I Was Only Telling a Lie
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"I Was Only Telling a Lie" is a song by American singer-songwriter James Taylor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Was Only Telling a Lie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10956305 — 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 Was Only Telling a Lie Context triple: [JT, hasTrack, I Was Only Telling a Lie]
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A.
Telling Lies
Telling Lies is a non-fiction book by psychologist Paul Ekman that explores the psychology, science, and detection of human deception.
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B.
Telling Lies
Telling Lies is an interactive narrative video game that uses full-motion video and a non-linear search-based interface to unravel a complex story through secretly recorded conversations.
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C.
Pack of Lies
Pack of Lies is a stage play by Hugh Whitemore that dramatizes the true story of a suburban British couple whose friends are unmasked as Soviet spies.
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D.
One of My Lies
"One of My Lies" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their early studio album "Kerplunk."
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E.
You Lied
"You Lied" is a song by the American rock band Shenanigans.
- 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 Was Only Telling a Lie Target entity description: "I Was Only Telling a Lie" is a song by American singer-songwriter James Taylor.
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A.
Telling Lies
Telling Lies is a non-fiction book by psychologist Paul Ekman that explores the psychology, science, and detection of human deception.
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B.
Telling Lies
Telling Lies is an interactive narrative video game that uses full-motion video and a non-linear search-based interface to unravel a complex story through secretly recorded conversations.
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C.
Pack of Lies
Pack of Lies is a stage play by Hugh Whitemore that dramatizes the true story of a suburban British couple whose friends are unmasked as Soviet spies.
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D.
One of My Lies
"One of My Lies" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their early studio album "Kerplunk."
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E.
You Lied
"You Lied" is a song by the American rock band Shenanigans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | JT ⓘ |
| artist | James Taylor ⓘ |
| composer | James Taylor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
singer-songwriter
ⓘ
soft rock ⓘ |
| hasCreator | James Taylor ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPerformer | James Taylor ⓘ |
| hasType | song ⓘ |
| includedIn | JT ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | James Taylor ⓘ |
| medium | studio recording ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | James Taylor ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | JT ⓘ |
| performer | James Taylor ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1977 ⓘ |
| recordedBy | James Taylor ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| title | I Was Only Telling a Lie ⓘ |
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 Was Only Telling a Lie Description of subject: "I Was Only Telling a Lie" is a song by American singer-songwriter James Taylor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.