Mama Tried
E247439
"Mama Tried" is a classic 1968 country song by Merle Haggard that reflects on regret and personal responsibility from the perspective of an imprisoned man.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mama Tried canonical | 9 |
| "Mama Tried" | 1 |
| Mama Tried (1968 single) | 1 |
| Mama Tried (1968 studio album) | 1 |
| Mama Tried (Merle Haggard song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2249341 — 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: Mama Tried Context triple: [Merle Haggard, notableWork, Mama Tried]
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A.
Mama Said
"Mama Said" is a 1991 rock album by American musician Lenny Kravitz that blends classic rock, soul, and funk influences and includes the hit single "It Ain't Over 'til It's Over."
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B.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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C.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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D.
I’m Goin’ Down
"I'm Goin' Down" is a song by Bruce Springsteen, featured on his 1984 album *Born in the U.S.A.*.
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E.
Mama’s Gun
Mama’s Gun is a critically acclaimed neo-soul album by Erykah Badu, known for its warm, live instrumentation and introspective, socially conscious songwriting.
- 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: Mama Tried Target entity description: "Mama Tried" is a classic 1968 country song by Merle Haggard that reflects on regret and personal responsibility from the perspective of an imprisoned man.
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A.
Mama Said
"Mama Said" is a 1991 rock album by American musician Lenny Kravitz that blends classic rock, soul, and funk influences and includes the hit single "It Ain't Over 'til It's Over."
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B.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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C.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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D.
I’m Goin’ Down
"I'm Goin' Down" is a song by Bruce Springsteen, featured on his 1984 album *Born in the U.S.A.*.
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E.
Mama’s Gun
Mama’s Gun is a critically acclaimed neo-soul album by Erykah Badu, known for its warm, live instrumentation and introspective, socially conscious songwriting.
- 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: Mama Tried Description of subject: "Mama Tried" is a classic 1968 country song by Merle Haggard that reflects on regret and personal responsibility from the perspective of an imprisoned man.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
backing band for Merle Haggard
linked to: Mama Tried
linked to: Mama Tried
linked to: Mama Tried