Hard to Say I'm Sorry
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"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a 1982 power ballad by the band Chicago, co-written and produced by David Foster, that became one of their biggest international hits.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hard to Say I'm Sorry canonical | 12 |
| Hard to Say I'm Sorry reached high positions on US charts | 1 |
| Hard to Say I'm Sorry reached the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1957965 — 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: Hard to Say I'm Sorry Context triple: [David Foster, notableWork, Hard to Say I'm Sorry]
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A.
Couldn’t Say No
"Couldn’t Say No" is a song featured on the album "Evolver" by the South African rock band Prime Circle.
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B.
It’s My Own Fault
"It’s My Own Fault" is a blues song famously performed by B.B. King, showcasing his expressive guitar work and emotive vocal style.
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C.
I Blame Myself
"I Blame Myself" is a synth-pop song by American singer Sky Ferreira, known for its confessional lyrics and its role in establishing her critically acclaimed indie-pop persona.
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D.
The Things I Say
"The Things I Say" is a song by the indie folk-rock musician Joanna Newsom from her album "Divers."
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E.
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a powerful, emotionally charged showstopper ballad from the musical Dreamgirls, best known for its demanding vocals and iconic performances by Jennifer Holliday and Jennifer Hudson.
- 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: Hard to Say I'm Sorry Target entity description: "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a 1982 power ballad by the band Chicago, co-written and produced by David Foster, that became one of their biggest international hits.
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A.
Couldn’t Say No
"Couldn’t Say No" is a song featured on the album "Evolver" by the South African rock band Prime Circle.
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B.
It’s My Own Fault
"It’s My Own Fault" is a blues song famously performed by B.B. King, showcasing his expressive guitar work and emotive vocal style.
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C.
I Blame Myself
"I Blame Myself" is a synth-pop song by American singer Sky Ferreira, known for its confessional lyrics and its role in establishing her critically acclaimed indie-pop persona.
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D.
The Things I Say
"The Things I Say" is a song by the indie folk-rock musician Joanna Newsom from her album "Divers."
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E.
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a powerful, emotionally charged showstopper ballad from the musical Dreamgirls, best known for its demanding vocals and iconic performances by Jennifer Holliday and Jennifer Hudson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Hard to Say I'm Sorry Description of subject: "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a 1982 power ballad by the band Chicago, co-written and produced by David Foster, that became one of their biggest international hits.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hard to Say I'm Sorry
subject linked to:
Chicago (band)
linked to: Hard to Say I'm Sorry
subject linked to:
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