I Want You to Want Me
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"I Want You to Want Me" is a hit rock song by American band Cheap Trick, best known in its live 1979 version that became the group's signature track and a staple of classic rock radio.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Want You to Want Me canonical | 1 |
| I Want You to Want Me (Spanish cover) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6976396 — 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: I Want You to Want Me Context triple: [Cheap Trick, notableWork, I Want You to Want Me]
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A.
I Want You to Want Me
"I Want You to Want Me" is a country song by Dwight Yoakam, featured on his album "Tomorrow’s Sounds Today."
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B.
She Wants Me
She Wants Me is a 2012 independent romantic comedy film starring Josh Gad and Hilary Duff, produced by Mark Burg.
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C.
I Really Want You
"I Really Want You" is a song by James Blunt featured on his 2007 studio album "All the Lost Souls."
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D.
I Want You
"I Want You" is a 1976 soul and R&B album by Marvin Gaye, noted for its lush production, sensual themes, and influence on the quiet storm genre.
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E.
I Want You
"I Want You" is a neo-soul/R&B song by Erykah Badu featured on her 2003 album *Worldwide Underground*.
- 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: I Want You to Want Me Target entity description: "I Want You to Want Me" is a hit rock song by American band Cheap Trick, best known in its live 1979 version that became the group's signature track and a staple of classic rock radio.
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A.
I Want You to Want Me
"I Want You to Want Me" is a country song by Dwight Yoakam, featured on his album "Tomorrow’s Sounds Today."
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B.
She Wants Me
She Wants Me is a 2012 independent romantic comedy film starring Josh Gad and Hilary Duff, produced by Mark Burg.
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C.
I Really Want You
"I Really Want You" is a song by James Blunt featured on his 2007 studio album "All the Lost Souls."
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D.
I Want You
"I Want You" is a 1976 soul and R&B album by Marvin Gaye, noted for its lush production, sensual themes, and influence on the quiet storm genre.
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E.
I Want You
"I Want You" is a neo-soul/R&B song by Erykah Badu featured on her 2003 album *Worldwide Underground*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | In Color NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Cheap Trick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | hit single ⓘ |
| composer | Rick Nielsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1970s ⓘ |
| genre |
power pop
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasAudienceParticipation | call-and-response sections in live performances ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
association with Cheap Trick’s image
ⓘ
enduring popularity ⓘ |
| hasRecordingType |
live version
ⓘ
studio version ⓘ |
| hasReputation | crowd-pleasing live song ⓘ |
| hasStyle | melodic rock ⓘ |
| hasTempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
| includedOn | Cheap Trick at Budokan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isStapleOf | classic rock radio ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| liveAlbum | Cheap Trick at Budokan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricist | Rick Nielsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | live 1979 version ⓘ |
| notableLiveVersionCountry | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLiveVersionRecordedAt | Nippon Budokan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLiveVersionReleaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| notableVersion | live version ⓘ |
| originalReleaseType | studio recording ⓘ |
| partOf | In Color NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedIn | concerts worldwide ⓘ |
| performer | Cheap Trick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerMember |
Bun E. Carlos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rick Nielsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Zander NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Petersson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| radioFormat |
album-oriented rock
ⓘ
classic rock ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Cheap Trick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Cheap Trick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Rick Nielsen 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: I Want You to Want Me Description of subject: "I Want You to Want Me" is a hit rock song by American band Cheap Trick, best known in its live 1979 version that became the group's signature track and a staple of classic rock radio.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
I Want You to Want Me (Spanish cover)