Used to Be Bad
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"Used to Be Bad" is a blues-influenced rock song by Paul McCartney and Steve Miller, featured on McCartney's 1997 album "Flaming Pie."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Used to Be Bad canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2117082 — 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: Used to Be Bad Context triple: [Flaming Pie, hasPart, Used to Be Bad]
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A.
It's Bad for Ya
"It's Bad for Ya" is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, known for its sharp social commentary and being his final HBO performance before his death.
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B.
Bad (album)
Bad is Michael Jackson’s 1987 studio album that continued his pop dominance with a harder-edged sound and multiple chart-topping singles.
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C.
Rather Be
"Rather Be" is a 2014 hit single by British electronic group Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne, known for its blend of classical-inspired strings with dance-pop production.
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D.
You Give Love a Bad Name
"You Give Love a Bad Name" is a 1986 hard rock anthem by Bon Jovi that became one of the band's signature hits and a defining song of the glam metal era.
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E.
Good Girl Gone Bad
Good Girl Gone Bad is Rihanna's critically acclaimed 2007 pop and R&B album that marked her transition to a more edgy, mature image and 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: Used to Be Bad Target entity description: "Used to Be Bad" is a blues-influenced rock song by Paul McCartney and Steve Miller, featured on McCartney's 1997 album "Flaming Pie."
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A.
It's Bad for Ya
"It's Bad for Ya" is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, known for its sharp social commentary and being his final HBO performance before his death.
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B.
Bad (album)
Bad is Michael Jackson’s 1987 studio album that continued his pop dominance with a harder-edged sound and multiple chart-topping singles.
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C.
Rather Be
"Rather Be" is a 2014 hit single by British electronic group Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne, known for its blend of classical-inspired strings with dance-pop production.
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D.
You Give Love a Bad Name
"You Give Love a Bad Name" is a 1986 hard rock anthem by Bon Jovi that became one of the band's signature hits and a defining song of the glam metal era.
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E.
Good Girl Gone Bad
Good Girl Gone Bad is Rihanna's critically acclaimed 2007 pop and R&B album that marked her transition to a more edgy, mature image and sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| album | Flaming Pie ⓘ |
| composer |
Paul McCartney
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Steve Miller ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuredOn | Flaming Pie ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
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rock ⓘ |
| hasCollaborator |
Paul McCartney
ⓘ
Steve Miller ⓘ |
| hasMusicalInfluence |
blues
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ |
| includedIn | Paul McCartney discography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Paul McCartney
ⓘ
Steve Miller ⓘ |
| partOf | Flaming Pie ⓘ |
| performer |
Paul McCartney
ⓘ
Steve Miller ⓘ |
| performerInstrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| producer |
Jeff Lynne
ⓘ
Paul McCartney ⓘ |
| recordingArtist |
Paul McCartney
ⓘ
Steve Miller ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
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Parlophone ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| vocalist |
Paul McCartney
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Steve Miller ⓘ |
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: Used to Be Bad Description of subject: "Used to Be Bad" is a blues-influenced rock song by Paul McCartney and Steve Miller, featured on McCartney's 1997 album "Flaming Pie."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.