Footsteps
E1039801
"Footsteps" is a popular song performed by American singer Steve Lawrence that became one of his best-known hits in the early 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Footsteps canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13399976 — 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: Footsteps Context triple: [Steve Lawrence, notableWork, Footsteps]
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A.
Footsteps
"Footsteps" is a track from the band Nightlife, known for its atmospheric, emotionally driven sound within their alternative rock style.
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B.
Footprints
"Footprints" is a widely influential jazz composition by saxophonist Wayne Shorter, known for its modal harmony and iconic status in the modern jazz repertoire.
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C.
Footfalls
"Footfalls" is a one-woman play by Samuel Beckett, renowned for its minimalist staging and intense psychological focus, famously performed by actress Billie Whitelaw.
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D.
The Stairs
"The Stairs" is a renowned musical cue from Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film "Psycho," closely associated with the film’s mounting suspense and terror.
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E.
Step Off
"Step Off" is a 1984 hip hop track by Melle Mel (often credited as Grandmaster Melle Mel), known for its battle-ready lyrics and classic old-school rap style.
- 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: Footsteps Target entity description: "Footsteps" is a popular song performed by American singer Steve Lawrence that became one of his best-known hits in the early 1960s.
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A.
Footsteps
"Footsteps" is a track from the band Nightlife, known for its atmospheric, emotionally driven sound within their alternative rock style.
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B.
Footprints
"Footprints" is a widely influential jazz composition by saxophonist Wayne Shorter, known for its modal harmony and iconic status in the modern jazz repertoire.
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C.
Footfalls
"Footfalls" is a one-woman play by Samuel Beckett, renowned for its minimalist staging and intense psychological focus, famously performed by actress Billie Whitelaw.
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D.
The Stairs
"The Stairs" is a renowned musical cue from Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film "Psycho," closely associated with the film’s mounting suspense and terror.
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E.
Step Off
"Step Off" is a 1984 hip hop track by Melle Mel (often credited as Grandmaster Melle Mel), known for its battle-ready lyrics and classic old-school rap style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| chartedIn |
Billboard Hot 100
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Canada ⓘ UK Singles Chart ⓘ |
| chartingArtist | Steve Lawrence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionFormat | physical single ⓘ |
| era | early 1960s ⓘ |
| format | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| genre |
easy listening
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasBside | You Don’t Know ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
commercial hit
ⓘ
orchestral arrangement ⓘ romantic theme ⓘ |
| hasPerformer | Steve Lawrence ⓘ |
| hasPerformerNationality | American ⓘ |
| isHitSingleOf | Steve Lawrence ⓘ |
| isOneOfBestKnownSongsOf | Steve Lawrence ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | recorded music ⓘ |
| peakPositionOnBillboardHot100 | 7 ⓘ |
| peakPositionOnUKSinglesChart | 4 ⓘ |
| performer | Steve Lawrence ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
ABC-Paramount Records
ⓘ
linked to:
ABC Records
|
| releaseYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| side | A-side ⓘ |
| vocalType | male vocal ⓘ |
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: Footsteps Description of subject: "Footsteps" is a popular song performed by American singer Steve Lawrence that became one of his best-known hits in the early 1960s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.