Hourglass
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Hourglass is a Grammy-winning 1997 studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor that blends introspective lyrics with polished folk-rock and soft rock arrangements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hourglass canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2342157 — 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: Hourglass Context triple: [James Taylor, album, Hourglass]
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A.
The Sundial
"The Sundial" is a darkly comic Gothic novel by Shirley Jackson that explores themes of family dysfunction, apocalyptic prophecy, and claustrophobic isolation within a grand, eerie mansion.
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B.
Tower of Glass
Tower of Glass is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of artificial intelligence, class hierarchy, and the ethics of creating sentient beings.
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C.
The Clock
The Clock is a 1945 romantic drama film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, directed by Vincente Minnelli, about a brief but intense wartime romance in New York City.
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D.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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E.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
- 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: Hourglass Target entity description: Hourglass is a Grammy-winning 1997 studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor that blends introspective lyrics with polished folk-rock and soft rock arrangements.
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A.
The Sundial
"The Sundial" is a darkly comic Gothic novel by Shirley Jackson that explores themes of family dysfunction, apocalyptic prophecy, and claustrophobic isolation within a grand, eerie mansion.
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B.
Tower of Glass
Tower of Glass is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of artificial intelligence, class hierarchy, and the ethics of creating sentient beings.
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C.
The Clock
The Clock is a 1945 romantic drama film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, directed by Vincente Minnelli, about a brief but intense wartime romance in New York City.
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D.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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E.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Hourglass Description of subject: Hourglass is a Grammy-winning 1997 studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor that blends introspective lyrics with polished folk-rock and soft rock arrangements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.