Playing for Time
E209059
"Playing for Time" is a reflective, piano-driven song by Peter Gabriel that explores themes of aging, memory, and the passage of time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Playing for Time canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872553 — 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: Playing for Time Context triple: [Peter Gabriel, notableSong, Playing for Time]
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A.
Über das Gedächtnis
Über das Gedächtnis is Hermann Ebbinghaus’s pioneering 1885 work that introduced experimental methods to the study of human memory, including the famous forgetting curve and learning curve.
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B.
The General in His Labyrinth
The General in His Labyrinth is a historical novel by Gabriel García Márquez that fictionalizes the final journey and inner turmoil of Latin American liberator Simón Bolívar.
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C.
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a landmark modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that presents a disembodied narrator’s fragmented, stream-of-consciousness monologue exploring identity, language, and existence.
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D.
The Osterman Weekend
The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 espionage thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, based on Robert Ludlum’s novel about a TV host entangled in a deadly CIA conspiracy.
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E.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
- 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: Playing for Time Target entity description: "Playing for Time" is a reflective, piano-driven song by Peter Gabriel that explores themes of aging, memory, and the passage of time.
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A.
Über das Gedächtnis
Über das Gedächtnis is Hermann Ebbinghaus’s pioneering 1885 work that introduced experimental methods to the study of human memory, including the famous forgetting curve and learning curve.
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B.
The General in His Labyrinth
The General in His Labyrinth is a historical novel by Gabriel García Márquez that fictionalizes the final journey and inner turmoil of Latin American liberator Simón Bolívar.
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C.
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a landmark modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that presents a disembodied narrator’s fragmented, stream-of-consciousness monologue exploring identity, language, and existence.
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D.
The Osterman Weekend
The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 espionage thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, based on Robert Ludlum’s novel about a TV host entangled in a deadly CIA conspiracy.
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E.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Peter Gabriel ⓘ |
| belongsToCentury | 21st century ⓘ |
| composer | Peter Gabriel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
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piano rock ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasArtist | Peter Gabriel ⓘ |
| hasArtistNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasArtistRole |
co-producer
ⓘ
lead vocalist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation | piano ⓘ |
| hasIntendedEffect | emotional reflection ⓘ |
| hasListeningContext | contemplative listening ⓘ |
| hasLyrics | English-language lyrics ⓘ |
| hasMood |
contemplative
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ reflective ⓘ |
| hasMusicalElement |
dynamic build-up
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melodic piano lines ⓘ orchestral arrangement ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryInstrument | piano ⓘ |
| hasProduction | studio recording ⓘ |
| hasReleaseFormat |
album track
ⓘ
digital single ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
human lifespan
ⓘ
memories ⓘ personal history ⓘ time ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | solo male vocal ⓘ |
| hasWriter | Peter Gabriel ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Peter Gabriel discography ⓘ |
| isPianoDriven | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Peter Gabriel ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | i/o ⓘ |
| performer | Peter Gabriel ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Real World Records ⓘ |
| releaseType | single ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
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memory ⓘ mortality ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ passage of time ⓘ reflection ⓘ |
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: Playing for Time Description of subject: "Playing for Time" is a reflective, piano-driven song by Peter Gabriel that explores themes of aging, memory, and the passage of time.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
i/o