Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song)

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"Lay Me Down" is a soulful pop ballad by Sam Smith that served as his debut single and showcases his powerful, emotive vocal style.

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf charity single
single
song
album In the Lonely Hour
artist Sam Smith
associatedAct John Legend
benefits Comic Relief
charitySingleFor Comic Relief
chronologyInArtistSingles first solo single by Sam Smith
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre pop
soul
soulful pop ballad
hasCoverArt Lay Me Down Sam Smith single cover
hasMusicVideo Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song) music video
hasVersion Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lay Me Down (Sam Smith and John Legend charity version)
includedInAlbum In the Lonely Hour
language English
musicalForm ballad
musicVideoDirector Ryan Hope
notableFor showcasing Sam Smith's vocal ability
notablePerformance Comic Relief
surface form: Comic Relief 2015
originalReleaseDate 2013-02-15
originalReleaseYear 2013
performer Sam Smith
producer Jimmy Napes
Naughty Boy
Steve Fitzmaurice
recordLabel Capitol Records
Capitol Records
surface form: Capitol Records UK
reReleaseYear 2015
singleSequence debut single
subjectOf music reviews
tempo slow
theme longing
loss
love
usesInstrumentation percussion
piano
strings
vocalRange tenor
vocalStyle emotive
powerful
writer Elvin Smith
Jimmy Napes
Sam Smith

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: Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song)
Description of subject: "Lay Me Down" is a soulful pop ballad by Sam Smith that served as his debut single and showcases his powerful, emotive vocal style.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jimmy Napes notableWork Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song)
Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song) hasMusicVideo Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song) music video
Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song) hasVersion Lay Me Down (Sam Smith song) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Lay Me Down (Sam Smith and John Legend charity version)