Maria (You Were the Only One)
E1023698
"Maria (You Were the Only One)" is a soulful early-1970s song recorded by Michael Jackson, featured as the B-side to his single "Got to Be There."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maria (You Were the Only One) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13166742 — 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: Maria (You Were the Only One) Context triple: [Got to Be There, Bside, Maria (You Were the Only One)]
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A.
Maria (song)
"Maria" is a well-known song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *The Sound of Music*, in which nuns humorously debate the troublesome yet endearing nature of the novice Maria.
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B.
The Only One
"The Only One" is a song by Lionel Richie from his hit 1983 album "Can't Slow Down."
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C.
The Only One
"The Only One" is a track from the 2006 album *Nightlife* by the American metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon.
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D.
The Only One
"The Only One" is a song best known as the B-side to Roy Orbison's 1989 hit single "You Got It."
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E.
Only You (And You Alone)
"Only You (And You Alone)" is a classic 1955 doo-wop ballad by The Platters that became one of their signature hits and a staple of early rock and roll.
- 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: Maria (You Were the Only One) Target entity description: "Maria (You Were the Only One)" is a soulful early-1970s song recorded by Michael Jackson, featured as the B-side to his single "Got to Be There."
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A.
Maria (song)
"Maria" is a well-known song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *The Sound of Music*, in which nuns humorously debate the troublesome yet endearing nature of the novice Maria.
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B.
The Only One
"The Only One" is a song best known as the B-side to Roy Orbison's 1989 hit single "You Got It."
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C.
The Only One
"The Only One" is a song by Lionel Richie from his hit 1983 album "Can't Slow Down."
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D.
The Only One
"The Only One" is a track from the 2006 album *Nightlife* by the American metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon.
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E.
Only You (And You Alone)
"Only You (And You Alone)" is a classic 1955 doo-wop ballad by The Platters that became one of their signature hits and a staple of early rock and roll.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Motown Records-era Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| B-sideOf | Got to Be There NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| decadeOfRelease | 1970s ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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soul ⓘ |
| hasLyricsLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | soul ballad ⓘ |
| hasPerformer | Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfSingle | Got to Be There NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the B-side to Michael Jackson's debut solo single Got to Be There ⓘ |
| performer | Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerGender | male ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseType | B-side ⓘ |
| vocalType | soul ⓘ |
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: Maria (You Were the Only One) Description of subject: "Maria (You Were the Only One)" is a soulful early-1970s song recorded by Michael Jackson, featured as the B-side to his single "Got to Be There."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.