It Wasn't Me
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"It Wasn't Me" is a 2000 reggae fusion hit single by Shaggy featuring RikRok, known for its catchy chorus and humorous narrative about denying infidelity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| “It Wasn’t Me” | 2 |
| It Wasn't Me canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6377150 — 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: It Wasn't Me Context triple: [Shaggy, notableWork, It Wasn't Me]
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A.
That Wasn’t Me
"That Wasn’t Me" is a soulful, gospel-tinged folk-rock song by Brandi Carlile that reflects on addiction, redemption, and personal transformation.
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B.
That Ain’t Me
"That Ain’t Me" is a track by Lil Wayne featured on his album *I Am Not a Human Being*.
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C.
They Didn't Believe Me
"They Didn't Believe Me" is a popular 1914 American song with music by Jerome Kern that became a standard in the early 20th-century repertoire.
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D.
I Was the One
"I Was the One" is a 1956 rock and roll ballad recorded by Elvis Presley, known as the B-side to his breakthrough hit "Heartbreak Hotel."
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E.
I Was There
"I Was There" is the memoir of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, offering an insider’s account of high-level Allied strategy and decision-making during World War II.
- 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: It Wasn't Me Target entity description: "It Wasn't Me" is a 2000 reggae fusion hit single by Shaggy featuring RikRok, known for its catchy chorus and humorous narrative about denying infidelity.
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A.
That Wasn’t Me
"That Wasn’t Me" is a soulful, gospel-tinged folk-rock song by Brandi Carlile that reflects on addiction, redemption, and personal transformation.
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B.
That Ain’t Me
"That Ain’t Me" is a track by Lil Wayne featured on his album *I Am Not a Human Being*.
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C.
They Didn't Believe Me
"They Didn't Believe Me" is a popular 1914 American song with music by Jerome Kern that became a standard in the early 20th-century repertoire.
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D.
I Was the One
"I Was the One" is a 1956 rock and roll ballad recorded by Elvis Presley, known as the B-side to his breakthrough hit "Heartbreak Hotel."
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E.
I Was There
"I Was There" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| albumArtist | Shaggy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | RikRok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certificationAustralia | Multi-Platinum ⓘ |
| certificationCanada | Platinum ⓘ |
| certificationNewZealand | Platinum ⓘ |
| certificationUK | Platinum ⓘ |
| certificationUS | Platinum ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustralianSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionEuropeanHot100 | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionGermanSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionIrishSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNewZealandSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 1 ⓘ |
| chorusCharacteristic | catchy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Jamaica ⓘ |
| featuredArtist | RikRok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsSingle | Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dancehall
ⓘ
reggae fusion ⓘ |
| guestVocalist | RikRok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCallAndResponseStructure | true ⓘ |
| hasHookLine | "It wasn't me" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:47 ⓘ |
| mainVocalist | Shaggy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Stephen Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | humorous ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | infidelity ⓘ |
| notableFor |
catchy chorus about denying cheating
ⓘ
global commercial success ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Hot Shot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Shaggy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedesSingle | Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Shaun Pizzonia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sting International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1999 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
MCA Records
ⓘ
Virgin Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2000-09-11 ⓘ |
| tempo | mid-tempo ⓘ |
| writer |
Brian Thompson
NERFINISHED
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Lloyd Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ Orville Burrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Rickardo Ducent NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaun Pizzonia 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: It Wasn't Me Description of subject: "It Wasn't Me" is a 2000 reggae fusion hit single by Shaggy featuring RikRok, known for its catchy chorus and humorous narrative about denying infidelity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
“It Wasn’t Me”
this entity surface form:
“It Wasn’t Me”