Hotel California
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"Hotel California" is a classic rock song by the Eagles, renowned for its haunting lyrics, iconic guitar solos, and enduring cultural impact since its 1976 release.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hotel California canonical | 6 |
| Hotel California (album) | 2 |
| "Hotel California" | 1 |
| Hotel California (album, via Don Henley) | 1 |
| Hotel California is one of the best-selling albums worldwide | 1 |
| “Hotel California” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5351989 — 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: Hotel California Context triple: [Eagles, notableWork, Hotel California]
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A.
L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman is a 1971 rock album by The Doors, widely regarded as one of their finest works and noted for its blues-influenced sound and status as the last album recorded with Jim Morrison.
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B.
Down the Highway
"Down the Highway" is a blues-influenced folk song by Bob Dylan, featured on his landmark 1963 album *The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan*.
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C.
Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold is the revolutionary starship from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" powered by the experimental Infinite Improbability Drive.
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D.
Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold is a folk-rock song by Neil Young, best known for its mellow acoustic sound and introspective lyrics, and for becoming his only U.S. number-one single.
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E.
The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s American police procedural television series set in San Francisco, best known for starring Karl Malden and launching Michael Douglas to fame.
- 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: Hotel California Target entity description: "Hotel California" is a classic rock song by the Eagles, renowned for its haunting lyrics, iconic guitar solos, and enduring cultural impact since its 1976 release.
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A.
L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman is a 1971 rock album by The Doors, widely regarded as one of their finest works and noted for its blues-influenced sound and status as the last album recorded with Jim Morrison.
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B.
Down the Highway
"Down the Highway" is a blues-influenced folk song by Bob Dylan, featured on his landmark 1963 album *The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan*.
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C.
Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold is the revolutionary starship from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" powered by the experimental Infinite Improbability Drive.
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D.
Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold is a folk-rock song by Neil Young, best known for its mellow acoustic sound and introspective lyrics, and for becoming his only U.S. number-one single.
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E.
The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s American police procedural television series set in San Francisco, best known for starring Karl Malden and launching Michael Douglas to fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Hotel California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Eagles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Grammy Award for Record of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| bSide | Pretty Maids All in a Row NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanada | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 1 ⓘ |
| composer | Don Felder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstReleasedOn | album Hotel California ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
classic rock
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rock ⓘ |
| guitarist |
Don Felder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcousticVersion | Hotel California (1994 acoustic version) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | widely referenced in popular culture ⓘ |
| hasIconicGuitarSolo | true ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation | often interpreted as metaphor for hedonism and entrapment ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion | Hotel California (Hell Freezes Over live version) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
dual guitar harmony outro
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extended guitar solo ⓘ haunting lyrics ⓘ |
| includedInList | Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Eagles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| key | B minor ⓘ |
| label | Asylum Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Don Henley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 6:30 ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Hotel California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Eagles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Bill Szymczyk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1976 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1976-12-08 ⓘ |
| releaseType | single from album Hotel California ⓘ |
| side | Side B of album Hotel California ⓘ |
| tempo | moderate ⓘ |
| theme |
excess and disillusionment in 1970s American life
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loss of innocence ⓘ |
| title | Hotel California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Don Felder
NERFINISHED
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Don Henley NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenn Frey 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: Hotel California Description of subject: "Hotel California" is a classic rock song by the Eagles, renowned for its haunting lyrics, iconic guitar solos, and enduring cultural impact since its 1976 release.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eagles
subject surface form:
Eagles
this entity surface form:
Hotel California (album)
this entity surface form:
Hotel California is one of the best-selling albums worldwide
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll
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includesWork
→
Hotel California
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this entity surface form:
"Hotel California"
this entity surface form:
Hotel California (album)
this entity surface form:
“Hotel California”
this entity surface form:
Hotel California (album, via Don Henley)