Bent
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"Bent" is a hit rock ballad by Matchbox Twenty that became one of the band's most commercially successful and recognizable songs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bent canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5045479 — 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: Bent Context triple: [Matchbox Twenty, notableWork, Bent]
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A.
Bent
Bent is an English electronic music duo known for their downtempo, chillout, and sample-heavy productions that gained prominence in the early 2000s.
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B.
The Van
"The Van" is a 1996 Irish comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, about two friends who start a fish-and-chip van business in Dublin after one of them loses his job.
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C.
Die Bertinis
Die Bertinis is a German television miniseries based on Ralph Giordano’s semi-autobiographical novel about a Jewish-Italian family in Hamburg during the Nazi era.
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D.
The Girl
The Girl is a biographical drama film in which Sienna Miller portrays actress Tippi Hedren and explores Alfred Hitchcock’s obsessive relationship with his leading lady during the making of The Birds and Marnie.
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E.
The Double
The Double is a psychoanalytic study by Otto Rank that explores the concept of the doppelgänger as a manifestation of the human psyche, particularly in relation to identity, narcissism, and the fear of death.
- 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: Bent Target entity description: "Bent" is a hit rock ballad by Matchbox Twenty that became one of the band's most commercially successful and recognizable songs.
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A.
Bent
Bent is an English electronic music duo known for their downtempo, chillout, and sample-heavy productions that gained prominence in the early 2000s.
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B.
The Van
"The Van" is a 1996 Irish comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, about two friends who start a fish-and-chip van business in Dublin after one of them loses his job.
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C.
Die Bertinis
Die Bertinis is a German television miniseries based on Ralph Giordano’s semi-autobiographical novel about a Jewish-Italian family in Hamburg during the Nazi era.
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D.
The Girl
The Girl is a biographical drama film in which Sienna Miller portrays actress Tippi Hedren and explores Alfred Hitchcock’s obsessive relationship with his leading lady during the making of The Birds and Marnie.
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E.
The Double
The Double is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores themes of identity, madness, and the uncanny through the story of a government clerk who is tormented by his own doppelgänger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Mad Season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Matchbox Twenty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
1 on Billboard Adult Top 40
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1 on Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ Top 10 on Billboard Mainstream Top 40 ⓘ Top 20 in Australia (ARIA Singles Chart) ⓘ Top 20 in Canada (RPM Top Singles) ⓘ Top 40 in the United Kingdom (UK Singles Chart) ⓘ |
| composer | Rob Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 2000s ⓘ |
| followsSingle | Back 2 Good NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
CD single
ⓘ
cassette single ⓘ digital download ⓘ |
| genre | rock ballad ⓘ |
| hasBside |
3 A.M. (live)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Push (live) NERFINISHED ⓘ You Won’t Be Mine (live) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 4:16 ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional vulnerability
ⓘ
support in relationships ⓘ |
| hasWriter | Rob Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | Matchbox Twenty concert setlists ⓘ |
| isHitSingle | true ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Matchbox Twenty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Rob Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Matchbox Twenty’s first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single ⓘ |
| partOf | Mad Season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Matchbox Twenty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedesSingle | If You’re Gone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Matt Serletic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
ⓘ
Lava Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2000-04-07 ⓘ |
| style | post-grunge-influenced pop rock ⓘ |
| trackNumber | 1 on Mad Season ⓘ |
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: Bent Description of subject: "Bent" is a hit rock ballad by Matchbox Twenty that became one of the band's most commercially successful and recognizable songs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.