Something’s Got a Hold on Me
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"Something’s Got a Hold on Me" is a 1962 soul and R&B song by Etta James, renowned for its powerful vocals and enduring influence on popular music.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Something's Got a Hold on Me | 2 |
| Something’s Got a Hold on Me canonical | 2 |
| "Something's Got a Hold on Me" by Etta James (in original song arrangement) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2307050 — 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: Something’s Got a Hold on Me Context triple: [Etta James, notableWork, Something’s Got a Hold on Me]
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A.
You Got Me
"You Got Me" is a Grammy-winning neo-soul/hip-hop song by The Roots featuring Erykah Badu, widely recognized for its innovative blend of live instrumentation and introspective lyricism.
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B.
Ain’t Got You
"Ain’t Got You" is the opening track of Bruce Springsteen’s 1987 album *Tunnel of Love*, a short, bluesy song reflecting on material success and emotional emptiness.
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C.
Something’s Gotta Give
"Something’s Gotta Give" is a 2003 romantic comedy film starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton about an aging music executive who unexpectedly falls for his young girlfriend’s playwright mother.
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D.
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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E.
Just Can't Get Enough
"Just Can't Get Enough" is a pop song performed by Fergie, best known as a member of The Black Eyed Peas, featuring her distinctive vocals over an electro-influenced production.
- 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: Something’s Got a Hold on Me Target entity description: "Something’s Got a Hold on Me" is a 1962 soul and R&B song by Etta James, renowned for its powerful vocals and enduring influence on popular music.
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A.
You Got Me
"You Got Me" is a Grammy-winning neo-soul/hip-hop song by The Roots featuring Erykah Badu, widely recognized for its innovative blend of live instrumentation and introspective lyricism.
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B.
Ain’t Got You
"Ain’t Got You" is the opening track of Bruce Springsteen’s 1987 album *Tunnel of Love*, a short, bluesy song reflecting on material success and emotional emptiness.
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C.
Something’s Gotta Give
"Something’s Gotta Give" is a 2003 romantic comedy film starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton about an aging music executive who unexpectedly falls for his young girlfriend’s playwright mother.
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D.
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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E.
Just Can't Get Enough
"Just Can't Get Enough" is a pop song performed by Fergie, best known as a member of The Black Eyed Peas, featuring her distinctive vocals over an electro-influenced production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer |
Etta James
ⓘ
Leroy Kirkland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
rhythm and blues
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasChorusLyric | “Oh, sometimes I get a good feeling” ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
backing vocals
ⓘ
orchestral arrangement ⓘ rhythm section ⓘ |
| hasTempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
| hasType |
R&B song
ⓘ
soul song ⓘ |
| influencedWork |
"Good Feeling"
ⓘ
surface form:
Good Feeling
Levels ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Etta James
ⓘ
Pearl Woods ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on popular music
ⓘ
use of gospel-influenced vocals ⓘ |
| partOf |
Etta James
ⓘ
surface form:
Etta James discography
|
| performer |
Etta James
ⓘ
Etta James and the Riley Hampton Orchestra ⓘ |
| producer | Ralph Bass ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1962 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Argo Records ⓘ |
| sampledIn |
"Good Feeling"
ⓘ
surface form:
Good Feeling
Levels ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | powerful vocals ⓘ |
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: Something’s Got a Hold on Me Description of subject: "Something’s Got a Hold on Me" is a 1962 soul and R&B song by Etta James, renowned for its powerful vocals and enduring influence on popular music.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"Good Feeling" (instrumental) by Flo Rida
this entity surface form:
"Something's Got a Hold on Me" by Etta James (in original song arrangement)
subject surface form:
Jamesetta Hawkins
this entity surface form:
Something's Got a Hold on Me
this entity surface form:
Something's Got a Hold on Me