The Coast
E862917
"The Coast" is a song by Paul Simon from his 1990 album *The Rhythm of the Saints*, known for its rich percussion and world music influences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Coast canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10437493 — 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: The Coast Context triple: [The Rhythm of the Saints, hasPart, The Coast]
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A.
The Bight
The Bight is a coastal community on the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands, known for its proximity to Grace Bay and popular resort and beach areas.
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B.
By the Sea
"By the Sea" is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah that explores themes of exile, identity, and displacement through the intertwined stories of refugees from Zanzibar.
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C.
By the Sea
"By the Sea" is a darkly comic, fantasy-tinged song from Stephen Sondheim’s musical *Sweeney Todd*, in which Mrs. Lovett imagines an idyllic seaside life with the murderous barber.
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D.
By the Sea
By the Sea is a 2015 romantic drama film starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as a troubled couple on a seaside vacation in 1970s France.
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E.
The Harbor
The Harbor is a 1915 novel by Ernest Poole that portrays the transformation of an American waterfront city amid industrialization and labor unrest, often cited as an early example of socially conscious American literature.
- 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: The Coast Target entity description: "The Coast" is a song by Paul Simon from his 1990 album *The Rhythm of the Saints*, known for its rich percussion and world music influences.
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A.
The Bight
The Bight is a coastal community on the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands, known for its proximity to Grace Bay and popular resort and beach areas.
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B.
By the Sea
By the Sea is a 2015 romantic drama film starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as a troubled couple on a seaside vacation in 1970s France.
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C.
By the Sea
"By the Sea" is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah that explores themes of exile, identity, and displacement through the intertwined stories of refugees from Zanzibar.
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D.
By the Sea
"By the Sea" is a darkly comic, fantasy-tinged song from Stephen Sondheim’s musical *Sweeney Todd*, in which Mrs. Lovett imagines an idyllic seaside life with the murderous barber.
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E.
The Harbor
The Harbor is a 1915 novel by Ernest Poole that portrays the transformation of an American waterfront city amid industrialization and labor unrest, often cited as an early example of socially conscious American literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| album | The Rhythm of the Saints ⓘ |
| artist | Paul Simon ⓘ |
| associatedPerformer | touring band of Paul Simon ⓘ |
| associatedWork | The Rhythm of the Saints tour ⓘ |
| composer | Paul Simon ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creditedTo | Paul Simon ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
world music ⓘ worldbeat ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
cultural contrast
ⓘ
faith and doubt ⓘ social observation ⓘ spiritual reflection ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
African rhythmic influences
ⓘ
Latin American rhythmic influences ⓘ bass guitar ⓘ drum kit ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ hand percussion ⓘ layered vocal arrangements ⓘ polyrhythmic structure ⓘ prominent percussion ensemble ⓘ rich percussion ⓘ world music influences ⓘ |
| hasNotableAspect |
complex rhythmic layering
ⓘ
critical recognition for innovative production ⓘ integration of world music styles into pop songwriting ⓘ use of global percussion ensembles ⓘ |
| hasProductionStyle |
rhythm-driven arrangement
ⓘ
worldbeat fusion production ⓘ |
| hasType | album track ⓘ |
| includedIn | Paul Simon discography ⓘ |
| isInCatalogOf | Paul Simon songs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Paul Simon ⓘ |
| medium | studio recording ⓘ |
| partOf | The Rhythm of the Saints ⓘ |
| performer | Paul Simon ⓘ |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Paul Simon ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| workOrigin |
album The Rhythm of the Saints
ⓘ
linked to:
The Rhythm of the Saints
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: The Coast Description of subject: "The Coast" is a song by Paul Simon from his 1990 album *The Rhythm of the Saints*, known for its rich percussion and world music influences.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.