The Hardest Thing
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"The Hardest Thing" is a popular late-1990s pop ballad by American boy band 98 Degrees, known for its emotional lyrics about the pain of ending a relationship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Hardest Thing canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5577724 — 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 Hardest Thing Context triple: [98 Degrees, notableWork, The Hardest Thing]
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A.
The Hardest Moment
"The Hardest Moment" is a song featured on the album "Evolver" by the South Korean boy band U-KISS.
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B.
Harder Than The Rest
Harder Than The Rest is an album by the German reggae band Culture, showcasing their roots reggae style and socially conscious themes.
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C.
Harder Than Ever
Harder Than Ever is a 2018 breakout mixtape by Atlanta rapper Lil Baby that helped establish him as a major figure in modern trap music.
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D.
The Hard Way
"The Hard Way" is a 1992 country music album by American singer-songwriter Clint Black that continued his early commercial success with a polished, contemporary sound.
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E.
The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a 1991 action-comedy film in which James Woods plays a tough New York cop reluctantly partnered with a pampered Hollywood actor, played by Michael J. Fox, who wants to learn how to be a real detective.
- 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 Hardest Thing Target entity description: "The Hardest Thing" is a popular late-1990s pop ballad by American boy band 98 Degrees, known for its emotional lyrics about the pain of ending a relationship.
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A.
The Hardest Moment
"The Hardest Moment" is a song featured on the album "Evolver" by the South Korean boy band U-KISS.
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B.
Harder Than The Rest
Harder Than The Rest is an album by the German reggae band Culture, showcasing their roots reggae style and socially conscious themes.
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C.
Harder Than Ever
Harder Than Ever is a 2018 breakout mixtape by Atlanta rapper Lil Baby that helped establish him as a major figure in modern trap music.
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D.
The Hard Way
"The Hard Way" is a 1992 country music album by American singer-songwriter Clint Black that continued his early commercial success with a polished, contemporary sound.
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E.
The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a 1991 action-comedy film in which James Woods plays a tough New York cop reluctantly partnered with a pampered Hollywood actor, played by Michael J. Fox, who wants to learn how to be a real detective.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | 98 Degrees ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| followsInPerformerCareer | early hits of 98 Degrees ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
pop ballad ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
CD single
ⓘ
digital audio track ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | The Hardest Thing music video ⓘ |
| hasPerformer |
Drew Lachey
ⓘ
Jeff Timmons ⓘ Justin Jeffre ⓘ Nick Lachey ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | mainstream pop audience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricSubject | pain of ending a relationship ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
emotional pain
ⓘ
ending a relationship ⓘ heartbreak ⓘ |
| medium | audio recording ⓘ |
| musicVideoFeatures | 98 Degrees ⓘ |
| musicVideoLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commercial success
ⓘ
emotional lyrics ⓘ |
| partOf | 98 Degrees discography ⓘ |
| performer | 98 Degrees ⓘ |
| performerMemberOf | 98 Degrees ⓘ |
| performerType | American boy band ⓘ |
| recordingArtistNationality | American ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | late 1990s ⓘ |
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 Hardest Thing Description of subject: "The Hardest Thing" is a popular late-1990s pop ballad by American boy band 98 Degrees, known for its emotional lyrics about the pain of ending a relationship.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.