I Wake Up Crying
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"I Wake Up Crying" is an early 1960s pop song performed by Del Shannon, showcasing his emotional vocal style and dramatic, melancholic lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Wake Up Crying canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6480049 — 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: I Wake Up Crying Context triple: [Runaway with Del Shannon, hasTrack, I Wake Up Crying]
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A.
Who's Crying Now
"Who's Crying Now" is a popular rock ballad by the American band Journey, featured on their 1981 album "Escape" and known for its emotive vocals and memorable guitar solo.
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B.
Cry a While
"Cry a While" is a country song recorded by the American duo Love and Theft.
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C.
I Cry Alone
"I Cry Alone" is a song written by composer Michael Masser, known for its emotive, soulful ballad style.
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D.
Cry Me Out
"Cry Me Out" is a soulful pop ballad by English singer Pixie Lott, released as a single from her debut album "Turn It Up."
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E.
I Awake
"I Awake" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden from their 1989 album "Louder Than Love."
- 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: I Wake Up Crying Target entity description: "I Wake Up Crying" is an early 1960s pop song performed by Del Shannon, showcasing his emotional vocal style and dramatic, melancholic lyrics.
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A.
Who's Crying Now
"Who's Crying Now" is a popular rock ballad by the American band Journey, featured on their 1981 album "Escape" and known for its emotive vocals and memorable guitar solo.
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B.
Cry a While
"Cry a While" is a country song recorded by the American duo Love and Theft.
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C.
I Cry Alone
"I Cry Alone" is a song written by composer Michael Masser, known for its emotive, soulful ballad style.
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D.
Cry Me Out
"Cry Me Out" is a soulful pop ballad by English singer Pixie Lott, released as a single from her debut album "Turn It Up."
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E.
I Awake
"I Awake" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden from their 1989 album "Louder Than Love."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Del Shannon discography ⓘ |
| composer | Del Shannon ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
rock and roll ⓘ |
| hasMood |
emotional
ⓘ
sad ⓘ |
| hasMusicalEra | early 1960s pop ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
heartbreak
ⓘ
lost love ⓘ sadness ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Del Shannon ⓘ |
| lyricMood |
dramatic
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dramatic vocal delivery
ⓘ
emotional lyrics ⓘ |
| performedBy | Del Shannon ⓘ |
| performer | Del Shannon ⓘ |
| vocalRangeFeature | falsetto passages ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | emotional ⓘ |
| vocalType | male vocal ⓘ |
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: I Wake Up Crying Description of subject: "I Wake Up Crying" is an early 1960s pop song performed by Del Shannon, showcasing his emotional vocal style and dramatic, melancholic lyrics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.