Mama
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"Mama" is a dark, emotionally intense 1983 song by the English rock band Genesis, known for its haunting atmosphere and Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5045220 — 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: Mama Context triple: [Genesis, notableSong, Mama]
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A.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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B.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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C.
Mutter
Mutter is the window manager and Wayland compositor used by the GNOME desktop environment to handle graphical display and window management.
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D.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
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E.
Tell Mama
"Tell Mama" is a 1967 soul and R&B song by Etta James, celebrated for its powerful vocals and status as one of her signature hits.
- 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: Mama Target entity description: "Mama" is a dark, emotionally intense 1983 song by the English rock band Genesis, known for its haunting atmosphere and Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery.
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A.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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B.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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C.
Mutter
Mutter is the window manager and Wayland compositor used by the GNOME desktop environment to handle graphical display and window management.
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D.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
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E.
Tell Mama
"Tell Mama" is a 1967 soul and R&B song by Etta James, celebrated for its powerful vocals and status as one of her signature hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Genesis (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Genesis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 4 ⓘ |
| composer |
Mike Rutherford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phil Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drum machine ⓘ drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| followedBy | That's All NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Mama (Genesis music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeTheme |
emotional turmoil
ⓘ
obsessive love ⓘ |
| includedIn | Genesis live setlists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 7:27 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery
ⓘ
dark lyrical themes ⓘ haunting atmosphere ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Genesis (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Genesis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerMember |
Mike Rutherford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phil Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Paperlate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Genesis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hugh Padgham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1983 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
ⓘ
Charisma Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgin Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1983-08-22 ⓘ |
| singleBside | It's Gonna Get Better NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Phil Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Mike Rutherford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phil Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mama Description of subject: "Mama" is a dark, emotionally intense 1983 song by the English rock band Genesis, known for its haunting atmosphere and Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.