Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
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"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" is a 1982 breakthrough pop ballad by Culture Club that became one of the band's signature hits and helped establish Boy George as an international star.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Do You Really Want to Hurt Me canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6280186 — 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 You Really Want to Hurt Me Context triple: [Boy George, notableWork, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me]
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A.
You Wreck Me
"You Wreck Me" is a rock song by Tom Petty from his 1994 album "Wildflowers," known for its driving guitars and anthemic chorus.
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B.
It Hurts So Bad
"It Hurts So Bad" is a song by American singer Linda Ronstadt, featured on her 1980 album "Mad Love."
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C.
It Only Hurts When I Cry
"It Only Hurts When I Cry" is a country song by Dwight Yoakam, known for its traditional honky-tonk style and emotional lyrics about heartbreak.
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D.
Don’t Hurt Yourself
"Don’t Hurt Yourself" is a fierce, rock-infused R&B track by Beyoncé featuring Jack White, known for its raw vocal delivery and themes of rage and betrayal.
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E.
Crash Into Me
"Crash Into Me" is a popular 1996 rock ballad by Dave Matthews Band, known for its intimate lyrics and prominent use of acoustic guitar.
- 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 You Really Want to Hurt Me Target entity description: "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" is a 1982 breakthrough pop ballad by Culture Club that became one of the band's signature hits and helped establish Boy George as an international star.
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A.
You Wreck Me
"You Wreck Me" is a rock song by Tom Petty from his 1994 album "Wildflowers," known for its driving guitars and anthemic chorus.
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B.
It Hurts So Bad
"It Hurts So Bad" is a song by American singer Linda Ronstadt, featured on her 1980 album "Mad Love."
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C.
It Only Hurts When I Cry
"It Only Hurts When I Cry" is a country song by Dwight Yoakam, known for its traditional honky-tonk style and emotional lyrics about heartbreak.
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D.
Don’t Hurt Yourself
"Don’t Hurt Yourself" is a fierce, rock-infused R&B track by Beyoncé featuring Jack White, known for its raw vocal delivery and themes of rage and betrayal.
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E.
Crash Into Me
"Crash Into Me" is a popular 1996 rock ballad by Dave Matthews Band, known for its intimate lyrics and prominent use of acoustic guitar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| albumBy | Culture Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| breakthroughHitFor | Culture Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustralia | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanada | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionFrance | 2 ⓘ |
| chartPositionGermany | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionIreland | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNewZealand | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNorway | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionSweden | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionSwitzerland | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUK | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUS | 2 ⓘ |
| chronologicalPosition | third single by Culture Club ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | 1980s pop ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave
ⓘ
pop ⓘ reggae-pop ⓘ |
| hasBPM | 92 ⓘ |
| hasTempo | slow ⓘ |
| hasTheme | romantic heartbreak ⓘ |
| helpedEstablishAsStar | Boy George NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Kissing to Be Clever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label |
Epic Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virgin Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 4:22 ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Chris Gabrin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicVideoSetting | courtroom ⓘ |
| nextSingle | Church of the Poison Mind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableInstrumentation |
reggae-influenced rhythm
ⓘ
sparse percussion ⓘ synthesizers ⓘ |
| performer | Culture Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousSingle | Time (Clock of the Heart) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Steve Levine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1982 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1982-09-06 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Culture Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Boy George NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | soulful ⓘ |
| writer |
Boy George
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jon Moss NERFINISHED ⓘ Mikey Craig NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Hay 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: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me Description of subject: "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" is a 1982 breakthrough pop ballad by Culture Club that became one of the band's signature hits and helped establish Boy George as an international star.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.