When I Need a Friend
E813356
"When I Need a Friend" is a choral, hymn-like ballad by Coldplay that appears as a bonus track on their 2019 album Everyday Life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| When I Need a Friend canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9679751 — 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: When I Need a Friend Context triple: [Everyday Life, track, When I Need a Friend]
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A.
Anytime You Need a Friend
"Anytime You Need a Friend" is a gospel-influenced pop ballad by Mariah Carey, released as a single from her 1993 album "Music Box."
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B.
You Are My Friend
"You Are My Friend" is a soulful 1978 R&B ballad by Patti LaBelle that has become one of her signature songs and a staple of her live performances.
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C.
He's My Friend
"He's My Friend" is a musical number from the Broadway show *The Unsinkable Molly Brown*, reflecting the spirited, supportive relationships central to the story.
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D.
You’ve Got a Friend
"You’ve Got a Friend" is a classic 1971 pop ballad written by Carole King that became an enduring anthem of comfort and support, popularized by both King and James Taylor.
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E.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
- 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: When I Need a Friend Target entity description: "When I Need a Friend" is a choral, hymn-like ballad by Coldplay that appears as a bonus track on their 2019 album Everyday Life.
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A.
Anytime You Need a Friend
"Anytime You Need a Friend" is a gospel-influenced pop ballad by Mariah Carey, released as a single from her 1993 album "Music Box."
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B.
You Are My Friend
"You Are My Friend" is a soulful 1978 R&B ballad by Patti LaBelle that has become one of her signature songs and a staple of her live performances.
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C.
He's My Friend
"He's My Friend" is a musical number from the Broadway show *The Unsinkable Molly Brown*, reflecting the spirited, supportive relationships central to the story.
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D.
You’ve Got a Friend
"You’ve Got a Friend" is a classic 1971 pop ballad written by Carole King that became an enduring anthem of comfort and support, popularized by both King and James Taylor.
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E.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
choral ballad
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hymn-like ballad ⓘ song ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| album | Everyday Life ⓘ |
| artist |
Coldplay
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Coldplay ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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alternative rock ⓘ ballad ⓘ choral music ⓘ |
| hasAlbumType | studio album ⓘ |
| hasArtistType | band ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | hymn-like ⓘ |
| hasTempo | slow ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
comfort
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seeking support ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | choral ⓘ |
| includedOn | Everyday Life ⓘ |
| isBonusTrackOn | Everyday Life ⓘ |
| isRecordedBy | Coldplay ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Everyday Life ⓘ |
| performer | Coldplay ⓘ |
| performerNationality | British ⓘ |
| publisher |
Atlantic Records
ⓘ
Parlophone ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Coldplay ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
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Parlophone ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 2010s ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
2019
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2019 ⓘ |
| trackPosition | bonus track ⓘ |
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: When I Need a Friend Description of subject: "When I Need a Friend" is a choral, hymn-like ballad by Coldplay that appears as a bonus track on their 2019 album Everyday Life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.