“The Wilderness Downtown”
E397198
“The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive, browser-based music video experience created for Arcade Fire’s song “We Used to Wait,” notable for its innovative use of HTML5 and personalized Google Maps imagery.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Wilderness Downtown | 1 |
| “The Wilderness Downtown” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3905006 — 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.
Target entity: “The Wilderness Downtown” Context triple: [Chris Milk, directedWork, “The Wilderness Downtown”]
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A.
Downtown’s Dead
"Downtown’s Dead" is a country-pop song by American singer-songwriter Sam Hunt, known for its introspective lyrics about loneliness and emotional disconnection amid city nightlife.
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B.
The City Gone Wild
The City Gone Wild is a 1927 American silent crime film, now considered lost, in which actress Lotus Thompson appeared.
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C.
No Church in the Wild
"No Church in the Wild" is a critically acclaimed hip-hop track by Jay-Z and Kanye West featuring Frank Ocean and The-Dream, known for its philosophical lyrics and dark, cinematic production.
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D.
Living in a Ghost Town
"Living in a Ghost Town" is a 2020 blues-rock single by The Rolling Stones, noted for its timely themes of isolation that resonated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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E.
Wandering in the Wilderness
Wandering in the Wilderness refers to the biblical period during which the Israelites spent forty years journeying through the desert after the Exodus from Egypt before entering the Promised Land.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: “The Wilderness Downtown” Target entity description: “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive, browser-based music video experience created for Arcade Fire’s song “We Used to Wait,” notable for its innovative use of HTML5 and personalized Google Maps imagery.
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A.
Downtown’s Dead
"Downtown’s Dead" is a country-pop song by American singer-songwriter Sam Hunt, known for its introspective lyrics about loneliness and emotional disconnection amid city nightlife.
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B.
The City Gone Wild
The City Gone Wild is a 1927 American silent crime film, now considered lost, in which actress Lotus Thompson appeared.
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C.
No Church in the Wild
"No Church in the Wild" is a critically acclaimed hip-hop track by Jay-Z and Kanye West featuring Frank Ocean and The-Dream, known for its philosophical lyrics and dark, cinematic production.
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D.
Living in a Ghost Town
"Living in a Ghost Town" is a 2020 blues-rock single by The Rolling Stones, noted for its timely themes of isolation that resonated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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E.
Wandering in the Wilderness
Wandering in the Wilderness refers to the biblical period during which the Israelites spent forty years journeying through the desert after the Exodus from Egypt before entering the Promised Land.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
HTML5 web application
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browser-based experience ⓘ interactive music video ⓘ |
| associatedWithAlbum | The Suburbs ⓘ |
| basedOnSong | We Used to Wait ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdForArtist | Arcade Fire ⓘ |
| genre |
interactive film
ⓘ
music video ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ ⓘ |
| isPersonalized | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | digital interactive experience ⓘ |
| musicBy | Arcade Fire ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative use of HTML5 in music video format
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integration of personalized Google Maps imagery ⓘ multi-window browser choreography ⓘ |
| personalizationInput | user childhood home address ⓘ |
| platform | web browser ⓘ |
| producer | Google Creative Lab ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| requires |
internet connection
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modern HTML5-capable browser ⓘ |
| theme |
nostalgia for childhood
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suburban life ⓘ waiting in the digital age ⓘ |
| title |
“The Wilderness Downtown”
self-link
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surface form:
The Wilderness Downtown
|
| usesService |
Google Maps
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Google Street View (early contributions) ⓘ
surface form:
Google Street View
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| usesTechnology |
HTML5
ⓘ
JavaScript ⓘ |
| visualFeature |
Street View imagery of user’s neighborhood
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aerial imagery of user’s neighborhood ⓘ flocking birds animation ⓘ handwritten-style text ⓘ multiple browser windows and tabs ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: “The Wilderness Downtown” Description of subject: “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive, browser-based music video experience created for Arcade Fire’s song “We Used to Wait,” notable for its innovative use of HTML5 and personalized Google Maps imagery.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.