"Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (with The Staple Singers)
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"Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (with The Staple Singers) is a soulful civil-rights-era protest song performed by Mavis Staples and her family group The Staple Singers, known for its powerful plea against racial injustice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (with The Staple Singers) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4359231 — 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: "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (with The Staple Singers) Context triple: [Mavis Staples, notableSong, "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (with The Staple Singers)]
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A.
The Trouble I’ve Seen
The Trouble I’ve Seen is a collection of Depression-era short stories by journalist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, noted for its stark, compassionate portrayal of social hardship in 1930s America.
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B.
Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do
"Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do" is a classic early 20th-century blues song, popularized by Bessie Smith, that asserts personal independence and defiance of social judgment.
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C.
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
"Take My Hand, Precious Lord" is a classic gospel hymn, written by Thomas A. Dorsey and popularized by Mahalia Jackson, that has become one of the most influential and enduring songs in Christian music.
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D.
Ain’t No Sunshine (cover)
"Ain’t No Sunshine" (cover) is a reggae rendition of Bill Withers’ classic soul song, performed in Horace Andy’s distinctive, emotive vocal style.
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E.
I Want My Baby Back
"I Want My Baby Back" is a soul song recorded by Stevie Wonder, featured on his 1966 album "Up-Tight."
- 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: "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (with The Staple Singers) Target entity description: "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (with The Staple Singers) is a soulful civil-rights-era protest song performed by Mavis Staples and her family group The Staple Singers, known for its powerful plea against racial injustice.
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A.
The Trouble I’ve Seen
The Trouble I’ve Seen is a collection of Depression-era short stories by journalist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, noted for its stark, compassionate portrayal of social hardship in 1930s America.
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B.
Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do
"Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do" is a classic early 20th-century blues song, popularized by Bessie Smith, that asserts personal independence and defiance of social judgment.
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C.
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
"Take My Hand, Precious Lord" is a classic gospel hymn, written by Thomas A. Dorsey and popularized by Mahalia Jackson, that has become one of the most influential and enduring songs in Christian music.
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D.
Ain’t No Sunshine (cover)
"Ain’t No Sunshine" (cover) is a reggae rendition of Bill Withers’ classic soul song, performed in Horace Andy’s distinctive, emotive vocal style.
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E.
I Want My Baby Back
"I Want My Baby Back" is a soul song recorded by Stevie Wonder, featured on his 1966 album "Up-Tight."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| era | civil-rights era ⓘ |
| featuresArtist | Mavis Staples ⓘ |
| genre |
gospel
ⓘ
protest song ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricSubject |
appeal for dignity and equality
ⓘ
unfair treatment of Black Americans ⓘ |
| notableFor | powerful plea against racial injustice ⓘ |
| performedByFamilyGroup | The Staple Singers ⓘ |
| performedByMember |
Cleotha Staples
ⓘ
Pops Staples ⓘ Yvonne Staples ⓘ |
| performer | The Staple Singers ⓘ |
| theme |
civil rights
ⓘ
racial injustice ⓘ |
| vocalist | Mavis Staples ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | soulful ⓘ |
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: "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (with The Staple Singers) Description of subject: "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (with The Staple Singers) is a soulful civil-rights-era protest song performed by Mavis Staples and her family group The Staple Singers, known for its powerful plea against racial injustice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.