Maybe It Was Memphis
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"Maybe It Was Memphis" is a popular country song, best known as one of Pam Tillis's signature hits from the early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maybe It Was Memphis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6351619 — 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: Maybe It Was Memphis Context triple: [Pam Tillis, notableWork, Maybe It Was Memphis]
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A.
Dusty in Memphis
Dusty in Memphis is a critically acclaimed 1969 soul-pop album by British singer Dusty Springfield, renowned for its lush production and her emotive vocal performances.
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B.
3000 Miles to Graceland
3000 Miles to Graceland is a 2001 action-crime film about a group of criminals who attempt a Las Vegas casino heist during an Elvis impersonator convention.
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C.
Midnight Train to Memphis
"Midnight Train to Memphis" is a Southern rock/country song best known from Chris Stapleton’s 2017 album *From A Room: Volume 2*, featuring gritty vocals and blues-infused instrumentation.
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D.
Some Might Say
"Some Might Say" is a 1995 Britpop anthem by the English rock band Oasis, known as one of their major hit singles and a defining track of their early career.
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E.
My Sunny Tennessee
"My Sunny Tennessee" is a popular early 20th-century American song, best known today for its inclusion in the 1950 musical film *Three Little Words*.
- 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: Maybe It Was Memphis Target entity description: "Maybe It Was Memphis" is a popular country song, best known as one of Pam Tillis's signature hits from the early 1990s.
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A.
Dusty in Memphis
Dusty in Memphis is a critically acclaimed 1969 soul-pop album by British singer Dusty Springfield, renowned for its lush production and her emotive vocal performances.
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B.
3000 Miles to Graceland
3000 Miles to Graceland is a 2001 action-crime film about a group of criminals who attempt a Las Vegas casino heist during an Elvis impersonator convention.
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C.
Midnight Train to Memphis
"Midnight Train to Memphis" is a Southern rock/country song best known from Chris Stapleton’s 2017 album *From A Room: Volume 2*, featuring gritty vocals and blues-infused instrumentation.
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D.
Some Might Say
"Some Might Say" is a 1995 Britpop anthem by the English rock band Oasis, known as one of their major hit singles and a defining track of their early career.
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E.
My Sunny Tennessee
"My Sunny Tennessee" is a popular early 20th-century American song, best known today for its inclusion in the 1950 musical film *Three Little Words*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
Billboard Hot Country Songs number 3
ⓘ
RPM Country Tracks (Canada) number 1 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBy | Blue Rose Is NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | One of Those Things NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | country music ⓘ |
| hasBSide | Draggin' My Chains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
7-inch single
ⓘ
CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | Maybe It Was Memphis (music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Pam Tillis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 4:00 ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Steven Goldmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Country Music Association Award for Single of the Year
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Pam Tillis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalDemoRecordedBy | Pam Tillis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Put Yourself in My Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Pam Tillis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Ed Seay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Worley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Arista Nashville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1991-10 ⓘ |
| setIn | Memphis, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme | romantic nostalgia ⓘ |
| writer | Michael Anderson 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: Maybe It Was Memphis Description of subject: "Maybe It Was Memphis" is a popular country song, best known as one of Pam Tillis's signature hits from the early 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.