The Way
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"The Way" is a 2013 pop-R&B single by Ariana Grande featuring Mac Miller that served as her breakout hit and introduced her to mainstream audiences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Way canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7288906 — 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: The Way Context triple: [Ariana Grande, notableWork, The Way]
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A.
The Way
The Way is a 2010 drama film directed by Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen, following a father's pilgrimage along Spain's Camino de Santiago after the death of his son.
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B.
the Way
The Way is a spiritual and philosophical path central to many Eastern traditions, often referring to the natural, harmonious order of the universe and the proper way of living in accord with it.
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C.
The Open Road
"The Open Road" is a chapter in Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, depicting the characters' adventures and sense of freedom while traveling.
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D.
Camino
Camino is a small municipality in Italy’s Piedmont region, situated within the historic, hilly wine-producing area of Monferrato.
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E.
The Road Home
The Road Home is a 1999 Chinese romantic drama film directed by Zhang Yimou, known for its lyrical storytelling and evocative cinematography depicting a young woman's devotion to her beloved.
- 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: The Way Target entity description: "The Way" is a 2013 pop-R&B single by Ariana Grande featuring Mac Miller that served as her breakout hit and introduced her to mainstream audiences.
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A.
The Way
The Way is a 2010 drama film directed by Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen, following a father's pilgrimage along Spain's Camino de Santiago after the death of his son.
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B.
the Way
The Way is a spiritual and philosophical path central to many Eastern traditions, often referring to the natural, harmonious order of the universe and the proper way of living in accord with it.
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C.
The Open Road
"The Open Road" is a chapter in Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, depicting the characters' adventures and sense of freedom while traveling.
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D.
Camino
Camino is a small municipality in Italy’s Piedmont region, situated within the historic, hilly wine-producing area of Monferrato.
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E.
The Road Home
The Road Home is a 1999 Chinese romantic drama film directed by Zhang Yimou, known for its lyrical storytelling and evocative cinematography depicting a young woman's devotion to her beloved.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Yours Truly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Ariana Grande NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToDiscographyOf | Ariana Grande NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certification | RIAA triple platinum ⓘ |
| certifiedBy | Recording Industry Association of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartedIn |
Canadian Hot 100
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UK Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ US Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 9 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuredArtist | Mac Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsSingle | Put Your Hearts Up NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| hasISRC | USUM71302178 ⓘ |
| hasMusicalElement |
R&B-influenced beat
ⓘ
piano-driven production ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | The Way (music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme | romantic love ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Yours Truly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedArtistTo | mainstream audiences ⓘ |
| isDebutSingleOf | Ariana Grande NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Chris Marrs Piliero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Ariana Grande’s breakout hit ⓘ |
| performer |
Ariana Grande
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mac Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedesSingle | Baby I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Harmony Samuels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 2012 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Republic Records
ⓘ
Universal Republic Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2013-03-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| sampleSourceArtist |
Big Pun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesSampleOrInterpolationOf | Still Not a Player NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Al Sherrod Lambert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ariana Grande NERFINISHED ⓘ Harmony Samuels NERFINISHED ⓘ Jordan Sparks NERFINISHED ⓘ Jordin Sparks NERFINISHED ⓘ Mac Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Malik Yusef 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: The Way Description of subject: "The Way" is a 2013 pop-R&B single by Ariana Grande featuring Mac Miller that served as her breakout hit and introduced her to mainstream audiences.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ariana Grande
subject surface form:
Yours Truly
subject surface form:
Yours Truly