You Really Got Me
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"You Really Got Me" is a pioneering 1964 rock song by the Kinks, famous for its distorted guitar riff and often cited as a key influence on hard rock and early heavy metal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| You Really Got Me canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9374804 — 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: You Really Got Me Context triple: [The Kinks, notableWork, You Really Got Me]
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A.
Sunshine of Your Love
"Sunshine of Your Love" is a classic 1967 rock song by the British band Cream, renowned for its iconic guitar riff and status as one of the defining tracks of the late 1960s.
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B.
Baba O'Riley
"Baba O'Riley" is a classic rock song by The Who, renowned for its iconic synthesizer intro and anthemic chorus often mistaken for being titled "Teenage Wasteland."
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C.
The Wind Cries Mary
"The Wind Cries Mary" is a 1967 blues-influenced rock ballad by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, known for its lyrical melancholy and expressive guitar work.
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D.
Tumbling Dice
"Tumbling Dice" is a 1972 rock song by The Rolling Stones, known for its laid-back groove, gospel-tinged backing vocals, and prominent place on their acclaimed album Exile on Main St.
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E.
Hells Bells
"Hells Bells" is a hard rock song by Australian band AC/DC, known for its ominous bell tolling intro and status as one of the group's most iconic tracks.
- 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: You Really Got Me Target entity description: "You Really Got Me" is a pioneering 1964 rock song by the Kinks, famous for its distorted guitar riff and often cited as a key influence on hard rock and early heavy metal.
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A.
Sunshine of Your Love
"Sunshine of Your Love" is a classic 1967 rock song by the British band Cream, renowned for its iconic guitar riff and status as one of the defining tracks of the late 1960s.
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B.
Baba O'Riley
"Baba O'Riley" is a classic rock song by The Who, renowned for its iconic synthesizer intro and anthemic chorus often mistaken for being titled "Teenage Wasteland."
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C.
The Wind Cries Mary
"The Wind Cries Mary" is a 1967 blues-influenced rock ballad by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, known for its lyrical melancholy and expressive guitar work.
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D.
Tumbling Dice
"Tumbling Dice" is a 1972 rock song by The Rolling Stones, known for its laid-back groove, gospel-tinged backing vocals, and prominent place on their acclaimed album Exile on Main St.
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E.
Hells Bells
"Hells Bells" is a hard rock song by Australian band AC/DC, known for its ominous bell tolling intro and status as one of the group's most iconic tracks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | The Kinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | British Invasion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanada | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 7 ⓘ |
| composer | Ray Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverVersionReleaseYearByVanHalen | 1978 ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
proto‑heavy metal ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| guitaristOnRecording | Dave Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBside | It’s Alright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy | Van Halen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKey | F major ⓘ |
| hasLiveStapleStatusFor | The Kinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicalElement |
power chords
ⓘ
simple riff-based structure ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature | distorted power‑chord guitar riff ⓘ |
| hasOpeningLyric | Girl, you really got me goin’ ⓘ |
| hasRecognition |
cited as an influence on early heavy metal
ⓘ
considered a pioneering hard rock recording ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum |
Kinks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kinks-Size NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
hard rock
ⓘ
heavy metal ⓘ |
| isBreakthroughHitFor | The Kinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOnList | Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| labelCatalogNumberUK | Pye 7N 15673 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Ray Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 2:13 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ray Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMedium | mono recording ⓘ |
| performer | The Kinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performingArtistNationality | British ⓘ |
| producer | Shel Talmy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedAt | IBC Studios, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1964 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Pye Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reprise Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1964-08-04 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| tempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
| timeSignature | 4/4 ⓘ |
| writer | Ray Davies 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: You Really Got Me Description of subject: "You Really Got Me" is a pioneering 1964 rock song by the Kinks, famous for its distorted guitar riff and often cited as a key influence on hard rock and early heavy metal.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.