I Want It That Way
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"I Want It That Way" is a 1999 pop ballad by the Backstreet Boys that became one of their signature hits and a defining song of late-1990s boy band pop.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Want It That Way canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4810315 — 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: I Want It That Way Context triple: [Backstreet Boys, notableWork, I Want It That Way]
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A.
Bye Bye Bye
"Bye Bye Bye" is a 2000 pop song by American boy band *NSYNC, widely recognized as one of their signature hits and a defining track of late-1990s and early-2000s teen pop.
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B.
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" is a power ballad by American rock band Aerosmith, best known as the theme song for the 1998 film "Armageddon" and one of the band's biggest commercial hits.
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C.
That's the Way Love Goes
"That's the Way Love Goes" is a 1993 Grammy-winning R&B single by Janet Jackson, known for its smooth, laid-back groove and influential role in shaping 1990s pop and R&B music.
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D.
I Want It All
"I Want It All" is a 1999 hip hop album by West Coast rapper and producer Warren G that blends smooth G-funk production with collaborations from prominent rap artists.
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E.
All I Want Is You
"All I Want Is You" is a U2 rock ballad known for its sweeping orchestration and emotional closing to their late-1980s era.
- 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: I Want It That Way Target entity description: "I Want It That Way" is a 1999 pop ballad by the Backstreet Boys that became one of their signature hits and a defining song of late-1990s boy band pop.
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A.
Bye Bye Bye
"Bye Bye Bye" is a 2000 pop song by American boy band *NSYNC, widely recognized as one of their signature hits and a defining track of late-1990s and early-2000s teen pop.
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B.
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" is a power ballad by American rock band Aerosmith, best known as the theme song for the 1998 film "Armageddon" and one of the band's biggest commercial hits.
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C.
That's the Way Love Goes
"That's the Way Love Goes" is a 1993 Grammy-winning R&B single by Janet Jackson, known for its smooth, laid-back groove and influential role in shaping 1990s pop and R&B music.
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D.
I Want It All
"I Want It All" is a 1999 hip hop album by West Coast rapper and producer Warren G that blends smooth G-funk production with collaborations from prominent rap artists.
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E.
All I Want Is You
"All I Want Is You" is a U2 rock ballad known for its sweeping orchestration and emotional closing to their late-1980s era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pop ballad
ⓘ
single ⓘ song ⓘ |
| album | Millennium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Backstreet Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certificationAustralia | Platinum ⓘ |
| certificationCanada | Platinum ⓘ |
| certificationUK | Platinum ⓘ |
| certificationUS | Platinum ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustralianARIAChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanadianSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionEuropeanHot100 | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 6 ⓘ |
| chronologyNextTitle | Larger Than Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyNextYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| chronologyPreviousTitle | All I Have to Give NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyPreviousYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| describedAs | defining song of late-1990s boy band pop ⓘ |
| format |
CD single
ⓘ
cassette single ⓘ digital download ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
pop ballad ⓘ |
| hasChorusLyric | I want it that way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | I Want It That Way music video ⓘ |
| includedInList | Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Backstreet Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label | Jive Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadSingleFrom | Millennium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 3:33 ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Wayne Isham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoLocation | Los Angeles International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Grammy Award for Record of the Year
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grammy Award for Song of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Millennium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Backstreet Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Kristian Lundin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Max Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Zomba Music Publishers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1998 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1999-04-12 ⓘ |
| releaseType | lead single ⓘ |
| tempo | slow-to-mid tempo ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | boy band harmonies ⓘ |
| writer |
Andreas Carlsson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Max Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: I Want It That Way Description of subject: "I Want It That Way" is a 1999 pop ballad by the Backstreet Boys that became one of their signature hits and a defining song of late-1990s boy band pop.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.