“Cryin’”
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“Cryin’” is a power ballad by the American glam metal band Vixen, recognized as one of their signature songs from the late 1980s rock scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| “Cryin’” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10572413 — 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: “Cryin’” Context triple: [Vixen, notableSong, “Cryin’”]
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A.
Cryin'
"Cryin'" is a 1993 power ballad by American rock band Aerosmith, known for its blend of hard rock and emotional lyrics and its iconic music video featuring Alicia Silverstone.
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B.
"Too Late to Cry"
"Too Late to Cry" is the first studio album by American bluegrass and country singer-fiddler Alison Krauss, showcasing her early blend of traditional and contemporary acoustic music.
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C.
I’m Cryin’
"I’m Cryin’" is a blues-rock song by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble from their influential 1983 debut album "Texas Flood."
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D.
Cry Baby
"Cry Baby" is a powerful blues-rock song made famous by Janis Joplin, showcasing her raw, emotive vocal style and becoming one of her signature performances.
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E.
Girls Don't Cry
"Girls Don't Cry" is a song that appears as the B-side to the Pet Shop Boys single "I'm with Stupid."
- 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: “Cryin’” Target entity description: “Cryin’” is a power ballad by the American glam metal band Vixen, recognized as one of their signature songs from the late 1980s rock scene.
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A.
Cryin'
"Cryin'" is a 1993 power ballad by American rock band Aerosmith, known for its blend of hard rock and emotional lyrics and its iconic music video featuring Alicia Silverstone.
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B.
"Too Late to Cry"
"Too Late to Cry" is the first studio album by American bluegrass and country singer-fiddler Alison Krauss, showcasing her early blend of traditional and contemporary acoustic music.
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C.
I’m Cryin’
"I’m Cryin’" is a blues-rock song by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble from their influential 1983 debut album "Texas Flood."
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D.
Cry Baby
"Cry Baby" is a powerful blues-rock song made famous by Janis Joplin, showcasing her raw, emotive vocal style and becoming one of her signature performances.
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E.
Girls Don't Cry
"Girls Don't Cry" is a song that appears as the B-side to the Pet Shop Boys single "I'm with Stupid."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Vixen (band) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bassBy | Share Pedersen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
Billboard Hot 100 number 22
ⓘ
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number 11 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drumsBy | Roxy Petrucci NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | late 1980s rock scene ⓘ |
| format |
12-inch single
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7-inch single ⓘ CD single ⓘ cassette single ⓘ |
| genre |
glam metal
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hard rock ⓘ power ballad ⓘ |
| guitarsBy | Jan Kuehnemund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBside | Charmed Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersions | true ⓘ |
| hasLivePerformances | true ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | true ⓘ |
| hasType | rock ballad ⓘ |
| includedIn | Vixen compilation albums ⓘ |
| isPartOfTourSetlistFor | Vixen tours ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalsBy | Janet Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 4:02 ⓘ |
| musicVideoPerformer | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Vixen's best-known songs
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late 1980s rock radio airplay ⓘ |
| originalMedium | studio recording ⓘ |
| partOf | Vixen (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
David Cole
NERFINISHED
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Rick Neigher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Vixen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
EMI
ⓘ
EMI Manhattan Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1988 ⓘ |
| singleReleaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| writer |
Jan Kuehnemund
NERFINISHED
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Jeff Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Sue Ennis 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: “Cryin’” Description of subject: “Cryin’” is a power ballad by the American glam metal band Vixen, recognized as one of their signature songs from the late 1980s rock scene.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.