One Hundred Ways
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"One Hundred Ways" is a smooth R&B ballad best known for James Ingram’s soulful vocal performance and its appearance on Quincy Jones’s acclaimed 1981 album "The Dude."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| One Hundred Ways canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3102320 — 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: One Hundred Ways Context triple: [Quincy Jones, notableSong, One Hundred Ways]
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A.
One Hundred Easy Ways
One Hundred Easy Ways is a comedic song from the 1953 Broadway musical Wonderful Town, known for its witty lyrics about a woman's humorous misadventures in romance.
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B.
Any Which Way You Can
Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 action-comedy film starring Clint Eastwood that follows a bare-knuckle brawler and his orangutan companion in a series of misadventures.
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C.
The Only Way I Know
"The Only Way I Know" is Cal Ripken Jr.'s autobiographical book reflecting on his baseball career, work ethic, and the principles behind his famed Iron Man streak.
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D.
Any Way You Want It
"Any Way You Want It" is a high-energy rock song by the American band Journey, best known for its catchy chorus and enduring popularity as a classic rock radio staple.
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E.
There's Got to Be a Way
"There's Got to Be a Way" is a socially conscious pop and R&B song by Mariah Carey that addresses issues of poverty, racism, and the need for global unity.
- 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: One Hundred Ways Target entity description: "One Hundred Ways" is a smooth R&B ballad best known for James Ingram’s soulful vocal performance and its appearance on Quincy Jones’s acclaimed 1981 album "The Dude."
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A.
One Hundred Easy Ways
One Hundred Easy Ways is a comedic song from the 1953 Broadway musical Wonderful Town, known for its witty lyrics about a woman's humorous misadventures in romance.
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B.
Any Which Way You Can
Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 action-comedy film starring Clint Eastwood that follows a bare-knuckle brawler and his orangutan companion in a series of misadventures.
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C.
The Only Way I Know
"The Only Way I Know" is Cal Ripken Jr.'s autobiographical book reflecting on his baseball career, work ethic, and the principles behind his famed Iron Man streak.
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D.
Any Way You Want It
"Any Way You Want It" is a high-energy rock song by the American band Journey, best known for its catchy chorus and enduring popularity as a classic rock radio staple.
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E.
There's Got to Be a Way
"There's Got to Be a Way" is a socially conscious pop and R&B song by Mariah Carey that addresses issues of poverty, racism, and the need for global unity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | The Dude ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
James Ingram
ⓘ
Quincy Jones ⓘ |
| award | Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
Billboard Adult Contemporary chart hit
ⓘ
Billboard Hot 100 top 20 ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Billboard R&B chart hit ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredVocalist | James Ingram ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
orchestral arrangement
ⓘ
rhythm section ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
expressing love in many ways
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ |
| includedOn | James Ingram compilation albums ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicalEra | 1980s R&B ⓘ |
| notableFor |
James Ingram’s soulful vocal performance
ⓘ
appearance on Quincy Jones’s album The Dude ⓘ |
| partOf | The Dude ⓘ |
| performer | James Ingram ⓘ |
| producer | Quincy Jones ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
| recordLabel | A&M Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| tempo | slow ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | smooth ballad ⓘ |
| writer |
Benjamin Wright
ⓘ
Kathy Wakefield ⓘ Tony Coleman ⓘ |
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: One Hundred Ways Description of subject: "One Hundred Ways" is a smooth R&B ballad best known for James Ingram’s soulful vocal performance and its appearance on Quincy Jones’s acclaimed 1981 album "The Dude."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.