Come Sail Away
E750506
"Come Sail Away" is a 1977 progressive rock and power ballad by Styx, known for its piano-driven opening, dramatic build, and enduring popularity on classic rock radio.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Come Sail Away canonical | 1 |
| Come Sail Away (album track) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8696894 — 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: Come Sail Away Context triple: [Styx, notableWork, Come Sail Away]
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A.
Sail Away
"Sail Away" is a 1972 song and album by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman, known for its satirical and poignant commentary on the American dream and slavery.
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B.
Sail Away
"Sail Away" is a song by Neil Young featured on his 1979 live album and concert film "Rust Never Sleeps."
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C.
Sail On
"Sail On" is a 1979 soft rock and soul ballad by the Commodores, featuring Lionel Richie and known for its smooth, country-tinged sound and themes of heartbreak and moving on.
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D.
Drift Away
"Drift Away" is a popular soft rock song, originally recorded by Dobie Gray and later famously covered by Uncle Kracker, known for its laid-back melody and nostalgic lyrics about the power of music.
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E.
Rock the Boat
"Rock the Boat" is a smooth, mid-tempo R&B song by Aaliyah, widely recognized as one of her signature hits and remembered as her final music video before her death.
- 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: Come Sail Away Target entity description: "Come Sail Away" is a 1977 progressive rock and power ballad by Styx, known for its piano-driven opening, dramatic build, and enduring popularity on classic rock radio.
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A.
Sail Away
"Sail Away" is a 1972 song and album by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman, known for its satirical and poignant commentary on the American dream and slavery.
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B.
Sail Away
"Sail Away" is a song by Neil Young featured on his 1979 live album and concert film "Rust Never Sleeps."
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C.
Sail On
"Sail On" is a 1979 soft rock and soul ballad by the Commodores, featuring Lionel Richie and known for its smooth, country-tinged sound and themes of heartbreak and moving on.
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D.
Drift Away
"Drift Away" is a popular soft rock song, originally recorded by Dobie Gray and later famously covered by Uncle Kracker, known for its laid-back melody and nostalgic lyrics about the power of music.
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E.
Rock the Boat
"Rock the Boat" is a smooth, mid-tempo R&B song by Aaliyah, widely recognized as one of her signature hits and remembered as her final music video before her death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | The Grand Illusion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Styx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Dennis DeYoung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1970s ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| genre |
power ballad
ⓘ
progressive rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion | Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | yes ⓘ |
| hasPart |
dramatic build
ⓘ
guitar solo ⓘ piano-driven introduction ⓘ synthesizer section ⓘ |
| includedIn | Styx live setlists ⓘ |
| isClassicRockStaple | true ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Styx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label | A&M Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length |
approximately 4 minutes (single edit)
ⓘ
approximately 6 minutes (album version) ⓘ |
| lyricist | Dennis DeYoung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeElement |
sailing metaphor
ⓘ
spaceship imagery ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
dreams and aspirations
ⓘ
escape and journey ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dramatic build
ⓘ
enduring popularity on classic rock radio ⓘ piano-driven opening ⓘ |
| originalMedium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| partOf | The Grand Illusion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Styx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Barry Mraz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Styx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| radioFormat | classic rock ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1977 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1977 ⓘ |
| tempoChange | ballad opening to rock climax ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | lead vocals by Dennis DeYoung ⓘ |
| writer | Dennis DeYoung 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: Come Sail Away Description of subject: "Come Sail Away" is a 1977 progressive rock and power ballad by Styx, known for its piano-driven opening, dramatic build, and enduring popularity on classic rock radio.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Come Sail Away (album track)