Teardrop
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"Teardrop" is a critically acclaimed trip-hop song by Massive Attack, best known for its haunting vocals and use as the theme music for the TV series House.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teardrop canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7288654 — 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: Teardrop Context triple: [Massive Attack, notableSong, Teardrop]
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A.
Teardrops
"Teardrops" is a song by Welsh rock and roll singer Shakin' Stevens, known as one of his notable releases during his chart-topping 1980s career.
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B.
White Bird
White Bird was a prominent Nez Perce leader and war chief who played a key role alongside Chief Joseph in resisting U.S. forces during the Nez Perce War of 1877.
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C.
Cradle
Cradle is a science fiction novel co-written by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee that explores alien contact, advanced technology, and humanity’s future.
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D.
Box of Rain
"Box of Rain" is a reflective, folk-influenced song by the Grateful Dead, co-written by Phil Lesh and Robert Hunter and known for its poignant lyrics and harmonies.
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E.
Parachute
"Parachute" is a soulful country song by Chris Stapleton that showcases his powerful vocals and blues-influenced style.
- 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: Teardrop Target entity description: "Teardrop" is a critically acclaimed trip-hop song by Massive Attack, best known for its haunting vocals and use as the theme music for the TV series House.
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A.
Teardrops
"Teardrops" is a song by Welsh rock and roll singer Shakin' Stevens, known as one of his notable releases during his chart-topping 1980s career.
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B.
White Bird
White Bird was a prominent Nez Perce leader and war chief who played a key role alongside Chief Joseph in resisting U.S. forces during the Nez Perce War of 1877.
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C.
Cradle
Cradle is a science fiction novel co-written by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee that explores alien contact, advanced technology, and humanity’s future.
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D.
Box of Rain
"Box of Rain" is a reflective, folk-influenced song by the Grateful Dead, co-written by Phil Lesh and Robert Hunter and known for its poignant lyrics and harmonies.
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E.
Parachute
"Parachute" is a soulful country song by Chris Stapleton that showcases his powerful vocals and blues-influenced style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| albumBy | Massive Attack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Massive Attack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Cocteau Twins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
charted in several European countries
ⓘ
reached top 10 in the UK Singles Chart ⓘ |
| composer |
Andrew Vowles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Fraser NERFINISHED ⓘ Grant Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Del Naja NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
drum machine
ⓘ
harpsichord-like keyboard sound ⓘ |
| featuresVocalStyle | haunting female vocals ⓘ |
| followedBySingle | Inertia Creeps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
electronic music
ⓘ
trip hop ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy |
José González
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lovespirals NERFINISHED ⓘ Newton Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKey | C minor ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Teardrop music video ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
introspection
ⓘ
loss ⓘ melancholy ⓘ |
| hasTimeSignature | 4/4 ⓘ |
| label |
Circa Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virgin Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 5:30 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Elizabeth Fraser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Walter Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | use as the theme music for the TV series House ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Mezzanine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfDiscographyOf | Massive Attack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Massive Attack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBySingle | Risingson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Massive Attack
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Neil Davidge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1997 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1998-04-27 ⓘ |
| singleLength | 4:09 ⓘ |
| televisionSeriesThemeFor | House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tempo | slow to mid-tempo ⓘ |
| usedAs | theme song of television series House ⓘ |
| vocalist | Elizabeth Fraser 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: Teardrop Description of subject: "Teardrop" is a critically acclaimed trip-hop song by Massive Attack, best known for its haunting vocals and use as the theme music for the TV series House.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.