Licking Stick – Licking Stick
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"Licking Stick – Licking Stick" is a 1968 funk and soul single by James Brown, notable for its driving groove and influential role in the development of funk music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lickin' Stick – Lickin' Stick | 1 |
| Licking Stick – Licking Stick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9134273 — 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: Licking Stick – Licking Stick Context triple: [Sex Machine, hasPart, Licking Stick – Licking Stick]
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A.
The Stick
The Stick is the longtime nickname of Candlestick Park, the former outdoor sports stadium in San Francisco that famously hosted the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
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B.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
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C.
Sticky Wicked
"Sticky Wicked" is a song by British singer-songwriter C.K., known for its smooth, contemporary pop-R&B style.
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D.
Sugar on a Stick
Sugar on a Stick is a portable, USB-based distribution of the Sugar learning environment designed to provide children with an easy, bootable educational platform.
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E.
Mucky Fingers
"Mucky Fingers" is a bluesy, Velvet Underground-influenced rock song by Oasis, featured on their 2005 album "Don't Believe the Truth."
- 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: Licking Stick – Licking Stick Target entity description: "Licking Stick – Licking Stick" is a 1968 funk and soul single by James Brown, notable for its driving groove and influential role in the development of funk music.
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A.
The Stick
The Stick is the longtime nickname of Candlestick Park, the former outdoor sports stadium in San Francisco that famously hosted the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
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B.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
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C.
Sticky Wicked
"Sticky Wicked" is a song by British singer-songwriter C.K., known for its smooth, contemporary pop-R&B style.
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D.
Sugar on a Stick
Sugar on a Stick is a portable, USB-based distribution of the Sugar learning environment designed to provide children with an easy, bootable educational platform.
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E.
Mucky Fingers
"Mucky Fingers" is a bluesy, Velvet Underground-influenced rock song by Oasis, featured on their 2005 album "Don't Believe the Truth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | James Brown ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
Billboard Hot 100 chart entry
ⓘ
Billboard R&B chart top 20 hit ⓘ |
| chronology |
James Brown singles chronology
ⓘ
linked to:
James Brown song catalog
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decade | 1960s ⓘ |
| featuresMusicalStyle |
horn section riffs
ⓘ
prominent bass line ⓘ syncopated rhythm ⓘ |
| followedBy | America Is My Home ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasBside | If You Love Me ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 2:46 ⓘ |
| includedIn |
James Brown discography
ⓘ
linked to:
James Brown recordings
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
driving groove
ⓘ
influential role in the development of funk music ⓘ |
| performer | James Brown ⓘ |
| precededBy | I Got the Feelin' ⓘ |
| producer | James Brown ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
James Brown and his band
ⓘ
linked to:
The James Brown Band
|
| recordLabel | King Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1968-05 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| writer |
Alfred Ellis
ⓘ
Bobby Byrd ⓘ James Brown ⓘ |
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: Licking Stick – Licking Stick Description of subject: "Licking Stick – Licking Stick" is a 1968 funk and soul single by James Brown, notable for its driving groove and influential role in the development of funk music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Licking Stick – Licking Stick