When Doves Cry
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"When Doves Cry" is a 1984 hit single by Prince that became one of his signature songs, noted for its innovative production, lack of bass line, and central role in the film and album "Purple Rain."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| When Doves Cry canonical | 7 |
| When Doves Cry (music video) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010897 — 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: When Doves Cry Context triple: [Prince, notableSong, When Doves Cry]
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A.
Sweet Child o' Mine
"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a 1987 power ballad by Guns N' Roses, widely recognized as one of the most iconic rock songs of all time.
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B.
So Many Tears
"So Many Tears" is a reflective and emotionally charged song by Tupac Shakur that explores themes of pain, loss, and inner turmoil.
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C.
Take Back
"Take Back" is a song featured on Green Day's 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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D.
Every Which Way but Loose
Every Which Way but Loose is a 1978 American action-comedy film starring Clint Eastwood as a trucker and bare-knuckle brawler who travels with his pet orangutan.
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E.
In Too Deep
In Too Deep is a 1999 crime thriller film about an undercover cop infiltrating a powerful drug syndicate, in which Michael Beach plays a supporting role.
- 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: When Doves Cry Target entity description: "When Doves Cry" is a 1984 hit single by Prince that became one of his signature songs, noted for its innovative production, lack of bass line, and central role in the film and album "Purple Rain."
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A.
Sweet Child o' Mine
"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a 1987 power ballad by Guns N' Roses, widely recognized as one of the most iconic rock songs of all time.
-
B.
So Many Tears
"So Many Tears" is a reflective and emotionally charged song by Tupac Shakur that explores themes of pain, loss, and inner turmoil.
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C.
Take Back
"Take Back" is a song featured on Green Day's 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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D.
Every Which Way but Loose
Every Which Way but Loose is a 1978 American action-comedy film starring Clint Eastwood as a trucker and bare-knuckle brawler who travels with his pet orangutan.
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E.
In Too Deep
In Too Deep is a 1999 crime thriller film about an undercover cop infiltrating a powerful drug syndicate, in which Michael Beach plays a supporting role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: When Doves Cry Description of subject: "When Doves Cry" is a 1984 hit single by Prince that became one of his signature songs, noted for its innovative production, lack of bass line, and central role in the film and album "Purple Rain."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
When Doves Cry (music video)
Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for Purple Rain
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When Doves Cry
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