“Dies Irae”
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“Dies Irae” is a track by the hip hop group The Roots from their concept album …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin, contributing to the record’s dark, satirical exploration of violence and modern society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dies irae | 1 |
| “Dies Irae” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3120611 — 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: “Dies Irae” Context triple: […And Then You Shoot Your Cousin, hasPart, “Dies Irae”]
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A.
Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei is a traditional Christian liturgical chant and devotional motif that invokes Jesus Christ as the sacrificial Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
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B.
Requiem
Requiem is a deeply expressive and harmonically rich choral work by English composer Herbert Howells, often regarded as one of his finest sacred compositions.
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C.
Requiem
Requiem is a large-scale choral-orchestral work by American composer John Harbison that sets traditional Latin Requiem Mass texts in a contemporary classical style.
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D.
Requiem
"Requiem" is an emotionally charged song from the Broadway musical *Dear Evan Hansen* that explores a family's struggle to grieve and remember a troubled loved one.
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E.
Sanctus
Sanctus is a central Christian liturgical hymn of praise, traditionally sung during the Eucharistic prayer in many church rites.
- 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: “Dies Irae” Target entity description: “Dies Irae” is a track by the hip hop group The Roots from their concept album …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin, contributing to the record’s dark, satirical exploration of violence and modern society.
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A.
Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei is a traditional Christian liturgical chant and devotional motif that invokes Jesus Christ as the sacrificial Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
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B.
Requiem
Requiem is a deeply expressive and harmonically rich choral work by English composer Herbert Howells, often regarded as one of his finest sacred compositions.
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C.
Requiem
Requiem is a large-scale choral-orchestral work by American composer John Harbison that sets traditional Latin Requiem Mass texts in a contemporary classical style.
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D.
Requiem
"Requiem" is an emotionally charged song from the Broadway musical *Dear Evan Hansen* that explores a family's struggle to grieve and remember a troubled loved one.
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E.
Sanctus
Sanctus is a central Christian liturgical hymn of praise, traditionally sung during the Eucharistic prayer in many church rites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| album | …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin ⓘ |
| artist | The Roots ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Roots ⓘ |
| contributor |
Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter
ⓘ
surface form:
Black Thought
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson ⓘ
surface form:
Questlove
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
conscious hip hop
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ |
| hasMood | dark ⓘ |
| hasStyle | experimental hip hop ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
modern society
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satire ⓘ social commentary ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Christian liturgical motif "Dies irae" ⓘ |
| isPartOfConceptAlbum | …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
compact disc
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digital audio ⓘ |
| musicalArtistOrigin | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | contributes to concept album storyline ⓘ |
| partOf | …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin ⓘ |
| performer | The Roots ⓘ |
| producer | The Roots ⓘ |
| recordedBy | The Roots ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Def Jam Recordings
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Okayplayer Records ⓘ |
| workTitleLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
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: “Dies Irae” Description of subject: “Dies Irae” is a track by the hip hop group The Roots from their concept album …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin, contributing to the record’s dark, satirical exploration of violence and modern society.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.