You Be Illin'
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"You Be Illin'" is a humorous 1986 hip hop single by Run-DMC that playfully describes various socially awkward and foolish situations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| You Be Illin' canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12907506 — 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: You Be Illin' Context triple: [Walk This Way (Run-DMC and Aerosmith song), followedBySingle, You Be Illin']
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A.
Y’all Don’t Wanna
"Y’all Don’t Wanna" is a track by rapper Styles P featured on his debut studio album *A Gangster and a Gentleman*.
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B.
Foolin'
"Foolin'" is a 1983 hard rock power ballad by English band Def Leppard, released as a single from their breakthrough album "Pyromania."
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C.
You Be Killin Em
"You Be Killin Em" is a popular hip-hop single by American rapper Fabolous, known for its slick wordplay and smooth, laid-back production.
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D.
You Ain't the First
"You Ain't the First" is an acoustic, country-tinged rock song by Guns N' Roses known for its laid-back, barroom style and breakup-themed lyrics.
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E.
Achin’ to Be
"Achin’ to Be" is a punk rock song by the American band Pinhead Gunpowder, known for its melodic hooks and association with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
- 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: You Be Illin' Target entity description: "You Be Illin'" is a humorous 1986 hip hop single by Run-DMC that playfully describes various socially awkward and foolish situations.
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A.
Y’all Don’t Wanna
"Y’all Don’t Wanna" is a track by rapper Styles P featured on his debut studio album *A Gangster and a Gentleman*.
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B.
Foolin'
"Foolin'" is a 1983 hard rock power ballad by English band Def Leppard, released as a single from their breakthrough album "Pyromania."
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C.
You Be Killin Em
"You Be Killin Em" is a popular hip-hop single by American rapper Fabolous, known for its slick wordplay and smooth, laid-back production.
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D.
You Ain't the First
"You Ain't the First" is an acoustic, country-tinged rock song by Guns N' Roses known for its laid-back, barroom style and breakup-themed lyrics.
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E.
Achin’ to Be
"Achin’ to Be" is a punk rock song by the American band Pinhead Gunpowder, known for its melodic hooks and association with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Raising Hell ⓘ |
| artist |
Run-DMC
ⓘ
linked to:
Run-D.M.C.
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describes |
embarrassing situations
ⓘ
social faux pas ⓘ |
| followsSingle | Walk This Way ⓘ |
| genre |
hip hop
ⓘ
rap ⓘ |
| hasArtist |
Run-DMC
ⓘ
linked to:
Run-D.M.C.
|
| hasHumorousTheme |
foolish behavior
ⓘ
socially awkward situations ⓘ |
| hasMusicalArtistMember |
Darryl McDaniels
ⓘ
linked to:
Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels
Jason Mizell ⓘ Joseph Simmons ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Raising Hell ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicalEra | 1980s hip hop ⓘ |
| notableFor |
humorous storytelling lyrics
ⓘ
playful tone ⓘ |
| partOf |
Run-DMC discography
ⓘ
linked to:
Run-D.M.C. discography
|
| performer |
Run-DMC
ⓘ
linked to:
Run-D.M.C.
|
| producer |
Rick Rubin
ⓘ
Russell Simmons ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1986 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Profile Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| writer |
Darryl McDaniels
ⓘ
linked to:
Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels
Jason Mizell ⓘ Joseph Simmons ⓘ |
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: You Be Illin' Description of subject: "You Be Illin'" is a humorous 1986 hip hop single by Run-DMC that playfully describes various socially awkward and foolish situations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Walk This Way with Run-DMC