My Guy
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"My Guy" is a 1964 Motown soul hit, sung by Mary Wells and written by Smokey Robinson, that became one of the label’s signature songs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| My Guy canonical | 3 |
| My Guy album | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4366206 — 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: My Guy Context triple: [Smokey Robinson, notableSongWrittenForOthers, My Guy]
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A.
The Perfect Guy
The Perfect Guy is a 2015 psychological thriller film about a woman whose seemingly ideal new boyfriend becomes dangerously obsessive and violent.
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B.
Song for Guy
"Song for Guy" is an instrumental piano piece by Elton John, known for its reflective, melancholic mood and dedicated to a young messenger who died in a motorcycle accident.
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C.
Girlfriend
"Girlfriend" is a 2002 pop and R&B single by American boy band *NSYNC, known for its catchy hook and remix featuring rapper Nelly.
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D.
Girlfriend
"Girlfriend" is a pop single by Rebecca Black that continues her internet-born music career following the viral success of "Friday."
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E.
A Wonderful Guy
"A Wonderful Guy" is a popular show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, known for its upbeat expression of romantic joy.
- 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: My Guy Target entity description: "My Guy" is a 1964 Motown soul hit, sung by Mary Wells and written by Smokey Robinson, that became one of the label’s signature songs.
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A.
The Perfect Guy
The Perfect Guy is a 2015 psychological thriller film about a woman whose seemingly ideal new boyfriend becomes dangerously obsessive and violent.
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B.
Song for Guy
"Song for Guy" is an instrumental piano piece by Elton John, known for its reflective, melancholic mood and dedicated to a young messenger who died in a motorcycle accident.
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C.
Girlfriend
"Girlfriend" is a 2002 pop and R&B single by American boy band *NSYNC, known for its catchy hook and remix featuring rapper Nelly.
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D.
Girlfriend
"Girlfriend" is a pop single by Rebecca Black that continues her internet-born music career following the viral success of "Friday."
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E.
A Wonderful Guy
"A Wonderful Guy" is a popular show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, known for its upbeat expression of romantic joy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| chartPeakCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 1 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
Motown
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasBside | Oh Little Boy (What Did You Do to Me) ⓘ |
| hasMusicGenre |
R&B
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| hasNotableCoverVersionBy |
Aretha Franklin
ⓘ
Petula Clark ⓘ Sister Sledge ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf |
Mary Wells
ⓘ
Motown Records ⓘ
linked to:
Motown
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 2:50 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Mary Wells’s best-known song
ⓘ
being one of Motown’s early signature hits ⓘ |
| partOfCatalog | Motown singles discography ⓘ |
| performer | Mary Wells ⓘ |
| producer | Smokey Robinson ⓘ |
| recordedInCity | Detroit ⓘ |
| recordedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| recordedInState | Michigan ⓘ |
| recordedInStudio |
Hitsville U.S.A. studio A
ⓘ
linked to:
Hitsville U.S.A.
|
| recordLabel | Motown ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| songwriter | Smokey Robinson ⓘ |
| vocalist | Mary Wells ⓘ |
| writer | Smokey Robinson ⓘ |
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: My Guy Description of subject: "My Guy" is a 1964 Motown soul hit, sung by Mary Wells and written by Smokey Robinson, that became one of the label’s signature songs.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.