"Don’t Cry, Baby"
E488548
"Don’t Cry, Baby" is a crime novel by William P. McGivern that served as the literary source for the 1954 film noir "Crime Wave."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Don’t Cry, Baby" canonical | 1 |
| Don’t Cry, Baby | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042172 — 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 Cry, Baby" Context triple: [Crime Wave, basedOn, "Don’t Cry, Baby"]
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A.
Cry Baby
"Cry Baby" is a powerful blues-rock song made famous by Janis Joplin, showcasing her raw, emotive vocal style and becoming one of her signature performances.
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B.
Talking ’bout My Baby
"Talking ’bout My Baby" is a track by British DJ and producer Fatboy Slim, featured on his 2000 album "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars."
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C.
Don’t Cry No Tears
"Don’t Cry No Tears" is a Neil Young song, best known as the opening track of his 1975 album *Zuma*, blending country-rock influences with themes of heartbreak and regret.
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D.
Don’t Cry
"Don’t Cry" is a popular rock ballad by the American band Guns N’ Roses, known for its emotional lyrics and powerful guitar work.
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E.
Crybaby
"Crybaby" is a track from the 2015 album *Rainbow* by American singer-songwriter Kesha, blending pop and electronic elements with emotionally charged lyrics.
- 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 Cry, Baby" Target entity description: "Don’t Cry, Baby" is a crime novel by William P. McGivern that served as the literary source for the 1954 film noir "Crime Wave."
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A.
Cry Baby
"Cry Baby" is a powerful blues-rock song made famous by Janis Joplin, showcasing her raw, emotive vocal style and becoming one of her signature performances.
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B.
Talking ’bout My Baby
"Talking ’bout My Baby" is a track by British DJ and producer Fatboy Slim, featured on his 2000 album "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars."
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C.
Don’t Cry No Tears
"Don’t Cry No Tears" is a Neil Young song, best known as the opening track of his 1975 album *Zuma*, blending country-rock influences with themes of heartbreak and regret.
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D.
Don’t Cry
"Don’t Cry" is a popular rock ballad by the American band Guns N’ Roses, known for its emotional lyrics and powerful guitar work.
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E.
Crybaby
"Crybaby" is a track from the 2015 album *Rainbow* by American singer-songwriter Kesha, blending pop and electronic elements with emotionally charged lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime film
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crime novel ⓘ film noir ⓘ novel ⓘ person ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Crime Wave (1954 film) ⓘ |
| author | William P. McGivern ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Don’t Cry, Baby
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linked to:
"Don’t Cry, Baby"
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
crime fiction
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noir fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | William P. McGivern ⓘ |
| literarySourceFor | Crime Wave (1954 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime fiction writer
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novelist ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
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 Cry, Baby" Description of subject: "Don’t Cry, Baby" is a crime novel by William P. McGivern that served as the literary source for the 1954 film noir "Crime Wave."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
"Don’t Cry, Baby"
linked to: "Don’t Cry, Baby"