Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers
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"Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers is a soulful 1971 R&B ballad renowned for its melancholic lyrics and minimalist arrangement, widely regarded as one of his signature songs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers canonical | 1 |
| song "Ain't No Sunshine" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1698444 — 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: Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers Context triple: [Notting Hill, featuresSong, Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers]
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A.
If I Ain't Got You
"If I Ain't Got You" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys, celebrated for its emotive vocals, piano-driven melody, and enduring popularity as one of her signature songs.
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B.
If You Think You’re Lonely Now
"If You Think You’re Lonely Now" is a 1981 R&B/soul ballad by Bobby Womack, renowned for its emotive vocals and enduring influence on later artists and samples.
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C.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a classic soul song, most famously recorded by Marvin Gaye, that became one of Motown's signature hits and a defining track of 1960s American R&B.
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D.
Woke Up This Morning (My Baby’s Gone)
"Woke Up This Morning (My Baby’s Gone)" is a blues song best known from B.B. King’s classic live performances, including his landmark album "Live at the Regal."
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E.
W. C. Handy’s “Saint Louis Blues”
W. C. Handy’s “Saint Louis Blues” is a landmark early 20th-century blues composition that helped popularize the genre and became a jazz and pop standard recorded by countless artists.
- 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: Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers Target entity description: "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers is a soulful 1971 R&B ballad renowned for its melancholic lyrics and minimalist arrangement, widely regarded as one of his signature songs.
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A.
If I Ain't Got You
"If I Ain't Got You" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys, celebrated for its emotive vocals, piano-driven melody, and enduring popularity as one of her signature songs.
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B.
If You Think You’re Lonely Now
"If You Think You’re Lonely Now" is a 1981 R&B/soul ballad by Bobby Womack, renowned for its emotive vocals and enduring influence on later artists and samples.
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C.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a classic soul song, most famously recorded by Marvin Gaye, that became one of Motown's signature hits and a defining track of 1960s American R&B.
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D.
Woke Up This Morning (My Baby’s Gone)
"Woke Up This Morning (My Baby’s Gone)" is a blues song best known from B.B. King’s classic live performances, including his landmark album "Live at the Regal."
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E.
W. C. Handy’s “Saint Louis Blues”
W. C. Handy’s “Saint Louis Blues” is a landmark early 20th-century blues composition that helped popularize the genre and became a jazz and pop standard recorded by countless artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers Description of subject: "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers is a soulful 1971 R&B ballad renowned for its melancholic lyrics and minimalist arrangement, widely regarded as one of his signature songs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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