Make It Easy on Yourself
E140829
"Make It Easy on Yourself" is a classic pop ballad, originally a 1960s hit written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and covered by numerous artists including Cissy Houston.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1235161 — 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: Make It Easy on Yourself Context triple: [Cissy Houston (album), hasTrack, Make It Easy on Yourself]
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A.
Let Yourself Go
"Let Yourself Go" is a punk rock song by Green Day from their 2012 album ¡Uno!.
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B.
Make My Day
"Make My Day" is a track by rapper Common from his album "Universal Mind Control," showcasing his blend of hip hop with futuristic, electronic-influenced production.
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C.
Make It New
"Make It New" is Ezra Pound’s famous modernist slogan advocating radical innovation and a break from literary tradition in art and poetry.
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D.
Come and Get It
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film, co-directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, best known for featuring Walter Brennan in an Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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E.
Get Out of Your Own Way
"Get Out of Your Own Way" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 2017 album *Songs of Experience*, noted for its anthemic sound and politically charged lyrics.
- 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: Make It Easy on Yourself Target entity description: "Make It Easy on Yourself" is a classic pop ballad, originally a 1960s hit written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and covered by numerous artists including Cissy Houston.
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A.
Let Yourself Go
"Let Yourself Go" is a punk rock song by Green Day from their 2012 album ¡Uno!.
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B.
Make My Day
"Make My Day" is a track by rapper Common from his album "Universal Mind Control," showcasing his blend of hip hop with futuristic, electronic-influenced production.
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C.
Make It New
"Make It New" is Ezra Pound’s famous modernist slogan advocating radical innovation and a break from literary tradition in art and poetry.
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D.
Come and Get It
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film, co-directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, best known for featuring Walter Brennan in an Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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E.
Get Out of Your Own Way
"Get Out of Your Own Way" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 2017 album *Songs of Experience*, noted for its anthemic sound and politically charged lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer | Burt Bacharach ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
pop ballad ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion |
Make It Easy on Yourself
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Andy Williams version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Carmen McRae version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Cilla Black version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Cissy Houston version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Dionne Warwick version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Elvis Costello version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Isaac Hayes version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Jackie Trent version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Jerry Butler version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Ronan Keating version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Ronnie Milsap version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (The Lettermen version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (The Walker Brothers live versions)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (The Walker Brothers version)
Make It Easy on Yourself self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Tom Jones version)
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| hasInfluenceOn | later pop ballads of the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | orchestral pop arrangement ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Cilla Black
ⓘ
Cissy Houston ⓘ Dionne Warwick ⓘ Jerry Butler ⓘ Ronnie Milsap ⓘ The Walker Brothers ⓘ Tom Jones ⓘ |
| hasNotableSongwriterDuo |
Burt Bacharach
ⓘ
surface form:
Burt Bacharach and Hal David
|
| hasTheme |
emotional separation
ⓘ
romantic heartbreak ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | melodic crooner vocal delivery ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyIncludedIn | Burt Bacharach tribute albums ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyPerformedIn | easy listening radio formats ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
lush orchestration
ⓘ
melancholic lyrics ⓘ strong melodic hook ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Burt Bacharach song catalog
ⓘ
Hal David song catalog ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Hal David ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a classic Bacharach and David pop ballad ⓘ |
| originallyPublishedInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| writer |
Burt Bacharach
ⓘ
Hal David ⓘ |
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: Make It Easy on Yourself Description of subject: "Make It Easy on Yourself" is a classic pop ballad, originally a 1960s hit written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and covered by numerous artists including Cissy Houston.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cissy Houston (album)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Cissy Houston version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Jerry Butler version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (The Walker Brothers version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Dionne Warwick version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Ronnie Milsap version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Cilla Black version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Tom Jones version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Isaac Hayes version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (The Lettermen version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Andy Williams version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Elvis Costello version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Ronan Keating version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Carmen McRae version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (Jackie Trent version)
this entity surface form:
Make It Easy on Yourself (The Walker Brothers live versions)