Don't Be Cruel (song)
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"Don't Be Cruel" is a 1956 rock and roll song by Elvis Presley that became one of his signature hits and a defining record of early rock music.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Don't Be Cruel (song) canonical | 2 |
| Don’t Be Cruel | 2 |
| "Don't Be Cruel" | 1 |
| "Don't Be Cruel" world tour | 1 |
| Don’t Be Cruel (song) | 1 |
| song "Don't Be Cruel" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1230581 — 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: Don't Be Cruel (song) Context triple: [Don't Be Cruel, hasSingle, Don't Be Cruel (song)]
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A.
Don’t Be Cruel
"Don’t Be Cruel" is Bobby Brown’s breakthrough 1988 R&B/pop album that propelled him to solo stardom with a new jack swing sound and multiple hit singles.
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B.
So Cruel
"So Cruel" is a moody, emotionally charged song by U2 from their critically acclaimed 1991 album Achtung Baby.
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C.
Doin’ the Suzie-Q
"Doin’ the Suzie-Q" is a jazz composition associated with pioneering pianist, composer, and bandleader Lil Hardin Armstrong, reflecting her influential role in early jazz and swing-era music.
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D.
Heartbreak Hotel
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a hit R&B single by Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price, known for its soulful vocals and themes of betrayal and emotional pain.
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E.
Satin Doll
"Satin Doll" is a classic jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington (with contributions from Billy Strayhorn and lyrics later added by Johnny Mercer) that has become one of his most frequently performed and recorded pieces.
- 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: Don't Be Cruel (song) Target entity description: "Don't Be Cruel" is a 1956 rock and roll song by Elvis Presley that became one of his signature hits and a defining record of early rock music.
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A.
Don’t Be Cruel
"Don’t Be Cruel" is Bobby Brown’s breakthrough 1988 R&B/pop album that propelled him to solo stardom with a new jack swing sound and multiple hit singles.
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B.
So Cruel
"So Cruel" is a moody, emotionally charged song by U2 from their critically acclaimed 1991 album Achtung Baby.
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C.
Doin’ the Suzie-Q
"Doin’ the Suzie-Q" is a jazz composition associated with pioneering pianist, composer, and bandleader Lil Hardin Armstrong, reflecting her influential role in early jazz and swing-era music.
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D.
Heartbreak Hotel
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a hit R&B single by Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price, known for its soulful vocals and themes of betrayal and emotional pain.
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E.
Satin Doll
"Satin Doll" is a classic jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington (with contributions from Billy Strayhorn and lyrics later added by Johnny Mercer) that has become one of his most frequently performed and recorded pieces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Don't Be Cruel (song) Description of subject: "Don't Be Cruel" is a 1956 rock and roll song by Elvis Presley that became one of his signature hits and a defining record of early rock music.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Don't Be Cruel
subject surface form:
Don't Be Cruel
this entity surface form:
Don’t Be Cruel (song)
this entity surface form:
song "Don't Be Cruel"
this entity surface form:
"Don't Be Cruel" world tour
this entity surface form:
Don’t Be Cruel
this entity surface form:
"Don't Be Cruel"
this entity surface form:
Don’t Be Cruel