I’m Your Puppet
E936357
"I’m Your Puppet" is a 1966 soul song, written by Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn and popularized by James & Bobby Purify, that became a classic of Southern soul music.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I’m Your Puppet canonical | 2 |
| I Am Your Puppet | 1 |
| I'm Your Puppet | 1 |
| I’m Your Puppet [as co-writer] | 1 |
| I’m Your Puppet [as session player] | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11603515 — 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’m Your Puppet Context triple: [Spooner Oldham, notableWork, I’m Your Puppet]
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A.
Puppet on a Chain
Puppet on a Chain is a 1969 thriller novel by Alistair MacLean, set in Amsterdam and centered on a suspenseful investigation into an international heroin-smuggling ring.
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B.
I’m a Marionette
"I'm a Marionette" is a theatrical, rock-influenced song by ABBA that appears on their 1977 album "The Album" and was featured in their mini-musical "The Girl with the Golden Hair."
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C.
Let My Puppets Come
Let My Puppets Come is a 1976 adult comedy film notable for its use of puppets in explicit, satirical scenarios.
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D.
The Woman and the Puppet
The Woman and the Puppet is a 1898 novel by Pierre Louÿs that tells a provocative tale of obsessive desire and manipulation between a Spanish woman and the man infatuated with her.
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E.
Serenade for the Doll
Serenade for the Doll is a gentle, lyrical piano piece by Claude Debussy, best known as one of the miniature character pieces in his Children’s Corner suite.
- 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’m Your Puppet Target entity description: "I’m Your Puppet" is a 1966 soul song, written by Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn and popularized by James & Bobby Purify, that became a classic of Southern soul music.
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A.
Puppet on a Chain
Puppet on a Chain is a 1969 thriller novel by Alistair MacLean, set in Amsterdam and centered on a suspenseful investigation into an international heroin-smuggling ring.
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B.
I’m a Marionette
"I'm a Marionette" is a theatrical, rock-influenced song by ABBA that appears on their 1977 album "The Album" and was featured in their mini-musical "The Girl with the Golden Hair."
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C.
Let My Puppets Come
Let My Puppets Come is a 1976 adult comedy film notable for its use of puppets in explicit, satirical scenarios.
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D.
The Woman and the Puppet
The Woman and the Puppet is a 1898 novel by Pierre Louÿs that tells a provocative tale of obsessive desire and manipulation between a Spanish woman and the man infatuated with her.
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E.
Serenade for the Doll
Serenade for the Doll is a gentle, lyrical piano piece by Claude Debussy, best known as one of the miniature character pieces in his Children’s Corner suite.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
I Am Your Puppet
ⓘ
linked to:
I’m Your Puppet
|
| composer | Spooner Oldham ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern soul
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
horn section
ⓘ
rhythm section ⓘ string section ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | soul ballad ⓘ |
| hasNotableSongwritersTeam |
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
ⓘ
linked to:
Dan Penn
|
| hasTheme | romantic devotion ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
I'm Your Puppet
ⓘ
linked to:
I’m Your Puppet
|
| influencedGenre |
Southern soul
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Dan Penn ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a classic of Southern soul music ⓘ |
| originalArtist | James & Bobby Purify ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| partOf | Southern soul canon ⓘ |
| performer | James & Bobby Purify ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | James & Bobby Purify ⓘ |
| vocalist |
Bobby Purify
ⓘ
James Purify ⓘ |
| writer |
Dan Penn
ⓘ
Spooner Oldham ⓘ |
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’m Your Puppet Description of subject: "I’m Your Puppet" is a 1966 soul song, written by Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn and popularized by James & Bobby Purify, that became a classic of Southern soul music.
Referenced by (6)
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I’m Your Puppet
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subject linked to:
I’m Your Puppet
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