Being Boring

E189468

"Being Boring" is a reflective synth-pop song by Pet Shop Boys, acclaimed for its nostalgic lyrics and elegant, melancholic production.

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Label Occurrences
Being Boring canonical 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf single
song
album Behaviour
artist Pet Shop Boys
chartPerformance UK Singles Chart peak 20
composer Chris Lowe
Neil Tennant
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception acclaimed
genre pop
synth-pop
hasBside We All Feel Better in the Dark
hasCoverArtPhotographer Bruce Weber
hasFormat 12-inch single
7-inch single
CD single
hasLiveVersion Being Boring (live)
hasLyricReference London, England
surface form: London

New York City
surface form: New York

Tokyo
Zelda Fitzgerald
party invitations
hasMusicVideo Being Boring music video
hasMusicVideoDirector Bruce Weber
includedIn Pet Shop Boys live setlists
inspiredBy Zelda Fitzgerald quote "She refused to be bored"
isTrackNumber 1 on Behaviour
language English
length approximately 6:50
lyricist Neil Tennant
notableFor elegant production
melancholic tone
reflective lyrics
partOf Behaviour
performer Chris Lowe
Neil Tennant
Pet Shop Boys
producer Harold Faltermeyer
Pet Shop Boys
recordedIn 1990
recordLabel Parlophone
releaseDate 1990-11-12
tempo mid-tempo
theme AIDS crisis
friendship
growing up
loss
nostalgia

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: Being Boring
Description of subject: "Being Boring" is a reflective synth-pop song by Pet Shop Boys, acclaimed for its nostalgic lyrics and elegant, melancholic production.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pet Shop Boys notableWork Being Boring
Behaviour hasTrack Being Boring
Behaviour notableSingle Being Boring