Things Are Looking Up
E224449
"Things Are Looking Up" is a popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film musical *A Damsel in Distress*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Things Are Looking Up canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2007927 — 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: Things Are Looking Up Context triple: [A Damsel in Distress, featuresSong, Things Are Looking Up]
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A.
Down on the Upside
Down on the Upside is a 1996 studio album by American rock band Soundgarden that blends heavy alternative rock with more experimental and melodic elements.
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B.
Up in the World
Up in the World is a 1956 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a window cleaner who becomes entangled in chaotic misadventures while working at a wealthy country estate.
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C.
Turn It Up
"Turn It Up" is a song from Brandy's 2004 R&B album "Afrodisiac," showcasing her smooth vocals over contemporary, Timbaland-influenced production.
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D.
Don’t Look Down
"Don’t Look Down" is a song featured on Jennifer Hudson’s 2011 studio album "I Remember Me."
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E.
Get on Up
Get on Up is a 2014 biographical drama film about the life and career of soul music legend James Brown.
- 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: Things Are Looking Up Target entity description: "Things Are Looking Up" is a popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film musical *A Damsel in Distress*.
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A.
Down on the Upside
Down on the Upside is a 1996 studio album by American rock band Soundgarden that blends heavy alternative rock with more experimental and melodic elements.
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B.
Up in the World
Up in the World is a 1956 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a window cleaner who becomes entangled in chaotic misadventures while working at a wealthy country estate.
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C.
Turn It Up
"Turn It Up" is a song from Brandy's 2004 R&B album "Afrodisiac," showcasing her smooth vocals over contemporary, Timbaland-influenced production.
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D.
Don’t Look Down
"Don’t Look Down" is a song featured on Jennifer Hudson’s 2011 studio album "I Remember Me."
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E.
Get on Up
Get on Up is a 2014 biographical drama film about the life and career of soul music legend James Brown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
popular song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hollywood musical film ⓘ |
| composer | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| featuredInFilm | A Damsel in Distress ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| genre |
popular music
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| musicBy | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| originalMedium | film musical ⓘ |
| partOf | soundtrack of A Damsel in Distress ⓘ |
| performer | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| writer |
George Gershwin
ⓘ
Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
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: Things Are Looking Up Description of subject: "Things Are Looking Up" is a popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film musical *A Damsel in Distress*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.