"Just Because"
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"Just Because" is a soulful R&B ballad by American singer Anita Baker, showcasing her rich vocals and emotive, jazz-inflected style.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Just Because | 3 |
| "Just Because" canonical | 1 |
| “Just Because” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5270991 — 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: "Just Because" Context triple: [Anita Baker, notableSong, "Just Because"]
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A.
Just Don't
"Just Don't" is a song by American musician Raphael Saadiq from his retro-soul album "Stone Rollin'."
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B.
"Only Sixteen"
"Only Sixteen" is a popular 1959 teen ballad originally recorded by Sam Cooke that reflects youthful infatuation and has been widely covered over the decades.
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C.
Just Once
"Just Once" is a soulful ballad popularized by James Ingram that became one of producer Quincy Jones's signature hits in the early 1980s.
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D.
"So What the Fuss"
"So What the Fuss" is a song by Stevie Wonder, released in 2005 as a funk-infused single from his album "A Time to Love."
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E.
“This One’s for You”
“This One’s for You” is a pop ballad best known as a Barry Manilow song from the mid-1970s, reflecting themes of love, dedication, and heartfelt tribute.
- 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: "Just Because" Target entity description: "Just Because" is a soulful R&B ballad by American singer Anita Baker, showcasing her rich vocals and emotive, jazz-inflected style.
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A.
Just Don't
"Just Don't" is a song by American musician Raphael Saadiq from his retro-soul album "Stone Rollin'."
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B.
"Only Sixteen"
"Only Sixteen" is a popular 1959 teen ballad originally recorded by Sam Cooke that reflects youthful infatuation and has been widely covered over the decades.
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C.
Just Once
"Just Once" is a soulful ballad popularized by James Ingram that became one of producer Quincy Jones's signature hits in the early 1980s.
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D.
"So What the Fuss"
"So What the Fuss" is a song by Stevie Wonder, released in 2005 as a funk-infused single from his album "A Time to Love."
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E.
“This One’s for You”
“This One’s for You” is a pop ballad best known as a Barry Manilow song from the mid-1970s, reflecting themes of love, dedication, and heartfelt tribute.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| albumArtist | Anita Baker ⓘ |
| artist | Anita Baker ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Michael J. Powell ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
Billboard Hot 100 entry
ⓘ
Billboard R&B chart hit ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distribution | major label release ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
quiet storm ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| hasBSide | Good Enough ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
background vocals
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum |
Giving You the Best That I Got
ⓘ
linked to:
"Giving You the Best That I Got"
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| labelImprint | Elektra ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | about 5 minutes ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
commitment in relationships
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enduring love ⓘ |
| musicalEra | late 1980s R&B ⓘ |
| notableFor |
emotive lyrical delivery
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jazz-influenced arrangement ⓘ rich vocal performance by Anita Baker ⓘ |
| originalMedium | studio recording ⓘ |
| partOf | Anita Baker discography ⓘ |
| performer | Anita Baker ⓘ |
| producer | Michael J. Powell ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Anita Baker ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Elektra Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| singleReleaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| songType | ballad ⓘ |
| tempo | slow ⓘ |
| vocalRangeFeature | alto lead vocals ⓘ |
| vocalStyle |
jazz-inflected
ⓘ
soulful ⓘ |
| writer |
Anita Baker
ⓘ
Garry Glenn ⓘ Michael O’Hara ⓘ |
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: "Just Because" Description of subject: "Just Because" is a soulful R&B ballad by American singer Anita Baker, showcasing her rich vocals and emotive, jazz-inflected style.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: "Just Because"
linked to: "Just Because"
subject linked to:
album "Giving You the Best That I Got"
linked to: "Just Because"