Love in Vain
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"Love in Vain" is a classic blues song by Robert Johnson, renowned for its haunting lyrics and later popularized through a celebrated cover by The Rolling Stones.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Love in Vain canonical | 5 |
| Lovin' in Vain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7075881 — 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: Love in Vain Context triple: [Robert Johnson, notableWork, Love in Vain]
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A.
Love's Cruelty
Love's Cruelty is a Caroline-era tragic play by James Shirley that explores themes of passion, betrayal, and moral corruption in a courtly setting.
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B.
The Love Song
The Love Song is a Rococo-era painting by French artist Antoine Watteau, celebrated for its delicate depiction of aristocratic figures engaged in intimate, music-filled courtship.
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C.
In and Out of Love
"In and Out of Love" is a popular trance track by Dutch DJ and producer Armin van Buuren featuring vocalist Sharon den Adel, known for its melodic hooks and widespread acclaim in the electronic dance music scene.
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D.
For Love’s Sake
For Love’s Sake is a song by American country artist Dwight Yoakam, featured on his 2000 album "Tomorrow’s Sounds Today."
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E.
Songs of Love and Hate
Songs of Love and Hate is a 1971 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, noted for its stark, emotionally intense songs and poetic lyricism.
- 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: Love in Vain Target entity description: "Love in Vain" is a classic blues song by Robert Johnson, renowned for its haunting lyrics and later popularized through a celebrated cover by The Rolling Stones.
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A.
Love's Cruelty
Love's Cruelty is a Caroline-era tragic play by James Shirley that explores themes of passion, betrayal, and moral corruption in a courtly setting.
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B.
The Love Song
The Love Song is a Rococo-era painting by French artist Antoine Watteau, celebrated for its delicate depiction of aristocratic figures engaged in intimate, music-filled courtship.
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C.
In and Out of Love
"In and Out of Love" is a popular trance track by Dutch DJ and producer Armin van Buuren featuring vocalist Sharon den Adel, known for its melodic hooks and widespread acclaim in the electronic dance music scene.
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D.
For Love’s Sake
For Love’s Sake is a song by American country artist Dwight Yoakam, featured on his 2000 album "Tomorrow’s Sounds Today."
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E.
Songs of Love and Hate
Songs of Love and Hate is a 1971 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, noted for its stark, emotionally intense songs and poetic lyricism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| basedOn | Love in Vain ⓘ |
| composer | Robert Johnson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
blues rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion | Love in Vain (The Rolling Stones version) ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Robert Johnson
ⓘ
The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Let It Bleed ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Robert Johnson ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | Delta blues ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being covered by The Rolling Stones
ⓘ
haunting lyrics ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedBy | The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| performer | The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| recordedBy | The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| theme |
heartbreak
ⓘ
lost love ⓘ |
| writer | Robert Johnson ⓘ |
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: Love in Vain Description of subject: "Love in Vain" is a classic blues song by Robert Johnson, renowned for its haunting lyrics and later popularized through a celebrated cover by The Rolling Stones.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones"
subject linked to:
Love in Vain
subject linked to:
song "I Fall to Pieces"
linked to: Love in Vain