Return to Yesterday
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"Return to Yesterday" is an autobiographical work by Ford Madox Ford in which he reflects on his life, literary career, and the cultural milieu of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Return to Yesterday canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8201887 — 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: Return to Yesterday Context triple: [Ford Madox Ford, notableWork, Return to Yesterday]
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A.
Yesterdays
"Yesterdays" is a song by Guns N' Roses, best known from their 1991 album Use Your Illusion II, featuring reflective lyrics and a melodic hard rock style.
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B.
Yesterdays
"Yesterdays" is a celebrated jazz piano recording by Art Tatum, renowned for its virtuosic improvisation and harmonic sophistication.
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C.
Chasing Yesterday
Chasing Yesterday is the second studio album by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, showcasing Gallagher's songwriting in a more expansive, psychedelic-tinged rock style.
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D.
Between Today and Yesterday
Between Today and Yesterday is a 1974 concept album by English musician Alan Price that reflects on working-class life and social change in Britain.
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E.
It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday
"It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" is a soulful R&B ballad popularized by Boyz II Men, known for its rich harmonies and emotional reflection on loss and farewell.
- 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: Return to Yesterday Target entity description: "Return to Yesterday" is an autobiographical work by Ford Madox Ford in which he reflects on his life, literary career, and the cultural milieu of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Yesterdays
"Yesterdays" is a song by Guns N' Roses, best known from their 1991 album Use Your Illusion II, featuring reflective lyrics and a melodic hard rock style.
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B.
Yesterdays
"Yesterdays" is a celebrated jazz piano recording by Art Tatum, renowned for its virtuosic improvisation and harmonic sophistication.
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C.
Chasing Yesterday
Chasing Yesterday is the second studio album by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, showcasing Gallagher's songwriting in a more expansive, psychedelic-tinged rock style.
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D.
Between Today and Yesterday
Between Today and Yesterday is a 1974 concept album by English musician Alan Price that reflects on working-class life and social change in Britain.
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E.
It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday
"It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" is a soulful R&B ballad popularized by Boyz II Men, known for its rich harmonies and emotional reflection on loss and farewell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | autobiographical work ⓘ |
| author | Ford Madox Ford ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describes |
Ford Madox Ford’s literary relationships
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cultural milieu of the early 20th century ⓘ cultural milieu of the late 19th century ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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memoir ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
artistic life
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cultural change ⓘ literary culture ⓘ memory ⓘ personal reflection ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryGenreContext | English literature ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | modernism ⓘ |
| mode | retrospective narrative ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| subject |
English literary circles
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Ford Madox Ford ⓘ early 20th century cultural life ⓘ late 19th century cultural life ⓘ literary career of Ford Madox Ford ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| workOf | Ford Madox Ford ⓘ |
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: Return to Yesterday Description of subject: "Return to Yesterday" is an autobiographical work by Ford Madox Ford in which he reflects on his life, literary career, and the cultural milieu of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.