What You Waiting For?
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"What You Waiting For?" is a pop song best known as Gwen Stefani’s debut solo single, co-written and produced by Linda Perry.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3139783 — 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: What You Waiting For? Context triple: [Linda Perry, notableWork, What You Waiting For?]
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A.
Are You Gonna Wait Forever?
"Are You Gonna Wait Forever?" is a non-album B-side track by U2, released alongside their 2004 single "Vertigo."
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B.
Are We the Waiting
"Are We the Waiting" is a mid-tempo, atmospheric rock song by Green Day from their concept album *American Idiot*, reflecting themes of disillusionment and longing.
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C.
What Do You Want?
"What Do You Want?" is a 1959 British pop single by Adam Faith that became one of his biggest hits and a defining song of his early career.
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D.
Wait For Me
"Wait For Me" is a track from Big Sean's debut studio album "Finally Famous," showcasing his introspective lyricism over melodic production.
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E.
Can’t Wait
"Can’t Wait" is a song by Bob Dylan, featured on his acclaimed 1997 album *Time Out of Mind*, known for its moody, blues-infused sound and themes of longing and inevitability.
- 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: What You Waiting For? Target entity description: "What You Waiting For?" is a pop song best known as Gwen Stefani’s debut solo single, co-written and produced by Linda Perry.
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A.
Are You Gonna Wait Forever?
"Are You Gonna Wait Forever?" is a non-album B-side track by U2, released alongside their 2004 single "Vertigo."
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B.
Are We the Waiting
"Are We the Waiting" is a mid-tempo, atmospheric rock song by Green Day from their concept album *American Idiot*, reflecting themes of disillusionment and longing.
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C.
What Do You Want?
"What Do You Want?" is a 1959 British pop single by Adam Faith that became one of his biggest hits and a defining song of his early career.
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D.
Wait For Me
"Wait For Me" is a track from Big Sean's debut studio album "Finally Famous," showcasing his introspective lyricism over melodic production.
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E.
Can’t Wait
"Can’t Wait" is a song by Bob Dylan, featured on his acclaimed 1997 album *Time Out of Mind*, known for its moody, blues-infused sound and themes of longing and inevitability.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Love. Angel. Music. Baby. ⓘ |
| chronology | Gwen Stefani singles ⓘ |
| composer |
Gwen Stefani
ⓘ
Linda Perry ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 2000s ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
clock-ticking sound effects
ⓘ
spoken intro about writer's block ⓘ |
| followedBy | Rich Girl ⓘ |
| genre |
dance-pop
ⓘ
electropop ⓘ pop ⓘ |
| hasAwardNomination |
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
ⓘ
MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video ⓘ |
| hasImagery | Alice in Wonderland-inspired visuals in music video ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Yes ⓘ |
| hasRemix |
What You Waiting For?
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
What You Waiting For? (Armand Van Helden Remix)
What You Waiting For? self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
What You Waiting For? (Felix da Housecat Remix)
What You Waiting For? self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
What You Waiting For? (Jacques Lu Cont's TWD Mix)
|
| inspiredBy |
Gwen Stefani's transition to solo career
ⓘ
writer's block ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Gwen Stefani's fears about starting a solo career ⓘ |
| musicArtist | Gwen Stefani ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Francis Lawrence ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Gwen Stefani's debut solo single ⓘ |
| partOf | Love. Angel. Music. Baby. ⓘ |
| performer | Gwen Stefani ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | lead single ⓘ |
| producer | Linda Perry ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2004 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Interscope Records
ⓘ
Universal Music Group ⓘ |
| releaseType | debut solo single ⓘ |
| seriesOrdinal | 1 ⓘ |
| theme |
creative anxiety
ⓘ
self-doubt ⓘ time pressure ⓘ |
| usesWordplay | title phrase "What You Waiting For?" repeated as hook ⓘ |
| vocalist | Gwen Stefani ⓘ |
| writer |
Gwen Stefani
ⓘ
Linda Perry ⓘ |
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: What You Waiting For? Description of subject: "What You Waiting For?" is a pop song best known as Gwen Stefani’s debut solo single, co-written and produced by Linda Perry.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
What You Waiting For? (Jacques Lu Cont's TWD Mix)
this entity surface form:
What You Waiting For? (Armand Van Helden Remix)
this entity surface form:
What You Waiting For? (Felix da Housecat Remix)
subject surface form:
What You Waiting For?
this entity surface form:
What You Waiting For? (Jacques Lu Cont remix)
subject surface form:
What You Waiting For?
this entity surface form:
What You Waiting For? (Armand Van Helden remix)