I’d Rather Be with You
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"I’d Rather Be with You" is a classic 1976 funk and soul song by Bootsy Collins, known for its laid-back groove, romantic lyrics, and enduring influence on R&B and hip-hop.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I’d Rather Be with You canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10261488 — 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: I’d Rather Be with You Context triple: [Be with You, containsSampleFrom, I’d Rather Be with You]
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A.
I Want to Be with You
"I Want to Be with You" is a soul/R&B song popularized by American singer Dee Dee Warwick in the 1960s.
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B.
I Wanna Be with You
"I Wanna Be with You" is a hip hop/R&B track by DJ Khaled featuring Future, Nicki Minaj, and Rick Ross from his album "Suffering from Success."
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C.
I Wanna Be with You
"I Wanna Be with You" is a pop ballad and compilation album by American singer Mandy Moore that helped establish her early 2000s teen-pop career.
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D.
I Only Want to Be with You
"I Only Want to Be with You" is a 1963 pop song, best known as Dusty Springfield’s upbeat debut solo single and a classic of the British girl-pop era.
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E.
Being with You
"Being with You" is a 1981 soulful pop ballad by Smokey Robinson that became one of his major solo hits after leaving The Miracles.
- 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: I’d Rather Be with You Target entity description: "I’d Rather Be with You" is a classic 1976 funk and soul song by Bootsy Collins, known for its laid-back groove, romantic lyrics, and enduring influence on R&B and hip-hop.
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A.
I Want to Be with You
"I Want to Be with You" is a soul/R&B song popularized by American singer Dee Dee Warwick in the 1960s.
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B.
I Wanna Be with You
"I Wanna Be with You" is a hip hop/R&B track by DJ Khaled featuring Future, Nicki Minaj, and Rick Ross from his album "Suffering from Success."
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C.
I Wanna Be with You
"I Wanna Be with You" is a pop ballad and compilation album by American singer Mandy Moore that helped establish her early 2000s teen-pop career.
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D.
I Only Want to Be with You
"I Only Want to Be with You" is a 1963 pop song, best known as Dusty Springfield’s upbeat debut solo single and a classic of the British girl-pop era.
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E.
Being with You
"Being with You" is a 1981 soulful pop ballad by Smokey Robinson that became one of his major solo hits after leaving The Miracles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| albumReleaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| artist | Bootsy Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Parliament-Funkadelic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedArtist | George Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| era | 1970s funk ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
funk ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| hasHook | repeated phrase "I'd rather be with you" ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
background vocals
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drums ⓘ electric bass ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
falsetto vocals
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laid-back groove ⓘ prominent bassline ⓘ psychedelic funk elements ⓘ romantic lyrics ⓘ slow tempo ⓘ |
| hasStyle | P-Funk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
devotion
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love ⓘ romantic longing ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
R&B
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
enduring influence on R&B
ⓘ
frequent sampling in hip hop ⓘ signature Bootsy Collins song ⓘ |
| originalMedium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| partOf | Bootsy Collins discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Bootsy's Rubber Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Bootsy Collins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Bootsy's Rubber Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| tempo | slow jam ⓘ |
| vocalist | Bootsy Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Bootsy Collins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gary Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ George Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: I’d Rather Be with You Description of subject: "I’d Rather Be with You" is a classic 1976 funk and soul song by Bootsy Collins, known for its laid-back groove, romantic lyrics, and enduring influence on R&B and hip-hop.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.