“Edge of a Broken Heart”
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“Edge of a Broken Heart” is a melodic hard rock song by the American all-female band Vixen that became one of their signature hits in the late 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| “Edge of a Broken Heart” canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10572396 — 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: “Edge of a Broken Heart” Context triple: [Vixen, notableWork, “Edge of a Broken Heart”]
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A.
“Break Your Heart”
"Break Your Heart" is a song by The Gaslight Anthem from their album *Get Hurt*, showcasing the band's emotionally charged, heartland rock style.
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B.
Edge of a Broken Heart
"Edge of a Broken Heart" is a 1988 hard rock song by American band Bon Jovi, best known from the soundtrack of the film "Disorderlies" and as a fan-favorite non-album track from the New Jersey era.
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C.
Broken-Hearted Melody
"Broken-Hearted Melody" is a popular 1959 pop and jazz song best known as one of Sarah Vaughan’s biggest commercial hits.
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D.
The Story of a Broken Heart
The Story of a Broken Heart is a lesser-known work by 19th-century British author Hugh Conway, likely a sentimental or melodramatic tale in keeping with his popular fiction style.
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E.
Dreaming with a Broken Heart
"Dreaming with a Broken Heart" is a melancholic piano-driven ballad by John Mayer that reflects on the lingering pain and longing after a breakup.
- 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: “Edge of a Broken Heart” Target entity description: “Edge of a Broken Heart” is a melodic hard rock song by the American all-female band Vixen that became one of their signature hits in the late 1980s.
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A.
“Break Your Heart”
"Break Your Heart" is a song by The Gaslight Anthem from their album *Get Hurt*, showcasing the band's emotionally charged, heartland rock style.
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B.
Edge of a Broken Heart
"Edge of a Broken Heart" is a 1988 hard rock song by American band Bon Jovi, best known from the soundtrack of the film "Disorderlies" and as a fan-favorite non-album track from the New Jersey era.
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C.
Broken-Hearted Melody
"Broken-Hearted Melody" is a popular 1959 pop and jazz song best known as one of Sarah Vaughan’s biggest commercial hits.
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D.
The Story of a Broken Heart
The Story of a Broken Heart is a lesser-known work by 19th-century British author Hugh Conway, likely a sentimental or melodramatic tale in keeping with his popular fiction style.
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E.
Dreaming with a Broken Heart
"Dreaming with a Broken Heart" is a melancholic piano-driven ballad by John Mayer that reflects on the lingering pain and longing after a breakup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chart | Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPosition | Billboard Hot 100 top 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Richard Marx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | late 1980s ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| genre |
glam metal
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ melodic rock ⓘ |
| hasBside | Charmed Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion | performed by various rock tribute acts ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | yes ⓘ |
| includedIn | Vixen compilation setlists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 4 minutes ⓘ |
| liveStapleFor | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricist | Fee Waybill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoPerformer | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of Vixen's signature hits ⓘ |
| partOf | Vixen (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerGender | all-female band ⓘ |
| producer | Richard Marx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1988 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
ⓘ
EMI Manhattan Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Fee Waybill
NERFINISHED
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Richard Marx 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: “Edge of a Broken Heart” Description of subject: “Edge of a Broken Heart” is a melodic hard rock song by the American all-female band Vixen that became one of their signature hits in the late 1980s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.