The Difficult Kind
E1045305
"The Difficult Kind" is a blues-inflected rock ballad by Sheryl Crow, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and powerful vocal performance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Difficult Kind canonical | 6 |
| Difficult Kind | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13525127 — 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: The Difficult Kind Context triple: [Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park, includesSong, The Difficult Kind]
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A.
The Tough Ones
The Tough Ones is a 1970s Italian poliziottesco crime-action film known for its gritty violence, tough cop antihero, and cult status among Eurocrime cinema fans.
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B.
The Best Kind of Different
"The Best Kind of Different" is a memoir by Shonda Schilling that chronicles her family’s experiences raising a son with Asperger’s syndrome and advocates for greater understanding of autism.
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C.
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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D.
The Jealous Kind
"The Jealous Kind" is a song featured on the album *Seven Year Itch* by Etta James.
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E.
The Maddening
The Maddening is a 1995 psychological thriller film starring Burt Reynolds as a deranged patriarch who imprisons a young woman and her family.
- 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: The Difficult Kind Target entity description: "The Difficult Kind" is a blues-inflected rock ballad by Sheryl Crow, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and powerful vocal performance.
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A.
The Tough Ones
The Tough Ones is a 1970s Italian poliziottesco crime-action film known for its gritty violence, tough cop antihero, and cult status among Eurocrime cinema fans.
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B.
The Best Kind of Different
"The Best Kind of Different" is a memoir by Shonda Schilling that chronicles her family’s experiences raising a son with Asperger’s syndrome and advocates for greater understanding of autism.
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C.
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.
-
D.
The Jealous Kind
"The Jealous Kind" is a song featured on the album *Seven Year Itch* by Etta James.
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E.
The Maddening
The Maddening is a 1995 psychological thriller film starring Burt Reynolds as a deranged patriarch who imprisons a young woman and her family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | The Globe Sessions ⓘ |
| artist | Sheryl Crow ⓘ |
| composer | Sheryl Crow ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
blues rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ rock ballad ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasQuality | emotionally charged lyrics ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
difficult relationships
ⓘ
emotional pain ⓘ romantic turmoil ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Sheryl Crow ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | blues-inflected rock ⓘ |
| partOfTourSetlist | Sheryl Crow live performances ⓘ |
| performer | Sheryl Crow ⓘ |
| recordLabel | A&M Records ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | powerful vocal performance ⓘ |
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: The Difficult Kind Description of subject: "The Difficult Kind" is a blues-inflected rock ballad by Sheryl Crow, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and powerful vocal performance.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
compilation album "Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park"
subject linked to:
greatest hits album "The Very Best of Sheryl Crow"
linked to: The Difficult Kind