Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)
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"Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)" is a popular 1960 R&B duet recording by Dinah Washington and Brook Benton that became one of Washington’s best-known crossover hits.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baby (You've Got What It Takes) | 2 |
| Baby, You’ve Got What It Takes | 2 |
| Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7606062 — 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: Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes) Context triple: [Dinah Washington, notableWork, Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)]
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A.
I Got What It Takes
"I Got What It Takes" is a powerful Chicago blues song made famous by legendary blues singer Koko Taylor, showcasing her gritty vocals and commanding style.
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B.
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
"You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby" is a landmark 1998 big beat electronic album by British musician Fatboy Slim, known for its innovative sampling and hit singles like "Praise You" and "The Rockafeller Skank."
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C.
We Are Family
"We Are Family" is a famous unifying slogan and theme song, popularized by the Pittsburgh Pirates during their 1979 World Series championship season.
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D.
Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" is a power ballad originally recorded by Phil Collins, best known as the theme song for the 1984 film "Against All Odds" and later widely covered by other artists.
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E.
The Eye of the Tiger
The Eye of the Tiger is an adventure novel by Wilbur Smith that follows a former soldier-turned-salvage diver drawn into a dangerous quest for a legendary treasure.
- 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: Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes) Target entity description: "Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)" is a popular 1960 R&B duet recording by Dinah Washington and Brook Benton that became one of Washington’s best-known crossover hits.
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A.
I Got What It Takes
"I Got What It Takes" is a powerful Chicago blues song made famous by legendary blues singer Koko Taylor, showcasing her gritty vocals and commanding style.
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B.
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
"You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby" is a landmark 1998 big beat electronic album by British musician Fatboy Slim, known for its innovative sampling and hit singles like "Praise You" and "The Rockafeller Skank."
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C.
We Are Family
"We Are Family" is a famous unifying slogan and theme song, popularized by the Pittsburgh Pirates during their 1979 World Series championship season.
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D.
Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" is a power ballad originally recorded by Phil Collins, best known as the theme song for the 1984 film "Against All Odds" and later widely covered by other artists.
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E.
The Eye of the Tiger
The Eye of the Tiger is an adventure novel by Wilbur Smith that follows a former soldier-turned-salvage diver drawn into a dangerous quest for a legendary treasure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| basedOnEarlierRecordingBy | Brook Benton ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit
ⓘ
Billboard R&B chart hit ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasBside | I Do ⓘ |
| hasCallAndResponseStructure | true ⓘ |
| hasEarlierTitleVariant | You’ve Got What It Takes ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | vocal duet ⓘ |
| hasNotableVersionBy | Dinah Washington and Brook Benton ⓘ |
| hasTempo | medium tempo ⓘ |
| hasTheme | romantic relationship ⓘ |
| isAmongBestKnownSongsOf | Dinah Washington ⓘ |
| isCrossoverHitOf | Dinah Washington ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist |
Brook Benton
ⓘ
Dinah Washington ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| performer |
Brook Benton
ⓘ
Dinah Washington ⓘ |
| producer | Clyde Otis ⓘ |
| recordingYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Mercury Records ⓘ |
| songwriter |
Brook Benton
ⓘ
Clyde Otis ⓘ Murray Stein ⓘ |
| vocalType | duet ⓘ |
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: Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes) Description of subject: "Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)" is a popular 1960 R&B duet recording by Dinah Washington and Brook Benton that became one of Washington’s best-known crossover hits.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Miss D
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