Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
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"Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood" is a classic 1960s rhythm and blues song, popularized by The Animals’ soulful rock rendition and later covered by numerous artists across genres.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9374857 — 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 Let Me Be Misunderstood Context triple: [The Animals, notableWork, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood]
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A.
What'd I Say
"What'd I Say" is a 1959 rhythm and blues song by Ray Charles that became one of his signature hits and a pioneering record in the development of soul music.
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B.
You Do Something to Me
"You Do Something to Me" is a popular romantic song written by Cole Porter that has become a jazz and pop standard recorded by numerous artists.
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C.
I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself
"I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself" is a classic pop song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David that has been widely covered by numerous artists since the 1960s.
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D.
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
"Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is a power ballad best known as one of Elton John’s signature songs, later revived in a hit live duet with George Michael.
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E.
Don't Mind If I Do
"Don't Mind If I Do" is a 1999 studio album by British pop band Culture Club that marked their reunion and return to recording after more than a decade.
- 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 Let Me Be Misunderstood Target entity description: "Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood" is a classic 1960s rhythm and blues song, popularized by The Animals’ soulful rock rendition and later covered by numerous artists across genres.
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A.
What'd I Say
"What'd I Say" is a 1959 rhythm and blues song by Ray Charles that became one of his signature hits and a pioneering record in the development of soul music.
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B.
You Do Something to Me
"You Do Something to Me" is a popular romantic song written by Cole Porter that has become a jazz and pop standard recorded by numerous artists.
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C.
I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself
"I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself" is a classic pop song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David that has been widely covered by numerous artists since the 1960s.
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D.
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
"Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is a power ballad best known as one of Elton John’s signature songs, later revived in a hit live duet with George Michael.
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E.
Don't Mind If I Do
"Don't Mind If I Do" is a 1999 studio album by British pop band Culture Club that marked their reunion and return to recording after more than a decade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer |
Bennie Benjamin
NERFINISHED
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Gloria Caldwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Sol Marcus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coveredAcrossGenres |
disco
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flamenco-influenced disco ⓘ jazz ⓘ pop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| decadeOfProminence | 1960s ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| genre |
rhythm and blues
ⓘ
rock ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric | I'm just a soul whose intentions are good ⓘ |
| hasNotableVersion |
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Santa Esmeralda version)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (The Animals version) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
blue-eyed soul
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psychedelic rock arrangements of R&B songs ⓘ |
| isConsidered | classic 1960s song ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Bennie Benjamin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gloria Caldwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Sol Marcus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCoverArtist |
Cyndi Lauper
NERFINISHED
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Elvis Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Cocker NERFINISHED ⓘ John Legend NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Esmeralda NERFINISHED ⓘ The Animals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | Nina Simone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | The Animals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Cyndi Lauper
NERFINISHED
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Elvis Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Cocker NERFINISHED ⓘ John Legend NERFINISHED ⓘ Nina Simone NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Esmeralda NERFINISHED ⓘ The Animals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
desire for understanding
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miscommunication in relationships ⓘ |
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 Let Me Be Misunderstood Description of subject: "Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood" is a classic 1960s rhythm and blues song, popularized by The Animals’ soulful rock rendition and later covered by numerous artists across genres.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.