discothèque ⓘ |
| producer |
Flood
ⓘ
Howie B ⓘ Steve Osborne ⓘ U2 ⓘ |
| publisher | Universal Music Publishing Group ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Island Records
ⓘ
PolyGram ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1997-03-15 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| tempo | mid-tempo ⓘ |
| trackNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| writer |
Bono
ⓘ
The Edge ⓘ |
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: Staring at the Sun Description of subject: "Staring at the Sun" is a pop song best known as a single by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1997 album "Pop."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.