That's What Friends Are For
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"That's What Friends Are For" is a popular ballad best known for its 1985 charity recording by Dionne Warwick and friends, which became a major hit and an anthem of friendship and support.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1230319 — 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: That's What Friends Are For Context triple: [Burt Bacharach, wroteSong, That's What Friends Are For]
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A.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
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B.
You’ve Got a Friend
"You’ve Got a Friend" is a classic 1971 pop ballad written by Carole King that became an enduring anthem of comfort and support, popularized by both King and James Taylor.
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C.
Thank You for Being a Friend
"Thank You for Being a Friend" is a pop song written and originally recorded by Andrew Gold, best known as the theme song for the television sitcom *The Golden Girls*.
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D.
You Were a Good Friend
"You Were a Good Friend" is a song featured on the 1976 self-titled debut album by the American rock band Gideon.
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E.
Share Your Love
"Share Your Love" is a 1981 country-pop studio album by Kenny Rogers that features several hit singles and showcases his smooth crossover sound.
- 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: That's What Friends Are For Target entity description: "That's What Friends Are For" is a popular ballad best known for its 1985 charity recording by Dionne Warwick and friends, which became a major hit and an anthem of friendship and support.
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A.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
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B.
You’ve Got a Friend
"You’ve Got a Friend" is a classic 1971 pop ballad written by Carole King that became an enduring anthem of comfort and support, popularized by both King and James Taylor.
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C.
Thank You for Being a Friend
"Thank You for Being a Friend" is a pop song written and originally recorded by Andrew Gold, best known as the theme song for the television sitcom *The Golden Girls*.
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D.
You Were a Good Friend
"You Were a Good Friend" is a song featured on the 1976 self-titled debut album by the American rock band Gideon.
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E.
Share Your Love
"Share Your Love" is a 1981 country-pop studio album by Kenny Rogers that features several hit singles and showcases his smooth crossover sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: That's What Friends Are For Description of subject: "That's What Friends Are For" is a popular ballad best known for its 1985 charity recording by Dionne Warwick and friends, which became a major hit and an anthem of friendship and support.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
That’s What Friends Are For
this entity surface form:
That’s What Friends Are For
this entity surface form:
That's What Friends Are For (Dionne Warwick & Friends version)
this entity surface form:
That's What Friends Are For (Dionne & Friends version)
subject surface form:
Dionne Warwick
this entity surface form:
That’s What Friends Are For