Can We Still Be Friends
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"Can We Still Be Friends" is a soft rock ballad by American musician Todd Rundgren, known for its bittersweet lyrics about maintaining a relationship after a breakup and its enduring popularity since its 1978 release.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Can We Still Be Friends canonical | 6 |
| B. E. Taylor – Can We Still Be Friends | 1 |
| Mandy Moore – Can We Still Be Friends | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10225914 — 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: Can We Still Be Friends Context triple: [Todd Rundgren, notableSong, Can We Still Be Friends]
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A.
Can’t We Be Friends?
"Can’t We Be Friends?" is a classic jazz vocal duet performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, showcasing their signature blend of playful banter and expressive phrasing.
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B.
Friends Will Be Friends
"Friends Will Be Friends" is a 1986 rock song by the British band Queen, known for its anthemic chorus celebrating loyalty and camaraderie.
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C.
We Used to Be Friends
"We Used to Be Friends" is an indie rock song by The Dandy Warhols best known for its use as the theme music to the television series Veronica Mars.
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D.
You Can't Make Old Friends
"You Can't Make Old Friends" is a country song best known for its recording by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, reflecting on the enduring bond of lifelong friendship.
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E.
What About Your Friends
"What About Your Friends" is a 1992 R&B/hip-hop single by the American girl group TLC that explores themes of trust and loyalty in friendships.
- 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: Can We Still Be Friends Target entity description: "Can We Still Be Friends" is a soft rock ballad by American musician Todd Rundgren, known for its bittersweet lyrics about maintaining a relationship after a breakup and its enduring popularity since its 1978 release.
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A.
Can’t We Be Friends?
"Can’t We Be Friends?" is a classic jazz vocal duet performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, showcasing their signature blend of playful banter and expressive phrasing.
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B.
Friends Will Be Friends
"Friends Will Be Friends" is a 1986 rock song by the British band Queen, known for its anthemic chorus celebrating loyalty and camaraderie.
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C.
We Used to Be Friends
"We Used to Be Friends" is an indie rock song by The Dandy Warhols best known for its use as the theme music to the television series Veronica Mars.
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D.
You Can't Make Old Friends
"You Can't Make Old Friends" is a country song best known for its recording by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, reflecting on the enduring bond of lifelong friendship.
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E.
What About Your Friends
"What About Your Friends" is a 1992 R&B/hip-hop single by the American girl group TLC that explores themes of trust and loyalty in friendships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Can We Still Be Friends Description of subject: "Can We Still Be Friends" is a soft rock ballad by American musician Todd Rundgren, known for its bittersweet lyrics about maintaining a relationship after a breakup and its enduring popularity since its 1978 release.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Can We Still Be Friends
linked to: Can We Still Be Friends