Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
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Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory is a 1999 concept album by progressive metal band Dream Theater that tells a reincarnation-themed murder mystery through complex, virtuosic compositions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York | 1 |
| Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8544354 — 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: Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory Context triple: [Dream Theater, notableWork, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory]
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A.
Metropolis II
Metropolis II is a large-scale kinetic sculpture by artist Chris Burden that features hundreds of miniature cars racing through an intricate, futuristic cityscape.
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B.
Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase)
Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) is Janelle Monáe’s debut concept EP, introducing her futuristic android alter ego Cindi Mayweather in a genre-blending sci-fi narrative.
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C.
Metropolis I
Metropolis I is the debut studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, originally released in 1989 under the title "When Dream and Day Unite."
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D.
Metropolis
Metropolis is a major Ethereum protocol upgrade that introduced significant improvements to scalability, security, and usability of the blockchain.
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E.
Metropolis
Metropolis is a landmark 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering special effects and dystopian vision of a futuristic urban society.
- 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: Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory Target entity description: Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory is a 1999 concept album by progressive metal band Dream Theater that tells a reincarnation-themed murder mystery through complex, virtuosic compositions.
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A.
Metropolis II
Metropolis II is a large-scale kinetic sculpture by artist Chris Burden that features hundreds of miniature cars racing through an intricate, futuristic cityscape.
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B.
Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase)
Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) is Janelle Monáe’s debut concept EP, introducing her futuristic android alter ego Cindi Mayweather in a genre-blending sci-fi narrative.
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C.
Metropolis I
Metropolis I is the debut studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, originally released in 1989 under the title "When Dream and Day Unite."
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D.
Metropolis
Metropolis is a landmark 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering special effects and dystopian vision of a futuristic urban society.
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E.
Metropolis
Metropolis is a fictional, futuristic American city in the DC Comics universe, best known as Superman’s primary home and the backdrop for many of his stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concept album
ⓘ
progressive metal album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Dream Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Metropolis—Part I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| considered | one of Dream Theater's landmark albums ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
James LaBrie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Myung NERFINISHED ⓘ John Petrucci NERFINISHED ⓘ Jordan Rudess NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Portnoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Falling into Infinity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
progressive metal
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion | Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On
NERFINISHED
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Scene Five: Through Her Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ Scene Four: Beyond This Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Scene Nine: Finally Free NERFINISHED ⓘ Scene One: Regression NERFINISHED ⓘ Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity NERFINISHED ⓘ Scene Seven: II. One Last Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Scene Six: Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Scene Three: I. Through My Words NERFINISHED ⓘ Scene Three: II. Fatal Tragedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Scene Two: I. Overture 1928 ⓘ Scene Two: II. Strange Déjà Vu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 77 minutes ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nicholas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
murder mystery
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reincarnation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex song structures
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continuous narrative concept ⓘ virtuosic instrumental performances ⓘ |
| performer | Dream Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Doug Oberkircher
NERFINISHED
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Dream Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ John Petrucci NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Portnoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EastWest Records
NERFINISHED
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Elektra Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1999-10-26 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| setting | 1920s New York City ⓘ |
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: Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory Description of subject: Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory is a 1999 concept album by progressive metal band Dream Theater that tells a reincarnation-themed murder mystery through complex, virtuosic compositions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York