Waterloo
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Waterloo is a 1974 hit single by Swedish pop group ABBA that won the Eurovision Song Contest and became one of their most iconic and internationally successful songs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterloo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10393181 — 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: Waterloo Context triple: [ABBA 1980 tour, notableSongPerformed, Waterloo]
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Waterloo
Waterloo is a mid-sized Canadian city in southwestern Ontario known for its universities, tech industry, and role within the Kitchener–Waterloo metropolitan area.
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Waterloo
Waterloo is a major district in central London known for its busy railway station, cultural venues like the Southbank Centre, and proximity to landmarks such as the London Eye and the River Thames.
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C.
Waterloo
Waterloo was the original name of the settlement that later became the city of Austin, the capital of Texas.
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Waterloo
Waterloo is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, forming part of the wider Wishaw area.
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Waterloo
Waterloo is a small village in eastern Nebraska, United States, located along the Elkhorn River just west of Omaha.
- 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: Waterloo Target entity description: Waterloo is a 1974 hit single by Swedish pop group ABBA that won the Eurovision Song Contest and became one of their most iconic and internationally successful songs.
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A.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a town in present-day Belgium best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in 1815, which ended the Napoleonic Wars and reshaped European politics.
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Waterloo
Waterloo is a city in northeastern Iowa that serves as a regional hub for industry, transportation, and education along the Cedar River.
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C.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, known for its stretch of beach and proximity to Liverpool.
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D.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, forming part of the wider Wishaw area.
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E.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a major district in central London known for its busy railway station, cultural venues like the Southbank Centre, and proximity to landmarks such as the London Eye and the River Thames.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | ABBA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bSide | Watch Out NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustralia | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionBelgium | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionFrance | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionIreland | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNetherlands | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNorway | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionSweden | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionSwitzerland | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUK | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 6 ⓘ |
| chartPositionWestGermany | 1 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| eurovisionFinalDate | 1974-04-06 ⓘ |
| eurovisionHostCity | Brighton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eurovisionHostCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eurovisionPoints | 24 ⓘ |
| eurovisionRunningOrderPosition | 8 ⓘ |
| eurovisionVotingSystem | 10-point jury system ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
glam rock
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Waterloo (ABBA music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVersion | Waterloo (Swedish-language version) ⓘ |
| includedIn | ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 2:46 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Stig Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Battle of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
first Eurovision Song Contest win for Sweden
ⓘ
international breakthrough hit for ABBA ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Waterloo (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | ABBA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Benny Andersson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Björn Ulvaeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1974 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
ⓘ
Epic Records ⓘ Polar Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1974-03-04 ⓘ |
| representedCountry | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| songwriter |
Benny Andersson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Björn Ulvaeus NERFINISHED ⓘ Stig Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme | romantic relationship compared to Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo ⓘ |
| won | Eurovision Song Contest 1974 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfRelease | 1974 ⓘ |
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: Waterloo Description of subject: Waterloo is a 1974 hit single by Swedish pop group ABBA that won the Eurovision Song Contest and became one of their most iconic and internationally successful songs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.