Ironic
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"Ironic" is a 1996 pop-rock song by Alanis Morissette, known for its wry lyrics about supposedly ironic situations and its prominence as one of her biggest hits from the album *Jagged Little Pill*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ironic canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5626590 — 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: Ironic Context triple: [Alanis Morissette, notableWork, Ironic]
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A.
Sarmast
Sarmast is an honorific title associated with the renowned Sindhi Sufi poet and mystic Sachal Sarmast.
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B.
SARC
SARC is a leading interdisciplinary research center at Queen’s University Belfast focused on innovation in sound, music technology, and sonic arts.
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C.
Snub
Snub is the nickname of Snub Pollard, an Australian-born silent film comedian known for his work in early Hollywood slapstick comedies.
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D.
Warhaftig
Warhaftig is a Jewish family name most notably associated with Zerach Warhaftig, a prominent Israeli politician, lawyer, and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
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E.
Sarmatism
Sarmatism was a distinctive early modern cultural and political ideology of the Polish–Lithuanian nobility that emphasized noble liberty, militarism, Catholic piety, and a mythic descent from ancient Sarmatian tribes.
- 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: Ironic Target entity description: "Ironic" is a 1996 pop-rock song by Alanis Morissette, known for its wry lyrics about supposedly ironic situations and its prominence as one of her biggest hits from the album *Jagged Little Pill*.
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A.
Sarmast
Sarmast is an honorific title associated with the renowned Sindhi Sufi poet and mystic Sachal Sarmast.
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B.
SARC
SARC is a leading interdisciplinary research center at Queen’s University Belfast focused on innovation in sound, music technology, and sonic arts.
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C.
Snub
Snub is the nickname of Snub Pollard, an Australian-born silent film comedian known for his work in early Hollywood slapstick comedies.
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D.
Warhaftig
Warhaftig is a Jewish family name most notably associated with Zerach Warhaftig, a prominent Israeli politician, lawyer, and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
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E.
Sarmatism
Sarmatism was a distinctive early modern cultural and political ideology of the Polish–Lithuanian nobility that emphasized noble liberty, militarism, Catholic piety, and a mythic descent from ancient Sarmatian tribes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Jagged Little Pill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Alanis Morissette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTour | Jagged Little Pill World Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToCatalog | Alanis Morissette discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartSuccess |
Australian Singles Chart number-one
NERFINISHED
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UK Singles Chart top 10 ⓘ US Billboard Hot 100 top 10 ⓘ top 10 in multiple countries ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
frequently referenced in popular culture
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sparked debate about the definition of irony ⓘ used in discussions of lyrical irony and semantics ⓘ |
| era | 1990s pop rock ⓘ |
| format |
CD single
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cassette single ⓘ radio single ⓘ |
| fromAlbumReleaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion | Ironic (MTV Unplugged) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Ironic (music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParodyDebate | Yes ⓘ |
| hasUpdatedVersion | Ironic (2015 updated lyrics version) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Alanis Morissette greatest hits compilations
ⓘ
Jagged Little Pill (1995 studio album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label |
Maverick Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reprise Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 3:48 ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Stephane Sednaoui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Alanis Morissette’s signature songs
ⓘ
commercial success worldwide ⓘ lyrics describing supposedly ironic situations ⓘ |
| partOf | Jagged Little Pill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Alanis Morissette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Glen Ballard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1994–1995 ⓘ |
| releaseType | commercial single ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| theme |
life’s unexpected misfortunes
ⓘ
situational irony ⓘ |
| trackNumberOnAlbum | 6 ⓘ |
| updatedVersionContext | The Late Late Show with James Corden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| updatedVersionPerformer | Alanis Morissette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Alanis Morissette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Alanis Morissette
NERFINISHED
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Glen Ballard 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: Ironic Description of subject: "Ironic" is a 1996 pop-rock song by Alanis Morissette, known for its wry lyrics about supposedly ironic situations and its prominence as one of her biggest hits from the album *Jagged Little Pill*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.