Goin’ Back
E306368
"Goin’ Back" is a 1966 pop song, best known in recordings by Dusty Springfield and The Byrds, that nostalgically reflects on lost innocence and the desire to return to simpler times.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goin’ Back canonical | 5 |
| Goin' Back | 2 |
| Going Back | 1 |
| Goin’ Back (The Byrds recording) | 1 |
| Goin’ Back (song by Goffin and King) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2876585 — 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: Goin’ Back Context triple: [Gerry Goffin, notableWork, Goin’ Back]
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A.
Goin’ Back to Alabama
"Goin’ Back to Alabama" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers’ 1981 country-pop album *Share Your Love*.
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B.
I’m Goin’ Down
"I'm Goin' Down" is a song by Bruce Springsteen, featured on his 1984 album *Born in the U.S.A.*.
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C.
Sing Me Back Home
Sing Me Back Home is a classic country song by Merle Haggard that poignantly tells the story of a condemned prisoner’s final request for a song before his execution.
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D.
Travelin' Man
"Travelin' Man" is a 1961 pop song by American singer Ricky Nelson that became one of his biggest hits and a classic of early rock and roll.
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E.
Walkin' Away
"Walkin' Away" is a hit country song by American singer-songwriter Clint Black, known for its traditional sound and chart success in the early 1990s.
- 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: Goin’ Back Target entity description: "Goin’ Back" is a 1966 pop song, best known in recordings by Dusty Springfield and The Byrds, that nostalgically reflects on lost innocence and the desire to return to simpler times.
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A.
Goin’ Back to Alabama
"Goin’ Back to Alabama" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers’ 1981 country-pop album *Share Your Love*.
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B.
I’m Goin’ Down
"I'm Goin' Down" is a song by Bruce Springsteen, featured on his 1984 album *Born in the U.S.A.*.
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C.
Sing Me Back Home
Sing Me Back Home is a classic country song by Merle Haggard that poignantly tells the story of a condemned prisoner’s final request for a song before his execution.
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D.
Travelin' Man
"Travelin' Man" is a 1961 pop song by American singer Ricky Nelson that became one of his biggest hits and a classic of early rock and roll.
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E.
Walkin' Away
"Walkin' Away" is a hit country song by American singer-songwriter Clint Black, known for its traditional sound and chart success in the early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer |
Carole King
ⓘ
Gerry Goffin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstReleaseYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| genre |
baroque pop
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | 1960s pop music ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme | reflection on the past ⓘ |
| hasNotableVersion |
Goin’ Back (Dusty Springfield recording)
ⓘ
Goin’ Back self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Goin’ Back (The Byrds recording)
|
| hasSubject |
growing up
ⓘ
memory ⓘ time passing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Carole King
ⓘ
Gerry Goffin ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being covered by multiple artists
ⓘ
nostalgic lyrics ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy |
Dusty Springfield
ⓘ
The Byrds ⓘ |
| originalArtist | Dusty Springfield ⓘ |
| partOf | 1960s popular music repertoire ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Carole King
ⓘ
Deacon Blue ⓘ Dusty Springfield ⓘ Freddie Mercury ⓘ Nils Lofgren ⓘ The Byrds ⓘ The Pretenders ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| theme |
desire to return to simpler times
ⓘ
lost innocence ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ |
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: Goin’ Back Description of subject: "Goin’ Back" is a 1966 pop song, best known in recordings by Dusty Springfield and The Byrds, that nostalgically reflects on lost innocence and the desire to return to simpler times.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Going Back
this entity surface form:
Goin' Back
this entity surface form:
Goin’ Back (The Byrds recording)
this entity surface form:
Goin’ Back (song by Goffin and King)
subject surface form:
Writer
this entity surface form:
Goin' Back