Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
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"Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" is a 1962 rock and roll/pop single by Roy Orbison, known for its upbeat rhythm and Orbison’s distinctive vocal style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1821133 — 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: Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) Context triple: [Roy Orbison, notableWork, Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)]
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A.
I Have Dreamed
"I Have Dreamed" is a romantic song from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I," known for its lush melody and intimate, dreamlike lyrics.
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B.
Someday Baby
"Someday Baby" is a modern electric blues song by Bob Dylan, featured on his 2006 album *Modern Times* and based on the traditional blues number "Worried Life Blues."
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C.
I'm Your Baby Tonight
"I'm Your Baby Tonight" is a 1990 R&B and pop song by Whitney Houston that showcases a more urban, dance-oriented sound and became one of her major international hits.
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D.
Daydream
"Daydream" is a song best known as the lead single from the album "Fantasy."
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E.
Daydream
Daydream is a critically acclaimed 1995 pop and R&B album by Mariah Carey that marked a creative and commercial peak in her career.
- 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: Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) Target entity description: "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" is a 1962 rock and roll/pop single by Roy Orbison, known for its upbeat rhythm and Orbison’s distinctive vocal style.
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A.
I Have Dreamed
"I Have Dreamed" is a romantic song from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I," known for its lush melody and intimate, dreamlike lyrics.
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B.
Someday Baby
"Someday Baby" is a modern electric blues song by Bob Dylan, featured on his 2006 album *Modern Times* and based on the traditional blues number "Worried Life Blues."
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C.
I'm Your Baby Tonight
"I'm Your Baby Tonight" is a 1990 R&B and pop song by Whitney Houston that showcases a more urban, dance-oriented sound and became one of her major international hits.
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D.
Daydream
"Daydream" is a song best known as the lead single from the album "Fantasy."
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E.
Daydream
Daydream is a critically acclaimed 1995 pop and R&B album by Mariah Carey that marked a creative and commercial peak in her career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Roy Orbison ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Roy Orbison ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
rock and roll ⓘ |
| hasChorus | repeating line "How long must I dream" ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
backing vocals
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bass ⓘ drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) self-link ⓘ |
| hasType |
pop single
ⓘ
rock and roll single ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicalEra | 1960s rock and roll ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Roy Orbison’s distinctive vocal style
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upbeat rhythm ⓘ |
| originalMedium | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| performer | Roy Orbison ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Dream Baby ⓘ |
| tempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
| vocalFocus | lead vocal ⓘ |
| vocalStyle |
melismatic phrasing
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tenor ⓘ |
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: Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) Description of subject: "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" is a 1962 rock and roll/pop single by Roy Orbison, known for its upbeat rhythm and Orbison’s distinctive vocal style.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.