Cry Like a Baby
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"Cry Like a Baby" is a 1968 soul-pop hit song, best known in its recording by The Box Tops and co-written by Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cry Like a Baby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11603514 — 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: Cry Like a Baby Context triple: [Spooner Oldham, notableWork, Cry Like a Baby]
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A.
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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B.
Crybaby
"Crybaby" is a track from the 2015 album *Rainbow* by American singer-songwriter Kesha, blending pop and electronic elements with emotionally charged lyrics.
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C.
Crybaby
"Crybaby" is a soulful pop single by British singer Paloma Faith, known for its retro-inspired production and socially conscious lyrics.
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D.
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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E.
Cry to Me
"Cry to Me" is a soulful rhythm and blues song best known for Solomon Burke’s 1962 recording, which became a classic of early soul music.
- 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: Cry Like a Baby Target entity description: "Cry Like a Baby" is a 1968 soul-pop hit song, best known in its recording by The Box Tops and co-written by Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn.
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A.
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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B.
Crybaby
"Crybaby" is a track from the 2015 album *Rainbow* by American singer-songwriter Kesha, blending pop and electronic elements with emotionally charged lyrics.
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C.
Crybaby
"Crybaby" is a soulful pop single by British singer Paloma Faith, known for its retro-inspired production and socially conscious lyrics.
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D.
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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E.
Cry to Me
"Cry to Me" is a soulful rhythm and blues song best known for Solomon Burke’s 1962 recording, which became a classic of early soul music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | The Box Tops NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithStudio | American Sound Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartedIn |
Billboard Hot 100
NERFINISHED
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RPM Top Singles NERFINISHED ⓘ UK Singles Chart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
17 on UK Singles Chart
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2 on Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ 2 on RPM Top Singles (Canada) ⓘ |
| composer |
Dan Penn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spooner Oldham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followsSingle | Neon Rainbow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blue-eyed soul
ⓘ
pop ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| hasBside | The Door You Closed to Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy |
Bobby Sherman
NERFINISHED
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Cher NERFINISHED ⓘ Kim Carnes NERFINISHED ⓘ Petula Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hacienda Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
electric sitar
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horn section ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
heartbreak
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lost love ⓘ |
| includedIn | The Box Tops discography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Alex Chilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | approximately 2:30 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Dan Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicStyle | Memphis soul ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a major 1968 hit for The Box Tops ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Cry Like a Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | The Box Tops NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedesSingle | Choo Choo Train NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Dan Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1968 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Mala Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| writer |
Dan Penn
NERFINISHED
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Spooner Oldham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cry Like a Baby Description of subject: "Cry Like a Baby" is a 1968 soul-pop hit song, best known in its recording by The Box Tops and co-written by Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.