I Try
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"I Try" is a soulful R&B ballad by American singer Macy Gray that became her signature hit and earned widespread acclaim around the turn of the millennium.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Try canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8424816 — 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 Try Context triple: [Macy Gray, notableWork, I Try]
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A.
If I Fell
"If I Fell" is a 1964 Beatles ballad, sung primarily by John Lennon, noted for its close vocal harmonies and introspective lyrics about the vulnerability of falling in love.
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B.
I’m Still
"I'm Still" is a track by DJ Khaled from his studio album "Suffering from Success."
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C.
I’m Down
"I’m Down" is a song featured on Aerosmith’s 1987 hard rock album "Permanent Vacation."
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D.
I Only Wanted
"I Only Wanted" is a song by American singer Mariah Carey from her 2002 studio album "Charmbracelet."
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E.
Just Don't
"Just Don't" is a song by American musician Raphael Saadiq from his retro-soul album "Stone Rollin'."
- 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 Try Target entity description: "I Try" is a soulful R&B ballad by American singer Macy Gray that became her signature hit and earned widespread acclaim around the turn of the millennium.
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A.
If I Fell
"If I Fell" is a 1964 Beatles ballad, sung primarily by John Lennon, noted for its close vocal harmonies and introspective lyrics about the vulnerability of falling in love.
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B.
I’m Still
"I'm Still" is a track by DJ Khaled from his studio album "Suffering from Success."
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C.
I’m Down
"I’m Down" is a song featured on Aerosmith’s 1987 hard rock album "Permanent Vacation."
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D.
I Only Wanted
"I Only Wanted" is a song by American singer Mariah Carey from her 2002 studio album "Charmbracelet."
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E.
Just Don't
"Just Don't" is a song by American musician Raphael Saadiq from his retro-soul album "Stone Rollin'."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | On How Life Is NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Macy Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustraliaARIA | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanada | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionIreland | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNewZealand | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 6 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 5 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | widespread acclaim ⓘ |
| era | turn of the millennium ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | yes ⓘ |
| includedOn | various 2000s R&B compilations ⓘ |
| isBreakthroughHitFor | Macy Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| key | E-flat major ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:59 ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
emotional vulnerability
ⓘ
heartbreak ⓘ longing ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Mark Romanek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Grammy Award for Record of the Year
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grammy Award for Song of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
melancholic yet uplifting lyrics
ⓘ
raspy distinctive vocal performance ⓘ |
| partOf | On How Life Is NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Macy Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Andrew Slater
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeremy Ruzumna NERFINISHED ⓘ Jinsoo Lim NERFINISHED ⓘ Macy Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | late 1990s ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Clean Slate Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Epic Records ⓘ |
| releaseDateSingle | 1999-09-27 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Macy Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tempo | slow ⓘ |
| timeSignature | 4/4 ⓘ |
| vocalType | soulful R&B ballad ⓘ |
| writer |
David Wilder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeremy Ruzumna NERFINISHED ⓘ Jinsoo Lim NERFINISHED ⓘ Macy Gray 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 Try Description of subject: "I Try" is a soulful R&B ballad by American singer Macy Gray that became her signature hit and earned widespread acclaim around the turn of the millennium.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.