Various Positions
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Various Positions is a 1984 studio album by Leonard Cohen that marked a creative turning point in his career, featuring a more contemporary sound and songs like "Hallelujah."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Various Positions canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4387218 — 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: Various Positions Context triple: [I'm Your Man, precededBy, Various Positions]
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A.
All Directions
All Directions is a 1972 soul and psychedelic-influenced album by The Temptations, best known for featuring their hit single "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."
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B.
Various artists
Various artists is a collective credit used for music releases or compilations that feature tracks by multiple different performers rather than a single primary artist.
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C.
Combine
Combine is Apple’s declarative reactive programming framework for handling asynchronous events and data streams in Swift applications.
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D.
HR/VP
HR/VP is the commonly used abbreviation for the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who leads the EU’s external action and security policy.
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E.
Broad
Broad is a surname most prominently associated with American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli Broad.
- 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: Various Positions Target entity description: Various Positions is a 1984 studio album by Leonard Cohen that marked a creative turning point in his career, featuring a more contemporary sound and songs like "Hallelujah."
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A.
All Directions
All Directions is a 1972 soul and psychedelic-influenced album by The Temptations, best known for featuring their hit single "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."
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B.
Various artists
Various artists is a collective credit used for music releases or compilations that feature tracks by multiple different performers rather than a single primary artist.
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C.
Combine
Combine is Apple’s declarative reactive programming framework for handling asynchronous events and data streams in Swift applications.
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D.
HR/VP
HR/VP is the commonly used abbreviation for the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who leads the EU’s external action and security policy.
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E.
Broad
Broad is a surname most prominently associated with American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli Broad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Leonard Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributor | Jennifer Warnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| creativeDirection | more contemporary sound ⓘ |
| features |
female backing vocals
ⓘ
synthesizer arrangements ⓘ |
| followedBy | I’m Your Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Recent Songs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary folk
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | subsequent Leonard Cohen albums ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Coming Back to You
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dance Me to the End of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Hallelujah ⓘ Heart with No Companion NERFINISHED ⓘ Hunter’s Lullaby NERFINISHED ⓘ If It Be Your Will NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Comes On NERFINISHED ⓘ The Captain NERFINISHED ⓘ The Law ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
melancholic tone
ⓘ
minimalist arrangements ⓘ |
| hasType | full-length album ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
faith
ⓘ
love ⓘ relationships ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| medium |
audio cassette
ⓘ
compact disc ⓘ vinyl record ⓘ |
| notableFor | original studio recording of Hallelujah ⓘ |
| notableWork | Hallelujah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Leonard Cohen discography ⓘ |
| performer | Leonard Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | John Lissauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1984 ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| recordedIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
CBS Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columbia Records ⓘ |
| significance | marked a creative turning point in Leonard Cohen’s career ⓘ |
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: Various Positions Description of subject: Various Positions is a 1984 studio album by Leonard Cohen that marked a creative turning point in his career, featuring a more contemporary sound and songs like "Hallelujah."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
I'm Your Man