Bullet with Butterfly Wings
E600410
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a Grammy-winning 1995 alternative rock song by The Smashing Pumpkins, known for its heavy guitars, dark lyrics, and the iconic refrain "the world is a vampire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bullet with Butterfly Wings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6500247 — 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: Bullet with Butterfly Wings Context triple: [The Smashing Pumpkins, notableSong, Bullet with Butterfly Wings]
-
A.
Bombs & Butterflies
Bombs & Butterflies is a studio album by the American jam band Widespread Panic, showcasing their Southern rock and improvisational style.
-
B.
Spread Your Bloody Wings
"Spread Your Bloody Wings" is a dark, minimalist folk song by Smog (Bill Callahan) from his 1997 album *The Doctor Came at Dawn*.
-
C.
The Man with Wings
The Man with Wings is a superhero alias of Sam Wilson, better known as Marvel's high-flying Avenger Falcon who uses advanced winged technology to fight crime.
-
D.
The Regard of Flight
The Regard of Flight is a critically acclaimed one-man stage show by Bill Irwin that blends physical comedy, mime, and theatrical experimentation.
-
E.
Under a Wing
"Under a Wing" is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh reflecting on her childhood and family life as the daughter of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
- 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: Bullet with Butterfly Wings Target entity description: "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a Grammy-winning 1995 alternative rock song by The Smashing Pumpkins, known for its heavy guitars, dark lyrics, and the iconic refrain "the world is a vampire."
-
A.
Bombs & Butterflies
Bombs & Butterflies is a studio album by the American jam band Widespread Panic, showcasing their Southern rock and improvisational style.
-
B.
Spread Your Bloody Wings
"Spread Your Bloody Wings" is a dark, minimalist folk song by Smog (Bill Callahan) from his 1997 album *The Doctor Came at Dawn*.
-
C.
The Man with Wings
The Man with Wings is a superhero alias of Sam Wilson, better known as Marvel's high-flying Avenger Falcon who uses advanced winged technology to fight crime.
-
D.
The Regard of Flight
The Regard of Flight is a critically acclaimed one-man stage show by Bill Irwin that blends physical comedy, mime, and theatrical experimentation.
-
E.
Under a Wing
"Under a Wing" is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh reflecting on her childhood and family life as the daughter of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | The Smashing Pumpkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| bassist | D'arcy Wretzky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 22 ⓘ |
| composer | Billy Corgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drummer | Jimmy Chamberlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBySingle | 1979 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
grunge ⓘ |
| guitarist |
Billy Corgan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Iha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLyric | the world is a vampire ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Bullet with Butterfly Wings music video ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideoDirector | Samuel Bayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOpeningLine | The world is a vampire ⓘ |
| hasRiffStyle | distorted guitar riff ⓘ |
| hasSongStructure | verse-chorus ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alienation
ⓘ
angst ⓘ frustration ⓘ |
| isFromAlbumDisc | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness – Twilight to Starlight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | The Smashing Pumpkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTrackNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Billy Corgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricist | Billy Corgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
7-inch vinyl single
ⓘ
CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
dark lyrics ⓘ heavy guitars ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | The Smashing Pumpkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBySingle | Disarm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Alan Moulder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billy Corgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Flood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedForLabel | Virgin Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Hut Recordings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virgin Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1995-10-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| tempo | mid-tempo ⓘ |
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: Bullet with Butterfly Wings Description of subject: "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a Grammy-winning 1995 alternative rock song by The Smashing Pumpkins, known for its heavy guitars, dark lyrics, and the iconic refrain "the world is a vampire."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.