The Way It Is
E477552
"The Way It Is" is the 2005 debut studio album by American R&B singer Keyshia Cole, featuring emotionally driven songs about love, heartbreak, and personal struggle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Way It Is canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4877239 — 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: The Way It Is Context triple: [Keyshia Cole, notableWork, The Way It Is]
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A.
That’s the Way It Is
"That’s the Way It Is" is an upbeat pop song by Celine Dion, released in 1999 and known for its empowering lyrics and strong vocal performance.
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B.
How It Is
How It Is is a late experimental novel by Samuel Beckett that explores fragmented consciousness through disjointed, minimalist prose and a mud-bound narrator’s monologue.
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C.
It Is What It Is
It Is What It Is is a conceptual art project by British artist Jeremy Deller that examines the Iraq War through public dialogue and the display of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bombing.
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D.
If There Was a Way
If There Was a Way is a 1990 country music album by Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with contemporary influences and is often praised as one of his strongest releases.
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E.
Something in the Way
"Something in the Way" is a somber, minimalist song by American rock band Nirvana, known for its haunting mood and Kurt Cobain’s subdued vocal delivery.
- 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: The Way It Is Target entity description: "The Way It Is" is the 2005 debut studio album by American R&B singer Keyshia Cole, featuring emotionally driven songs about love, heartbreak, and personal struggle.
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A.
That’s the Way It Is
"That’s the Way It Is" is an upbeat pop song by Celine Dion, released in 1999 and known for its empowering lyrics and strong vocal performance.
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B.
How It Is
How It Is is a late experimental novel by Samuel Beckett that explores fragmented consciousness through disjointed, minimalist prose and a mud-bound narrator’s monologue.
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C.
It Is What It Is
It Is What It Is is a conceptual art project by British artist Jeremy Deller that examines the Iraq War through public dialogue and the display of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bombing.
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D.
If There Was a Way
If There Was a Way is a 1990 country music album by Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with contemporary influences and is often praised as one of his strongest releases.
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E.
Something in the Way
"Something in the Way" is a somber, minimalist song by American rock band Nirvana, known for its haunting mood and Kurt Cobain’s subdued vocal delivery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
debut album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Keyshia Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronology | Keyshia Cole albums ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresVocalStyle | emotionally driven vocals ⓘ |
| followedBy | Just Like You NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
CD
ⓘ
digital download ⓘ streaming release ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
(I Just Want It) To Be Over
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Down and Dirty NERFINISHED ⓘ Guess What NERFINISHED ⓘ I Changed My Mind NERFINISHED ⓘ I Should Have Cheated NERFINISHED ⓘ Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Love, I Thought You Had My Back NERFINISHED ⓘ Never NERFINISHED ⓘ Situations NERFINISHED ⓘ Superstar NERFINISHED ⓘ The Way It Is NERFINISHED ⓘ We Could Be NERFINISHED ⓘ You’ve Changed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | autobiographical ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
I Changed My Mind
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Should Have Cheated NERFINISHED ⓘ Love ⓘ |
| performer | Keyshia Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Bruce Waynne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chink Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ Dirty Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ E-Poppi NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Galan NERFINISHED ⓘ Greg Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ J.R. Rotem NERFINISHED ⓘ John Legend NERFINISHED ⓘ K1 West NERFINISHED ⓘ Kanye West ⓘ Keyshia Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Gad NERFINISHED ⓘ Troy Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
A&M Records
ⓘ
Geffen Records ⓘ Interscope Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2005-06-21 ⓘ |
| theme |
heartbreak
ⓘ
love ⓘ personal struggle ⓘ |
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: The Way It Is Description of subject: "The Way It Is" is the 2005 debut studio album by American R&B singer Keyshia Cole, featuring emotionally driven songs about love, heartbreak, and personal struggle.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.