Hurt
E117347
"Hurt" is a haunting, introspective song famously covered by Johnny Cash, whose stark performance and accompanying video poignantly reflect on pain, regret, and mortality.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hurt (Johnny Cash music video) | 4 |
| Hurt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T991560 — 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: Hurt Context triple: [Johnny Cash, notableWork, Hurt]
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A.
Hurt
"Hurt" is a powerful emotional ballad by Christina Aguilera, known for its dramatic vocals and themes of regret and loss.
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B.
Fallin'
"Fallin'" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys that served as her breakout debut single and became one of her signature songs.
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C.
Keep My Spirit Alive
"Keep My Spirit Alive" is a gospel-influenced hip-hop track from Kanye West’s album *Donda*, featuring introspective lyrics and guest verses from collaborators.
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D.
Free Fallin'
"Free Fallin'" is one of Tom Petty's most iconic rock songs, known for its melodic simplicity, reflective lyrics, and enduring popularity since its release in 1989.
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E.
Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball is a 2012 studio album by American rock musician Bruce Springsteen that blends rock, folk, and gospel influences to address themes of economic hardship and social justice.
- 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: Hurt Target entity description: "Hurt" is a haunting, introspective song famously covered by Johnny Cash, whose stark performance and accompanying video poignantly reflect on pain, regret, and mortality.
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A.
Hurt
"Hurt" is a powerful emotional ballad by Christina Aguilera, known for its dramatic vocals and themes of regret and loss.
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B.
Fallin'
"Fallin'" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys that served as her breakout debut single and became one of her signature songs.
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C.
Keep My Spirit Alive
"Keep My Spirit Alive" is a gospel-influenced hip-hop track from Kanye West’s album *Donda*, featuring introspective lyrics and guest verses from collaborators.
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D.
Free Fallin'
"Free Fallin'" is one of Tom Petty's most iconic rock songs, known for its melodic simplicity, reflective lyrics, and enduring popularity since its release in 1989.
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E.
Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball is a 2012 studio album by American rock musician Bruce Springsteen that blends rock, folk, and gospel influences to address themes of economic hardship and social justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| albumArtist | Nine Inch Nails ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist |
Johnny Cash
ⓘ
Nine Inch Nails ⓘ |
| composer | Trent Reznor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coveredBy | Johnny Cash ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
country (Johnny Cash version) ⓘ industrial rock ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
confrontation with aging and death
ⓘ
existential reflection ⓘ remorse over past actions ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo |
Hurt (Johnny Cash music video)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hurt
|
| includedIn | Johnny Cash album American IV: The Man Comes Around ⓘ |
| influencedPerceptionOf | Johnny Cash’s late-career legacy ⓘ |
| instrumentation | sparse arrangement (Johnny Cash version) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
addiction
ⓘ
mortality ⓘ pain ⓘ regret ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Mark Romanek ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Grammy Award for Best Rock Song
ⓘ
MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography (Johnny Cash video) ⓘ
linked to:
MTV VMA for Best Cinematography
|
| notableFor |
haunting Johnny Cash cover version
ⓘ
stark, introspective lyrics ⓘ |
| originallyPerformedBy | Nine Inch Nails ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | The Downward Spiral ⓘ |
| performer |
Johnny Cash
ⓘ
Nine Inch Nails ⓘ |
| producer |
Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash version)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rick Rubin
Trent Reznor ⓘ |
| rankedOnList | Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
American Recordings (Johnny Cash version)
ⓘ
linked to:
American Recordings
Interscope Records ⓘ Nothing Records ⓘ Universal (Johnny Cash version) ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
1994 (original Nine Inch Nails version)
ⓘ
2002 (Johnny Cash version) ⓘ |
| songwriter | Trent Reznor ⓘ |
| tempo | slow ⓘ |
| trackNumberOnAlbum |
14 (The Downward Spiral)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Downward Spiral
|
| vocalist |
Johnny Cash
ⓘ
Trent Reznor ⓘ |
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: Hurt Description of subject: "Hurt" is a haunting, introspective song famously covered by Johnny Cash, whose stark performance and accompanying video poignantly reflect on pain, regret, and mortality.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Hurt
linked to: Hurt
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