Where Were You When I Needed You
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"Where Were You When I Needed You" is a soul/R&B song best known as the B-side to Stevie Wonder’s 1968 single "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Where Were You When I Needed You canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13055871 — 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: Where Were You When I Needed You Context triple: [Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You), hasPart, Where Were You When I Needed You]
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A.
When I Need You
"When I Need You" is a popular soft rock ballad from the 1970s, best known through Leo Sayer's hit recording and widely covered by various artists.
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B.
If I Needed You
"If I Needed You" is a country song best known from its duet recording by Emmylou Harris and Don Williams, featured on Harris's 1981 album "Cimarron."
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C.
Where Were You
"Where Were You" is a song by the American metalcore band Departure.
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D.
We Need You
"We Need You" is a song featured on Diana Ross's 1973 soul and pop album "Touch Me in the Morning."
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E.
I Need You Tonight
"I Need You Tonight" is a hip hop single by Junior M.A.F.I.A., known for its smooth, R&B-influenced sound and association with the mid-1990s New York rap scene.
- 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: Where Were You When I Needed You Target entity description: "Where Were You When I Needed You" is a soul/R&B song best known as the B-side to Stevie Wonder’s 1968 single "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)."
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A.
When I Need You
"When I Need You" is a popular soft rock ballad from the 1970s, best known through Leo Sayer's hit recording and widely covered by various artists.
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B.
If I Needed You
"If I Needed You" is a country song best known from its duet recording by Emmylou Harris and Don Williams, featured on Harris's 1981 album "Cimarron."
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C.
Where Were You
"Where Were You" is a song by the American metalcore band Departure.
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D.
We Need You
"We Need You" is a song featured on Diana Ross's 1973 soul and pop album "Touch Me in the Morning."
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E.
I Need You Tonight
"I Need You Tonight" is a hip hop single by Junior M.A.F.I.A., known for its smooth, R&B-influenced sound and association with the mid-1990s New York rap scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
R&B song
ⓘ
single ⓘ song ⓘ soul song ⓘ |
| artist | Stevie Wonder ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
rhythm and blues
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soul ⓘ |
| hasBside | Where Were You When I Needed You ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
R&B
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soul ⓘ |
| notableAs | B-side to Stevie Wonder’s 1968 single Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You) ⓘ |
| partOfSingle | Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You) ⓘ |
| performer |
Stevie Wonder
ⓘ
Stevie Wonder ⓘ |
| positionOnSingle | B-side ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Stevie Wonder ⓘ |
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: Where Were You When I Needed You Description of subject: "Where Were You When I Needed You" is a soul/R&B song best known as the B-side to Stevie Wonder’s 1968 single "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.