Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own
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"Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own" is a U2 rock ballad, written as a tribute to Bono’s late father and released as a single from their 2004 album.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1130798 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own Context triple: [How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, containsTrack, Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own]
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A.
On Our Own
On Our Own is a 1989 R&B/new jack swing single by Bobby Brown, best known as the theme song for the film "Ghostbusters II."
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Try It on My Own
"Try It on My Own" is a power ballad by Whitney Houston that showcases her vocal prowess and themes of independence and self-reliance.
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Our Very Own
"Our Very Own" is a 1950 American drama film starring Ann Blyth and Jane Wyatt that explores the emotional upheaval of a teenager who discovers she is adopted.
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D.
Leave Home
Leave Home is the Ramones’ second studio album, a seminal 1977 punk rock release known for its fast, catchy songs and influence on the genre’s development.
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E.
Everything I Thought It Was
"Everything I Thought It Was" is a pop and R&B studio album by American singer Justin Timberlake, marking his return to music after a lengthy hiatus.
- 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: Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own Target entity description: "Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own" is a U2 rock ballad, written as a tribute to Bono’s late father and released as a single from their 2004 album.
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A.
On Our Own
On Our Own is a 1989 R&B/new jack swing single by Bobby Brown, best known as the theme song for the film "Ghostbusters II."
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B.
Try It on My Own
"Try It on My Own" is a power ballad by Whitney Houston that showcases her vocal prowess and themes of independence and self-reliance.
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C.
Our Very Own
"Our Very Own" is a 1950 American drama film starring Ann Blyth and Jane Wyatt that explores the emotional upheaval of a teenager who discovers she is adopted.
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D.
Leave Home
Leave Home is the Ramones’ second studio album, a seminal 1977 punk rock release known for its fast, catchy songs and influence on the genre’s development.
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E.
Everything I Thought It Was
"Everything I Thought It Was" is a pop and R&B studio album by American singer Justin Timberlake, marking his return to music after a lengthy hiatus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own Description of subject: "Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own" is a U2 rock ballad, written as a tribute to Bono’s late father and released as a single from their 2004 album.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
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U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
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