We Used to Wait
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"We Used to Wait" is a song by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, known for its driving piano, urgent vocals, and themes of nostalgia and technological change.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| We Used to Wait canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9059635 — 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: We Used to Wait Context triple: [The Suburbs, notableTrack, We Used to Wait]
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A.
While We Wait
"While We Wait" is a 2019 R&B mixtape by American singer Kehlani, known for its intimate songwriting and smooth, soulful production.
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B.
Are We the Waiting
"Are We the Waiting" is a mid-tempo, atmospheric rock song by Green Day from their concept album *American Idiot*, reflecting themes of disillusionment and longing.
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C.
I Will Wait
"I Will Wait" is the English title of the classic French song "J’attendrai," a popular wartime ballad known for its themes of longing and devotion.
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D.
I Will Wait
"I Will Wait" is a folk rock song by British band Mumford & Sons that became one of their most popular and commercially successful singles.
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E.
Willing to Wait
"Willing to Wait" is a romantic R&B ballad by Rihanna from her debut studio album, *Music of the Sun*.
- 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: We Used to Wait Target entity description: "We Used to Wait" is a song by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, known for its driving piano, urgent vocals, and themes of nostalgia and technological change.
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A.
While We Wait
"While We Wait" is a 2019 R&B mixtape by American singer Kehlani, known for its intimate songwriting and smooth, soulful production.
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B.
Are We the Waiting
"Are We the Waiting" is a mid-tempo, atmospheric rock song by Green Day from their concept album *American Idiot*, reflecting themes of disillusionment and longing.
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C.
I Will Wait
"I Will Wait" is the English title of the classic French song "J’attendrai," a popular wartime ballad known for its themes of longing and devotion.
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D.
I Will Wait
"I Will Wait" is a folk rock song by British band Mumford & Sons that became one of their most popular and commercially successful singles.
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E.
Willing to Wait
"Willing to Wait" is a romantic R&B ballad by Rihanna from her debut studio album, *Music of the Sun*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | The Suburbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Arcade Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWork | The Wilderness Downtown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
2010s songs
ⓘ
Arcade Fire songs ⓘ |
| chartPerformance | charted in several countries ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| followedBy | Ready to Start NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
driving piano
ⓘ
urgent vocals ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
communication
ⓘ
modern life ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ technological change ⓘ waiting ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Arcade Fire discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 5:03 ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | The Suburbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Arcade Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Month of May ⓘ |
| producer |
Arcade Fire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh Tillman NERFINISHED ⓘ Markus Dravs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 2008–2010 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Mercury Records
ⓘ
Merge Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonovox Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2010-08-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| usedIn | interactive music video The Wilderness Downtown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle |
anthemic
ⓘ
urgent ⓘ |
| writer |
Jeremy Gara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard Reed Parry NERFINISHED ⓘ Régine Chassagne NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Kingsbury NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ Win Butler 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: We Used to Wait Description of subject: "We Used to Wait" is a song by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, known for its driving piano, urgent vocals, and themes of nostalgia and technological change.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Wilderness Downtown