It's Been Awhile
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"It's Been Awhile" is a 2001 rock ballad by Staind that became the band's biggest hit and a defining song of early 2000s post-grunge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| It's Been Awhile canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22170799 — 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: It's Been Awhile Context triple: [Staind, notableWork, It's Been Awhile]
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A.
Stay Awhile
"Stay Awhile" is a 1964 pop song by Dusty Springfield, known for its lush production and Springfield’s soulful vocal performance that helped establish her as a major solo artist.
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B.
Been Away Too Long
"Been Away Too Long" is a hard-rock single by Soundgarden, known as the lead track from their 2012 comeback album "King Animal."
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C.
You’ve Been Around Too Long
"You’ve Been Around Too Long" is a short story by Jack Dann that blends speculative elements with psychological and emotional depth, typical of modern fantasy fiction.
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D.
It’s Been a Long Time
"It’s Been a Long Time" is a jazz track featured on the 1968 album "Silk & Soul" by saxophonist Sonny Rollins.
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E.
Gone So Long
"Gone So Long" is a novel by Andre Dubus III that explores the long-term emotional fallout of a violent crime through the fraught reunion of an estranged father and daughter.
- 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: It's Been Awhile Target entity description: "It's Been Awhile" is a 2001 rock ballad by Staind that became the band's biggest hit and a defining song of early 2000s post-grunge.
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A.
Stay Awhile
"Stay Awhile" is a 1964 pop song by Dusty Springfield, known for its lush production and Springfield’s soulful vocal performance that helped establish her as a major solo artist.
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B.
Been Away Too Long
"Been Away Too Long" is a hard-rock single by Soundgarden, known as the lead track from their 2012 comeback album "King Animal."
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C.
You’ve Been Around Too Long
"You’ve Been Around Too Long" is a short story by Jack Dann that blends speculative elements with psychological and emotional depth, typical of modern fantasy fiction.
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D.
It’s Been a Long Time
"It’s Been a Long Time" is a jazz track featured on the 1968 album "Silk & Soul" by saxophonist Sonny Rollins.
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E.
Gone So Long
"Gone So Long" is a novel by Andre Dubus III that explores the long-term emotional fallout of a violent crime through the fraught reunion of an estranged father and daughter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.