Where the Streets Have No Name
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"Where the Streets Have No Name" is a soaring, anthemic rock song by Irish band U2, renowned for its atmospheric guitar intro and prominent place on their landmark 1987 album *The Joshua Tree*.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T183319 — 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: Where the Streets Have No Name Context triple: [U2, notableSong, Where the Streets Have No Name]
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A.
With or Without You
"With or Without You" is one of U2's most famous rock ballads, known for its atmospheric sound, emotional lyrics about turbulent relationships, and enduring popularity since its release in 1987.
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B.
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
"I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For" is a 1987 rock song by Irish band U2, known for its gospel influences and spiritually searching lyrics, and one of the band’s most iconic hits.
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C.
Achtung Baby
Achtung Baby is a critically acclaimed 1991 studio album by Irish rock band U2 that marked a bold sonic reinvention with darker, more experimental and electronic-influenced rock.
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All That You Can’t Leave Behind
All That You Can’t Leave Behind is a critically acclaimed 2000 studio album by Irish rock band U2 that marked a return to their classic sound and produced hits like “Beautiful Day” and “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of.”
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E.
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is U2’s critically acclaimed 1987 rock album known for its atmospheric sound and politically charged anthems like “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
- 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: Where the Streets Have No Name Target entity description: "Where the Streets Have No Name" is a soaring, anthemic rock song by Irish band U2, renowned for its atmospheric guitar intro and prominent place on their landmark 1987 album *The Joshua Tree*.
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A.
With or Without You
"With or Without You" is one of U2's most famous rock ballads, known for its atmospheric sound, emotional lyrics about turbulent relationships, and enduring popularity since its release in 1987.
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B.
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
"I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For" is a 1987 rock song by Irish band U2, known for its gospel influences and spiritually searching lyrics, and one of the band’s most iconic hits.
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C.
Achtung Baby
Achtung Baby is a critically acclaimed 1991 studio album by Irish rock band U2 that marked a bold sonic reinvention with darker, more experimental and electronic-influenced rock.
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D.
All That You Can’t Leave Behind
All That You Can’t Leave Behind is a critically acclaimed 2000 studio album by Irish rock band U2 that marked a return to their classic sound and produced hits like “Beautiful Day” and “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of.”
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E.
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is U2’s critically acclaimed 1987 rock album known for its atmospheric sound and politically charged anthems like “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Where the Streets Have No Name Description of subject: "Where the Streets Have No Name" is a soaring, anthemic rock song by Irish band U2, renowned for its atmospheric guitar intro and prominent place on their landmark 1987 album *The Joshua Tree*.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Where the Streets Have No Name (song, as drummer of U2)
this entity surface form:
Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
this entity surface form:
“Where the Streets Have No Name”
this entity surface form:
U2 – Where the Streets Have No Name