Who Do You Want to Be?
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"Who Do You Want to Be?" is a high-energy new wave song by Oingo Boingo, known for its satirical lyrics and prominent use in 1980s pop culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Who Do You Want to Be? canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4047072 — 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: Who Do You Want to Be? Context triple: [Oingo Boingo, notableWork, Who Do You Want to Be?]
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A.
What Do You Want?
"What Do You Want?" is a 1959 British pop single by Adam Faith that became one of his biggest hits and a defining song of his early career.
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B.
Whatever You Want
"Whatever You Want" is a smooth R&B ballad by Tony! Toni! Toné! that became one of the group's signature hits in the early 1990s.
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C.
Do You Want More?!!!??!
"Do You Want More?!!!??!" is the critically acclaimed 1995 major-label debut studio album by hip hop band The Roots, noted for its live instrumentation and jazz-influenced, alternative rap sound.
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D.
Who Are You
"Who Are You" is a 1978 rock song by The Who, widely recognized for its use as the theme music for the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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E.
Guess Who
Guess Who is a song by the American rock band Alabama Shakes from their critically acclaimed album "Sound & Color."
- 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: Who Do You Want to Be? Target entity description: "Who Do You Want to Be?" is a high-energy new wave song by Oingo Boingo, known for its satirical lyrics and prominent use in 1980s pop culture.
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A.
What Do You Want?
"What Do You Want?" is a 1959 British pop single by Adam Faith that became one of his biggest hits and a defining song of his early career.
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B.
Whatever You Want
"Whatever You Want" is a smooth R&B ballad by Tony! Toni! Toné! that became one of the group's signature hits in the early 1990s.
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C.
Do You Want More?!!!??!
"Do You Want More?!!!??!" is the critically acclaimed 1995 major-label debut studio album by hip hop band The Roots, noted for its live instrumentation and jazz-influenced, alternative rap sound.
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D.
Who Are You
"Who Are You" is a 1978 rock song by The Who, widely recognized for its use as the theme music for the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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E.
Guess Who
Guess Who is a song by the American rock band Alabama Shakes from their critically acclaimed album "Sound & Color."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Good for Your Soul ⓘ |
| composer | Danny Elfman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
new wave
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rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ horn section ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
high-energy
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satirical lyrics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Danny Elfman ⓘ |
| medium | vinyl single ⓘ |
| musicalArtist | Oingo Boingo ⓘ |
| musicalBand | Oingo Boingo ⓘ |
| notableIn | 1980s pop culture ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Good for Your Soul ⓘ |
| performer |
Danny Elfman
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Oingo Boingo ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
A&M Records
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MCA Records ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
satirical social commentary
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up-tempo rhythm ⓘ |
| use | prominent use in 1980s pop culture ⓘ |
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: Who Do You Want to Be? Description of subject: "Who Do You Want to Be?" is a high-energy new wave song by Oingo Boingo, known for its satirical lyrics and prominent use in 1980s pop culture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Farewell: Live from the Universal Amphitheatre, Halloween 1995
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