When I Need You
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"When I Need You" is a popular soft rock ballad from the 1970s, best known through Leo Sayer's hit recording and widely covered by various artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| When I Need You canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5534448 — 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: When I Need You Context triple: [Carole Bayer Sager, notableWork, When I Need You]
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A.
I Need You
"I Need You" is a song featured on the album "As I Am," likely contributing to the record's emotional and musical themes.
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B.
I Need You Tonight
"I Need You Tonight" is a hip hop single by Junior M.A.F.I.A., known for its smooth, R&B-influenced sound and association with the mid-1990s New York rap scene.
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C.
You Need Me
"You Need Me" is a song by Mariah Carey from her self-titled debut album, showcasing her early pop and R&B style and vocal prowess.
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D.
Lord I Need You
"Lord I Need You" is a gospel-influenced hip-hop song by Kanye West, notable for its emotional reflection on faith and relationships.
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E.
If I Needed Someone
"If I Needed Someone" is a George Harrison–penned Beatles song, influenced by The Byrds' jangly guitar sound, that appears on their 1965 album Rubber Soul.
- 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: When I Need You Target entity description: "When I Need You" is a popular soft rock ballad from the 1970s, best known through Leo Sayer's hit recording and widely covered by various artists.
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A.
I Need You
"I Need You" is a song featured on the album "As I Am," likely contributing to the record's emotional and musical themes.
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B.
I Need You Tonight
"I Need You Tonight" is a hip hop single by Junior M.A.F.I.A., known for its smooth, R&B-influenced sound and association with the mid-1990s New York rap scene.
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C.
You Need Me
"You Need Me" is a song by Mariah Carey from her self-titled debut album, showcasing her early pop and R&B style and vocal prowess.
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D.
Lord I Need You
"Lord I Need You" is a gospel-influenced hip-hop song by Kanye West, notable for its emotional reflection on faith and relationships.
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E.
If I Needed Someone
"If I Needed Someone" is a George Harrison–penned Beatles song, influenced by The Byrds' jangly guitar sound, that appears on their 1965 album Rubber Soul.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustraliaSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanadaRPMTopSingles | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSinglesChart | 1 ⓘ |
| composer | Albert Hammond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfChartSuccess |
Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| decade | 1970s ⓘ |
| era | classic 1970s pop ⓘ |
| genre |
pop ballad
ⓘ
soft rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy |
Celine Dion
NERFINISHED
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Cliff Richard NERFINISHED ⓘ Dana Winner NERFINISHED ⓘ Demis Roussos NERFINISHED ⓘ Engelbert Humperdinck NERFINISHED ⓘ James Ingram NERFINISHED ⓘ Julio Iglesias NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo Sayer (re-recordings) ⓘ Luther Vandross NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Clayderman NERFINISHED ⓘ Rod Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Bassey NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Westlife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Endless Flight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isHitSingleOf | Leo Sayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 4 minutes ⓘ |
| lyricist | Carole Bayer Sager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Leo Sayer's signature songs
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numerous cover versions by various artists ⓘ widespread international chart success ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy | Leo Sayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalArtist | Albert Hammond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Leo Sayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Richard Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Chrysalis Records
NERFINISHED
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Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| theme |
emotional support
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long-distance love ⓘ |
| writer | Albert Hammond 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: When I Need You Description of subject: "When I Need You" is a popular soft rock ballad from the 1970s, best known through Leo Sayer's hit recording and widely covered by various artists.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Let's Talk About Love