Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You
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"Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You" is a 1970s funk and soul track by James Brown that has been notably sampled in later hip-hop and R&B music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3983387 — 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: Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You Context triple: [No Church in the Wild, usesSampleOf, Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You]
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A.
No Lie
"No Lie" is a popular hip-hop single by 2 Chainz featuring Drake, known for its catchy hook and heavy bass production.
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B.
Don’t Tell Me You Love Me
"Don’t Tell Me You Love Me" is a song featured on Big Sean’s debut studio album "Finally Famous."
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C.
Tell Me That It Isn't True
"Tell Me That It Isn't True" is a country-influenced song by Bob Dylan featured on his late-1960s album Nashville Skyline.
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D.
Can’t Tell Me Nothing
"Can’t Tell Me Nothing" is a critically acclaimed hip-hop single by Kanye West known for its introspective lyrics and anthemic production.
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E.
One of My Lies
"One of My Lies" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their early studio album "Kerplunk."
- 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: Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You Target entity description: "Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You" is a 1970s funk and soul track by James Brown that has been notably sampled in later hip-hop and R&B music.
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A.
No Lie
"No Lie" is a popular hip-hop single by 2 Chainz featuring Drake, known for its catchy hook and heavy bass production.
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B.
Don’t Tell Me You Love Me
"Don’t Tell Me You Love Me" is a song featured on Big Sean’s debut studio album "Finally Famous."
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C.
Tell Me That It Isn't True
"Tell Me That It Isn't True" is a country-influenced song by Bob Dylan featured on his late-1960s album Nashville Skyline.
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D.
Can’t Tell Me Nothing
"Can’t Tell Me Nothing" is a critically acclaimed hip-hop single by Kanye West known for its introspective lyrics and anthemic production.
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E.
One of My Lies
"One of My Lies" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their early studio album "Kerplunk."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | James Brown ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
breakbeat usage
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sampling culture ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
funk
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soul ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | African-American popular music ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
later R&B production
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later hip hop production ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
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drum kit ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ horn section ⓘ rhythm section ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | James Brown funk style ⓘ |
| hasRhythmicFeature | syncopated funk groove ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacteristic |
conditional statement in title
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long conversational title ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | James Brown lead vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
retaliation for dishonesty
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truth and lies in relationships ⓘ |
| musicalEra | 1970s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being sampled in R&B music
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being sampled in hip hop music ⓘ |
| partOf | James Brown song catalog ⓘ |
| performer | James Brown ⓘ |
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: Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You Description of subject: "Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You" is a 1970s funk and soul track by James Brown that has been notably sampled in later hip-hop and R&B music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
No Church in the Wild
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usesSampleOf
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Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth on You
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