How Can I Be Sure
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"How Can I Be Sure" is a pop song originally recorded by The Young Rascals in 1967 that later became a hit single for David Cassidy in the early 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| How Can I Be Sure canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5226872 — 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: How Can I Be Sure Context triple: [David Cassidy, notableSingle, How Can I Be Sure]
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A.
How Could It Be
"How Could It Be" is Eddie Murphy's 1985 debut studio album, blending R&B and pop with comedic elements and featuring the hit single "Party All the Time."
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B.
There You'll Be
"There You'll Be" is a power ballad by American country-pop singer Faith Hill, best known as the theme song from the 2001 film Pearl Harbor and one of her signature hits.
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C.
Can It Be All So Simple
"Can It Be All So Simple" is a reflective, soul-sampling track by Wu-Tang Clan that nostalgically recounts the struggles and aspirations of life in early-1990s New York.
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D.
How Will I Know
"How Will I Know" is a 1985 upbeat pop and dance song by Whitney Houston that became one of her signature hits and helped establish her as a major international star.
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E.
I Believe in You
"I Believe in You" is a track by Snoop Dogg from his 2002 studio album "Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss."
- 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: How Can I Be Sure Target entity description: "How Can I Be Sure" is a pop song originally recorded by The Young Rascals in 1967 that later became a hit single for David Cassidy in the early 1970s.
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A.
How Could It Be
"How Could It Be" is Eddie Murphy's 1985 debut studio album, blending R&B and pop with comedic elements and featuring the hit single "Party All the Time."
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B.
There You'll Be
"There You'll Be" is a power ballad by American country-pop singer Faith Hill, best known as the theme song from the 2001 film Pearl Harbor and one of her signature hits.
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C.
Can It Be All So Simple
"Can It Be All So Simple" is a reflective, soul-sampling track by Wu-Tang Clan that nostalgically recounts the struggles and aspirations of life in early-1990s New York.
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D.
How Will I Know
"How Will I Know" is a 1985 upbeat pop and dance song by Whitney Houston that became one of her signature hits and helped establish her as a major international star.
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E.
I Believe in You
"I Believe in You" is a track by Snoop Dogg from his 2002 studio album "Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | How Can I Be Sure? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | became a hit single for David Cassidy in the early 1970s ⓘ |
| composer | Felix Cavaliere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decadeOfOriginalRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| genre | pop ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion | David Cassidy version of How Can I Be Sure ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Eddie Brigati NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| madeFamousBy |
David Cassidy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Young Rascals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a 1967 pop hit for The Young Rascals
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being successfully covered by David Cassidy in the early 1970s ⓘ |
| originallyRecordedBy | The Young Rascals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| performer |
David Cassidy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Young Rascals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy | The Rascals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: How Can I Be Sure Description of subject: "How Can I Be Sure" is a pop song originally recorded by The Young Rascals in 1967 that later became a hit single for David Cassidy in the early 1970s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.