“Do What You Do”
E341611
“Do What You Do” is a 1984 R&B ballad by Jermaine Jackson, best known for its smooth, romantic style and memorable music video set in a film noir atmosphere.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Do What You Do | 3 |
| “Do What You Do” canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3258860 — 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: “Do What You Do” Context triple: [Jermaine Jackson, notableWork, “Do What You Do”]
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A.
Do It Now
"Do It Now" is a song by Paul McCartney featured on his 2018 studio album *Egypt Station*.
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B.
Doin' Our Thing
Doin' Our Thing is a 1968 soul and R&B instrumental album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s that showcases the band's tight grooves and signature Memphis sound.
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C.
Doin' My Thing
"Doin' My Thing" is a country music studio album by American singer Luke Bryan that helped establish his mainstream success with a blend of traditional and contemporary country sounds.
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D.
The Way You Do the Things You Do
"The Way You Do the Things You Do" is a 1964 Motown hit single by The Temptations, celebrated as one of their breakthrough songs and a classic of the soul genre.
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E.
Do Yourself a Favor
"Do Yourself a Favor" is a soulful R&B track by Stevie Wonder from his early-1970s period, showcasing his evolving, socially aware songwriting and innovative production.
- 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: “Do What You Do” Target entity description: “Do What You Do” is a 1984 R&B ballad by Jermaine Jackson, best known for its smooth, romantic style and memorable music video set in a film noir atmosphere.
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A.
Do It Now
"Do It Now" is a song by Paul McCartney featured on his 2018 studio album *Egypt Station*.
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B.
Doin' Our Thing
Doin' Our Thing is a 1968 soul and R&B instrumental album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s that showcases the band's tight grooves and signature Memphis sound.
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C.
Doin' My Thing
"Doin' My Thing" is a country music studio album by American singer Luke Bryan that helped establish his mainstream success with a blend of traditional and contemporary country sounds.
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D.
The Way You Do the Things You Do
"The Way You Do the Things You Do" is a 1964 Motown hit single by The Temptations, celebrated as one of their breakthrough songs and a classic of the soul genre.
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E.
Do Yourself a Favor
"Do Yourself a Favor" is a soulful R&B track by Stevie Wonder from his early-1970s period, showcasing his evolving, socially aware songwriting and innovative production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Jermaine Jackson ⓘ |
| artist | Jermaine Jackson ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
US Billboard Hot 100 top 20 hit
ⓘ
US R&B chart hit ⓘ |
| chronology | Jermaine Jackson singles chronology ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1980s ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
ⓘ
7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation | lush arrangement ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | true ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | smooth vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicVideoStyle | film noir ⓘ |
| musicVideoTheme | romantic ⓘ |
| notableFor |
film noir–inspired music video
ⓘ
smooth romantic style ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Jermaine Jackson ⓘ |
| performer | Jermaine Jackson ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Arista Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1984-10-?? ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| side | A-side ⓘ |
| style | ballad ⓘ |
| theme |
love and heartbreak
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ |
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: “Do What You Do” Description of subject: “Do What You Do” is a 1984 R&B ballad by Jermaine Jackson, best known for its smooth, romantic style and memorable music video set in a film noir atmosphere.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Do What You Do
subject surface form:
Jermaine Jackson (1984 album)
this entity surface form:
Do What You Do
subject surface form:
Jermaine Jackson (1984 album)
this entity surface form:
Do What You Do