From a Distance
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"From a Distance" is a popular ballad best known through Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning 1990 recording, which became an international hit and an emblematic peace-themed song.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| From a Distance canonical | 9 |
| "From a Distance" | 2 |
| From a Distance (Bette Midler recording) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T483897 — 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: From a Distance Context triple: [Bette Midler, notableSong, From a Distance]
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A.
Holy Place
The Holy Place was the inner sanctuary of the ancient Israelite tabernacle and later the Jerusalem Temple, where priests performed daily rituals before the Most Holy Place.
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B.
As We Go
As We Go is a collection of essays by American writer and editor Charles Dudley Warner, reflecting his observations on everyday life and society in the late 19th century.
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C.
Yonder We Go
"Yonder We Go" is a track from the folk album *Harrow Songs* by English singer-songwriter and guitarist James Yorkston.
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D.
So Gone
"So Gone" is an R&B song best known as a 2003 hit single by Monica, produced by Missy Elliott and Kanye West.
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E.
Like a Stone
"Like a Stone" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Audioslave, renowned for Chris Cornell’s haunting vocals and reflective lyrics on mortality and longing.
- 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: From a Distance Target entity description: "From a Distance" is a popular ballad best known through Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning 1990 recording, which became an international hit and an emblematic peace-themed song.
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A.
Holy Place
The Holy Place was the inner sanctuary of the ancient Israelite tabernacle and later the Jerusalem Temple, where priests performed daily rituals before the Most Holy Place.
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B.
As We Go
As We Go is a collection of essays by American writer and editor Charles Dudley Warner, reflecting his observations on everyday life and society in the late 19th century.
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C.
Yonder We Go
"Yonder We Go" is a track from the folk album *Harrow Songs* by English singer-songwriter and guitarist James Yorkston.
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D.
So Gone
"So Gone" is an R&B song best known as a 2003 hit single by Monica, produced by Missy Elliott and Kanye West.
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E.
Like a Stone
"Like a Stone" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Audioslave, renowned for Chris Cornell’s haunting vocals and reflective lyrics on mortality and longing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: From a Distance Description of subject: "From a Distance" is a popular ballad best known through Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning 1990 recording, which became an international hit and an emblematic peace-themed song.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
From a Distance
this entity surface form:
From a Distance (Bette Midler recording)
subject surface form:
From a Distance (Bette Midler recording)
this entity surface form:
"From a Distance"
this entity surface form:
"From a Distance"