The Way It Was
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"The Way It Was" is a song by American rock band The Killers from their 2012 album "Battle Born."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Way It Was canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8569035 — 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 It Was Context triple: [Battle Born, hasPart, The Way It Was]
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A.
The Way It Used to Be
"The Way It Used to Be" is a pop song by American singer-songwriter Mike Posner that reflects on nostalgia and the emotional aftermath of a past relationship.
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B.
The Way It Is
"The Way It Is" is the 2005 debut studio album by American R&B singer Keyshia Cole, featuring emotionally driven songs about love, heartbreak, and personal struggle.
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C.
The Way Life Used to Be
"The Way Life Used to Be" is a track by Snoop Dogg from his album *Doggumentary*, reflecting on nostalgia and changes over time in his life and surroundings.
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D.
That’s the Way It Is
"That’s the Way It Is" is an upbeat pop song by Celine Dion, released in 1999 and known for its empowering lyrics and strong vocal performance.
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E.
Old & In the Way
Old & In the Way was a 1970s American bluegrass supergroup known for popularizing progressive bluegrass through its virtuosic playing and influential live recordings.
- 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 It Was Target entity description: "The Way It Was" is a song by American rock band The Killers from their 2012 album "Battle Born."
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A.
The Way It Used to Be
"The Way It Used to Be" is a pop song by American singer-songwriter Mike Posner that reflects on nostalgia and the emotional aftermath of a past relationship.
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B.
The Way It Is
"The Way It Is" is the 2005 debut studio album by American R&B singer Keyshia Cole, featuring emotionally driven songs about love, heartbreak, and personal struggle.
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C.
The Way Life Used to Be
"The Way Life Used to Be" is a track by Snoop Dogg from his album *Doggumentary*, reflecting on nostalgia and changes over time in his life and surroundings.
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D.
That’s the Way It Is
"That’s the Way It Is" is an upbeat pop song by Celine Dion, released in 1999 and known for its empowering lyrics and strong vocal performance.
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E.
Old & In the Way
Old & In the Way was a 1970s American bluegrass supergroup known for popularizing progressive bluegrass through its virtuosic playing and influential live recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Battle Born NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | The Killers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer |
Brandon Flowers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Keuning NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Stoermer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronnie Vannucci Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
heartland rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | false ⓘ |
| hasType | album track ⓘ |
| includedIn | Battle Born (deluxe edition track list) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Brandon Flowers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Battle Born NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer |
American rock band The Killers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brandon Flowers NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Keuning NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Stoermer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronnie Vannucci Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Killers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Brandon Flowers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Damian Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Lillywhite ⓘ The Killers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Island Records
ⓘ
Vertigo Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
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 It Was Description of subject: "The Way It Was" is a song by American rock band The Killers from their 2012 album "Battle Born."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.