Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
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"Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)" is a 1962 soul and R&B hit by Ben E. King, known for its emotive vocals and tale of heartbreak over a once-cherished love song.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don't Play That Song (You Lied) | 3 |
| Don’t Play That Song (You Lied) canonical | 3 |
| Don't Play That Song | 1 |
| Don’t Play That Song | 1 |
| Don’t Play That Song (Aretha Franklin version) | 1 |
| Don’t Play That Song! | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T623172 — 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: Don’t Play That Song (You Lied) Context triple: [Ben E. King, notableSong, Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)]
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A.
This Can't Be Love
"This Can't Be Love" is a popular 1938 show tune by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart, introduced in the musical "The Boys from Syracuse" and later recorded by numerous jazz and pop artists.
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B.
If I Ain't Got You
"If I Ain't Got You" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys, celebrated for its emotive vocals, piano-driven melody, and enduring popularity as one of her signature songs.
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C.
Once Again
Once Again is John Legend's Grammy-winning second studio album, known for its soulful blend of R&B, pop, and neo-soul.
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D.
Didn't We Almost Have It All
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" is a power ballad by Whitney Houston that became one of her major hit singles in the late 1980s.
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E.
Are You Really Mine
"Are You Really Mine" is a country music song recorded by American singer Jimmie Rodgers that became one of his notable hits.
- 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: Don’t Play That Song (You Lied) Target entity description: "Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)" is a 1962 soul and R&B hit by Ben E. King, known for its emotive vocals and tale of heartbreak over a once-cherished love song.
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A.
This Can't Be Love
"This Can't Be Love" is a popular 1938 show tune by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart, introduced in the musical "The Boys from Syracuse" and later recorded by numerous jazz and pop artists.
-
B.
If I Ain't Got You
"If I Ain't Got You" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys, celebrated for its emotive vocals, piano-driven melody, and enduring popularity as one of her signature songs.
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C.
Once Again
Once Again is John Legend's Grammy-winning second studio album, known for its soulful blend of R&B, pop, and neo-soul.
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D.
Didn't We Almost Have It All
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" is a power ballad by Whitney Houston that became one of her major hit singles in the late 1980s.
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E.
Are You Really Mine
"Are You Really Mine" is a country music song recorded by American singer Jimmie Rodgers that became one of his notable hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
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surface form:
Don’t Play That Song
|
| chartSuccess | hit single in 1962 ⓘ |
| composer | Ahmet Ertegun ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
rhythm and blues
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soul ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion |
Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Don’t Play That Song (Aretha Franklin version)
|
| hasTitle | Don’t Play That Song (You Lied) self-link ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Ahmet Ertegun
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Betty Nelson ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
emotional pain triggered by music
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heartbreak ⓘ lost love ⓘ |
| originalArtist | Ben E. King ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum |
Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Don’t Play That Song!
|
| performer |
Aretha Franklin
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Ben E. King ⓘ |
| producer |
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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surface form:
Jerry Leiber
Mike Stoller ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1962 ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1962 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Atco Records ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | emotive vocals ⓘ |
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: Don’t Play That Song (You Lied) Description of subject: "Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)" is a 1962 soul and R&B hit by Ben E. King, known for its emotive vocals and tale of heartbreak over a once-cherished love song.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
→
partOfAlbum
→
Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Don’t Play That Song!
Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
→
hasCoverVersion
→
Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Don’t Play That Song (Aretha Franklin version)
this entity surface form:
Don’t Play That Song
this entity surface form:
Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
this entity surface form:
Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
subject surface form:
Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
this entity surface form:
Don't Play That Song
subject surface form:
Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
this entity surface form:
Don't Play That Song (You Lied)