Boy/Girl
E550432
"Boy/Girl" is a song by U2, originally released as the B-side to their 1980 single "I Will Follow."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boy/Girl canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5861525 — 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: Boy/Girl Context triple: [I Will Follow, bSide, Boy/Girl]
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A.
Boy
Boy is a mysterious feral child with hidden powers who becomes a central companion and key figure in the animated series "Pacific Rim: The Black."
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B.
Boy
Boy is a minor but symbolically important messenger in Samuel Beckett’s play "Waiting for Godot," whose brief appearances underscore the play’s themes of uncertainty and deferred hope.
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C.
Boy
"Boy" is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2, known for its youthful themes and introducing the band's distinctive post-punk sound.
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D.
Girl
"Girl" is Pharrell Williams' 2014 funk- and R&B-infused studio album known for its upbeat, soulful sound and the hit single "Happy."
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E.
Girl
"Girl" is a 2005 pop-rock song by American musician Beck, known for its catchy melody and surreal, collage-style lyrics.
- 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: Boy/Girl Target entity description: "Boy/Girl" is a song by U2, originally released as the B-side to their 1980 single "I Will Follow."
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A.
Boy
Boy is a mysterious feral child with hidden powers who becomes a central companion and key figure in the animated series "Pacific Rim: The Black."
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B.
Boy
Boy is a minor but symbolically important messenger in Samuel Beckett’s play "Waiting for Godot," whose brief appearances underscore the play’s themes of uncertainty and deferred hope.
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C.
Boy
"Boy" is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2, known for its youthful themes and introducing the band's distinctive post-punk sound.
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D.
Girl
"Girl" is Pharrell Williams' 2014 funk- and R&B-infused studio album known for its upbeat, soulful sound and the hit single "Happy."
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E.
Girl
"Girl" is a 2005 pop-rock song by American musician Beck, known for its catchy melody and surreal, collage-style lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| artist | U2 ⓘ |
| associatedAlbum | Boy ⓘ |
| associatedTour | Boy Tour ⓘ |
| chronologyPosition | early U2 song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| genre |
post-punk
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion | Boy/Girl (live) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStudioVersion | Boy/Girl (studio recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adolescence
ⓘ
relationships ⓘ sexual awakening ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| liveVersionIncludedOn | U2: The Complete U2 (digital box set) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| liveVersionRecordedAt | Marquee Club, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalReleaseFormat | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| partOfArtistDiscography | U2 songs ⓘ |
| partOfSingle | I Will Follow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedDuringTour | Boy Tour ⓘ |
| performer | U2 ⓘ |
| recordedBy | U2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Island Records ⓘ |
| releaseType | B-side ⓘ |
| writer |
Adam Clayton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bono NERFINISHED ⓘ Larry Mullen Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Edge 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: Boy/Girl Description of subject: "Boy/Girl" is a song by U2, originally released as the B-side to their 1980 single "I Will Follow."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.