Can You Stand the Rain
E140495
"Can You Stand the Rain" is a 1988 R&B ballad by New Edition, known for its lush harmonies and themes of enduring love through difficult times.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Can You Stand the Rain canonical | 5 |
| Can You Stand the Rain (early version) | 1 |
| Can You Stand the Rain music video | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1230541 — 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: Can You Stand the Rain Context triple: [New Edition, notableWork, Can You Stand the Rain]
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A.
No Rain
"No Rain" is a 1992 alternative rock song by Blind Melon, best known for its catchy melody and iconic "bee girl" music video.
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B.
Tears and Rain
"Tears and Rain" is a song by James Blunt from his debut album *Back to Bedlam*, known for its melancholic lyrics and soft rock style.
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C.
Buckets of Rain
"Buckets of Rain" is a gentle, acoustic folk song by Bob Dylan, noted for its bittersweet, understated reflection on love and resilience and serving as the closing track on his acclaimed album *Blood on the Tracks*.
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D.
Standing in the Rainbow
Standing in the Rainbow is a nostalgic, character-driven novel by Fannie Flagg that portrays small-town American life in mid-20th-century Missouri with warmth and humor.
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E.
Love in the Rain
Love in the Rain is an Egyptian film featuring renowned actress Faten Hamama in a leading role.
- 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: Can You Stand the Rain Target entity description: "Can You Stand the Rain" is a 1988 R&B ballad by New Edition, known for its lush harmonies and themes of enduring love through difficult times.
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A.
No Rain
"No Rain" is a 1992 alternative rock song by Blind Melon, best known for its catchy melody and iconic "bee girl" music video.
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B.
Tears and Rain
"Tears and Rain" is a song by James Blunt from his debut album *Back to Bedlam*, known for its melancholic lyrics and soft rock style.
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C.
Buckets of Rain
"Buckets of Rain" is a gentle, acoustic folk song by Bob Dylan, noted for its bittersweet, understated reflection on love and resilience and serving as the closing track on his acclaimed album *Blood on the Tracks*.
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D.
Standing in the Rainbow
Standing in the Rainbow is a nostalgic, character-driven novel by Fannie Flagg that portrays small-town American life in mid-20th-century Missouri with warmth and humor.
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E.
Love in the Rain
Love in the Rain is an Egyptian film featuring renowned actress Faten Hamama in a leading role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Can You Stand the Rain Description of subject: "Can You Stand the Rain" is a 1988 R&B ballad by New Edition, known for its lush harmonies and themes of enduring love through difficult times.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Can You Stand the Rain
subject linked to:
You’re Not My Kind of Girl
subject linked to:
album "Chemistry" (1985)
linked to: Can You Stand the Rain