I Can Do Bad All by Myself
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I Can Do Bad All by Myself is a 2009 Tyler Perry drama-comedy film centered on a hard-living nightclub singer whose life changes when she must care for her troubled niece and nephews.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I Can Do Bad All by Myself canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13258270 — 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 Can Do Bad All by Myself Context triple: [Brian J. White, notableWork, I Can Do Bad All by Myself]
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A.
I Can Do Better Than That
"I Can Do Better Than That" is a character-driven solo number from Jason Robert Brown’s musical *The Last Five Years*, in which Cathy reflects on past relationships and her hopes for a better future.
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B.
Bad to Me
"Bad to Me" is a 1963 pop song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney that became a hit single for Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
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C.
I'm Bad
"I'm Bad" is a 1987 hardcore hip hop single by LL Cool J, known for its aggressive braggadocio lyrics and status as one of his signature early hits.
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D.
I Don't Want to Do Wrong
"I Don't Want to Do Wrong" is a soul single by Gladys Knight & the Pips, released in the early 1970s on Motown.
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E.
It's Bad for Me
"It's Bad for Me" is a popular song by composer Cole Porter, notably recorded by Ella Fitzgerald on her acclaimed Cole Porter songbook album.
- 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 Can Do Bad All by Myself Target entity description: I Can Do Bad All by Myself is a 2009 Tyler Perry drama-comedy film centered on a hard-living nightclub singer whose life changes when she must care for her troubled niece and nephews.
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A.
I Can Do Better Than That
"I Can Do Better Than That" is a character-driven solo number from Jason Robert Brown’s musical *The Last Five Years*, in which Cathy reflects on past relationships and her hopes for a better future.
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B.
Bad to Me
"Bad to Me" is a 1963 pop song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney that became a hit single for Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.
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C.
I'm Bad
"I'm Bad" is a 1987 hardcore hip hop single by LL Cool J, known for its aggressive braggadocio lyrics and status as one of his signature early hits.
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D.
I Don't Want to Do Wrong
"I Don't Want to Do Wrong" is a soul single by Gladys Knight & the Pips, released in the early 1970s on Motown.
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E.
It's Bad for Me
"It's Bad for Me" is a popular song by composer Cole Porter, notably recorded by Ella Fitzgerald on her acclaimed Cole Porter songbook album.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | I Can Do Bad All by Myself (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Tyler Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy | Tyler Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Alexander Gruszynski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Tyler Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Lionsgate ⓘ |
| editedBy | Maysie Hoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Madea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresGenreElement |
melodrama
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music performance ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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comedy-drama film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasTagline | She knows how to do bad. Now she’ll learn how to do good. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
faith
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family ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | April NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPortrayedBy | Taraji P. Henson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Aaron Zigman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Madea film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A hard-living nightclub singer must care for her troubled niece and nephews, leading her to reevaluate her life. ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Tyler Perry Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2009-09-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 113 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Tyler Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Atlanta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Adam Rodriguez
NERFINISHED
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Brian J. White NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Siglar NERFINISHED ⓘ Gladys Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ Hope Olaide Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Kwesi Boakye NERFINISHED ⓘ Marvin Winans NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary J. Blige NERFINISHED ⓘ Taraji P. Henson NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyler Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Tyler Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Can Do Bad All by Myself Description of subject: I Can Do Bad All by Myself is a 2009 Tyler Perry drama-comedy film centered on a hard-living nightclub singer whose life changes when she must care for her troubled niece and nephews.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.