Tell It Like It Is
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"Tell It Like It Is" is a classic soul album by Aaron Neville, best known for its hit title track that became his signature song.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tell It Like It Is canonical | 8 |
| Tell It Like It Is (song) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10031636 — 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: Tell It Like It Is Context triple: [Aaron Neville, notableAlbum, Tell It Like It Is]
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A.
Tell It Like It Is
"Tell It Like It Is" is a track by American R&B artist Ludacris featured on his Grammy-winning album "Release Therapy."
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B.
Tell It
"Tell It" is a gospel music album by The Georgia Mass Choir that showcases their powerful choral sound and spiritually uplifting songs.
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C.
Say It Isn't So
"Say It Isn't So" is a pop rock song by the American band Crush, known for its melodic hooks and emotional lyrics.
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D.
Say It Isn’t So
"Say It Isn’t So" is a 1983 pop-rock single by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, known for its catchy hooks and success on the Billboard charts.
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E.
Tell Me That It Isn't True
"Tell Me That It Isn't True" is a country-influenced song by Bob Dylan featured on his late-1960s album Nashville Skyline.
- 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: Tell It Like It Is Target entity description: "Tell It Like It Is" is a classic soul album by Aaron Neville, best known for its hit title track that became his signature song.
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A.
Tell It Like It Is
"Tell It Like It Is" is a track by American R&B artist Ludacris featured on his Grammy-winning album "Release Therapy."
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B.
Tell It
"Tell It" is a gospel music album by The Georgia Mass Choir that showcases their powerful choral sound and spiritually uplifting songs.
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C.
Say It Isn't So
"Say It Isn't So" is a pop rock song by the American band Crush, known for its melodic hooks and emotional lyrics.
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D.
Say It Isn’t So
"Say It Isn’t So" is a 1983 pop-rock single by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, known for its catchy hooks and success on the Billboard charts.
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E.
Tell Me That It Isn't True
"Tell Me That It Isn't True" is a country-influenced song by Bob Dylan featured on his late-1960s album Nashville Skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
soul album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Aaron Neville ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Neville Brothers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | soul ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | classic of 1960s soul music ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | rhythm and blues artists ⓘ |
| hasReception | critically acclaimed title track ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional honesty in love
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Tell It Like It Is (song)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tell It Like It Is
|
| hasType | classic soul recording ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Aaron Neville’s signature song
ⓘ
hit title track ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainPerformerVocalType | tenor ⓘ |
| musicStyle |
New Orleans soul
ⓘ
linked to:
New Orleans rhythm and blues
|
| notableSong |
Tell It Like It Is (song)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tell It Like It Is
|
| partOf |
Aaron Neville discography
ⓘ
linked to:
Aaron Neville
|
| performer | Aaron Neville ⓘ |
| recordingArtistNationality | American ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Aaron Neville ⓘ |
| titleTrack |
Tell It Like It Is (song)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tell It Like It Is
|
| vocalEmphasis | emotive vocal delivery ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | male lead 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: Tell It Like It Is Description of subject: "Tell It Like It Is" is a classic soul album by Aaron Neville, best known for its hit title track that became his signature song.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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