The Things (That) I Used to Do
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"The Things (That) I Used to Do" is a blues standard originally written and recorded by Guitar Slim that has been widely covered by artists, including Stevie Ray Vaughan on his album "Couldn't Stand the Weather."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Things (That) I Used to Do canonical | 1 |
| The Things That I Used to Do | 1 |
| Things I Used to Do | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6502086 — 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: The Things (That) I Used to Do Context triple: [Couldn't Stand the Weather, hasTrack, The Things (That) I Used to Do]
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A.
“I Used To”
“I Used To” is a song featured on the album *Goodbye Ellston Avenue* by the punk rock band No Use for a Name.
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B.
The Way You Do the Things You Do
"The Way You Do the Things You Do" is a 1964 Motown hit single by The Temptations, celebrated as one of their breakthrough songs and a classic of the soul genre.
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C.
Do My Thing
"Do My Thing" is a song featured as a component track on the album "All of Me."
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D.
I Just Want to Have Something to Do
"I Just Want to Have Something to Do" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, featured on their 1978 album *Road to Ruin*.
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E.
The Things I Say
"The Things I Say" is a song by the indie folk-rock musician Joanna Newsom from her album "Divers."
- 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: The Things (That) I Used to Do Target entity description: "The Things (That) I Used to Do" is a blues standard originally written and recorded by Guitar Slim that has been widely covered by artists, including Stevie Ray Vaughan on his album "Couldn't Stand the Weather."
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A.
“I Used To”
“I Used To” is a song featured on the album *Goodbye Ellston Avenue* by the punk rock band No Use for a Name.
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B.
The Way You Do the Things You Do
"The Way You Do the Things You Do" is a 1964 Motown hit single by The Temptations, celebrated as one of their breakthrough songs and a classic of the soul genre.
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C.
Do My Thing
"Do My Thing" is a song featured as a component track on the album "All of Me."
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D.
I Just Want to Have Something to Do
"I Just Want to Have Something to Do" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, featured on their 1978 album *Road to Ruin*.
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E.
The Things I Say
"The Things I Say" is a song by the indie folk-rock musician Joanna Newsom from her album "Divers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| composer | Guitar Slim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coveredBy |
Albert Collins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
B.B. King NERFINISHED ⓘ Buddy Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ James Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimi Hendrix NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ Lowell Fulson NERFINISHED ⓘ Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | blues ⓘ |
| hasCoverOnAlbum | Couldn't Stand the Weather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion |
The Things That I Used to Do (Albert Collins recording)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Things That I Used to Do (B.B. King recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Buddy Guy and Junior Wells recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Buddy Guy recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Elmore James recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (James Brown recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Jimi Hendrix recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Johnny Winter recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Lowell Fulson recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Muddy Waters recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Ray Charles recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Things That I Used to Do (Stevie Ray Vaughan recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
Stevie Ray Vaughan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas blues NERFINISHED ⓘ electric blues ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Guitar Slim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCoverArtist |
Albert Collins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
B.B. King NERFINISHED ⓘ Buddy Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ James Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimi Hendrix NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ Lowell Fulson NERFINISHED ⓘ Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ Stevie Ray Vaughan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalArtist | Guitar Slim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Guitar Slim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Guitar Slim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Guitar Slim 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: The Things (That) I Used to Do Description of subject: "The Things (That) I Used to Do" is a blues standard originally written and recorded by Guitar Slim that has been widely covered by artists, including Stevie Ray Vaughan on his album "Couldn't Stand the Weather."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Things That I Used to Do
this entity surface form:
Things I Used to Do