The Lebanon
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"The Lebanon" is a politically charged 1984 synth-pop song by British band The Human League that comments on the Lebanese Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Lebanon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7305335 — 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 Lebanon Context triple: [The Human League, notableWork, The Lebanon]
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A.
Lebanon
Lebanon is a small Middle Eastern country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, known for its rich history, diverse religious and cultural heritage, and historic capital, Beirut.
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B.
Greater Lebanon
Greater Lebanon was a political entity created in 1920 under French colonial rule that expanded the boundaries of Mount Lebanon to form the basis of the modern state of Lebanon.
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C.
Circle of Lebanon
Circle of Lebanon is a distinctive ring of Victorian-era catacombs built around a historic cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery in London.
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D.
Nabatieh, Lebanon
Nabatieh is a predominantly Shia Muslim city in southern Lebanon known as a regional political and commercial center and for its major Ashura commemorations.
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E.
Ilanun
Ilanun refers to the Iranun people, a seafaring ethnic group of the southern Philippines and parts of Sabah known historically for maritime trade and raiding.
- 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 Lebanon Target entity description: "The Lebanon" is a politically charged 1984 synth-pop song by British band The Human League that comments on the Lebanese Civil War.
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A.
Lebanon
Lebanon is a small Middle Eastern country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, known for its rich history, diverse religious and cultural heritage, and historic capital, Beirut.
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B.
Greater Lebanon
Greater Lebanon was a political entity created in 1920 under French colonial rule that expanded the boundaries of Mount Lebanon to form the basis of the modern state of Lebanon.
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C.
Circle of Lebanon
Circle of Lebanon is a distinctive ring of Victorian-era catacombs built around a historic cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery in London.
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D.
Nabatieh, Lebanon
Nabatieh is a predominantly Shia Muslim city in southern Lebanon known as a regional political and commercial center and for its major Ashura commemorations.
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E.
Ilanun
Ilanun refers to the Iranun people, a seafaring ethnic group of the southern Philippines and parts of Sabah known historically for maritime trade and raiding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Hysteria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | The Human League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Thirteen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionIrishSinglesChart | 7 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 11 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
electric guitar
ⓘ
synthesizer ⓘ |
| featuresVocalist |
Joanne Catherall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philip Oakey NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Ann Sulley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
synth-pop ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | true ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalCommentaryOn | Middle East conflict ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalTheme | true ⓘ |
| isAboutLocation | Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | The Human League discography ⓘ |
| isPoliticallyCharged | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length7InchVersion | 3:43 ⓘ |
| lengthAlbumVersion | 5:04 ⓘ |
| lyricSubject | Lebanese Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Steve Barron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextSingle | Life on Your Own NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Hysteria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | The Human League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousSingle | (Keep Feeling) Fascination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Chris Thomas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hugh Padgham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Virgin Music Publishers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1983–1984 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Virgin Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1984-04-23 ⓘ |
| releaseSequenceInBandSingles | first single from album Hysteria ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| theme | Lebanese Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trackNumberOnAlbumHysteria | 1 ⓘ |
| writer |
Ian Burden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jo Callis NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanne Catherall NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Adrian Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Oakey NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Ann Sulley 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 Lebanon Description of subject: "The Lebanon" is a politically charged 1984 synth-pop song by British band The Human League that comments on the Lebanese Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.