Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?
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"Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?" is the fictional hit song written and performed by musician Larry Underwood in Stephen King's novel *The Stand*, symbolizing his brief rise to fame before the apocalyptic events unfold.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Baby, Can You Dig Your Man? canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9087844 — 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: Baby, Can You Dig Your Man? Context triple: [Larry Underwood, notableWorkInFiction, Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?]
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A.
Talking ’bout My Baby
"Talking ’bout My Baby" is a track by British DJ and producer Fatboy Slim, featured on his 2000 album "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars."
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B.
Don’t Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby)
“Don’t Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby)” is a 1963 pop song, best known as a hit single for the girl group The Cookies.
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C.
Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby
"Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby" is a rockabilly song written and first recorded by Carl Perkins that later became widely known through a cover by the Beatles.
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D.
Shoo-Shoo Baby
"Shoo-Shoo Baby" is a popular World War II–era swing song recorded by The Andrews Sisters that became one of their well-known hits.
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E.
I'm Your Baby Tonight
"I'm Your Baby Tonight" is a 1990 R&B and pop song by Whitney Houston that showcases a more urban, dance-oriented sound and became one of her major international hits.
- 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: Baby, Can You Dig Your Man? Target entity description: "Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?" is the fictional hit song written and performed by musician Larry Underwood in Stephen King's novel *The Stand*, symbolizing his brief rise to fame before the apocalyptic events unfold.
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A.
Talking ’bout My Baby
"Talking ’bout My Baby" is a track by British DJ and producer Fatboy Slim, featured on his 2000 album "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars."
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B.
Don’t Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby)
“Don’t Say Nothin’ Bad (About My Baby)” is a 1963 pop song, best known as a hit single for the girl group The Cookies.
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C.
Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby
"Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby" is a rockabilly song written and first recorded by Carl Perkins that later became widely known through a cover by the Beatles.
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D.
Shoo-Shoo Baby
"Shoo-Shoo Baby" is a popular World War II–era swing song recorded by The Andrews Sisters that became one of their well-known hits.
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E.
I'm Your Baby Tonight
"I'm Your Baby Tonight" is a 1990 R&B and pop song by Whitney Houston that showcases a more urban, dance-oriented sound and became one of her major international hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional song ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
1994 miniseries adaptation of The Stand
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2020 miniseries adaptation of The Stand ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Stand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Larry Underwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| copyrightHolderOfOriginalWork | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Larry Underwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Stand universe ⓘ |
| fictionalWorkFrom | The Stand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | novel The Stand ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| genre | pop music ⓘ |
| hasRealWorldRecording | yes (for screen adaptations) ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacterReference | Larry Underwood’s romantic partner or audience ("Baby") ⓘ |
| inUniverseChartSuccess | commercially successful record ⓘ |
| inUniverseCulturalImpact | recognizable pop hit before the superflu outbreak ⓘ |
| inUniverseStatus | hit song ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Larry Underwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contrast with post-apocalyptic collapse of society
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symbol of Larry Underwood's brief rise to fame ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | The Stand adaptations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Larry Underwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAsMotif |
theme of fame and responsibility
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theme of moral growth of Larry Underwood ⓘ |
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: Baby, Can You Dig Your Man? Description of subject: "Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?" is the fictional hit song written and performed by musician Larry Underwood in Stephen King's novel *The Stand*, symbolizing his brief rise to fame before the apocalyptic events unfold.
Referenced by (1)
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