If I Only Had the Nerve
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"If I Only Had the Nerve" is a comic musical number from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz* in which the Cowardly Lion expresses his desire for courage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| If I Only Had the Nerve canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172449 — 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: If I Only Had the Nerve Context triple: [If I Only Had a Brain, parallelSongInFilm, If I Only Had the Nerve]
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A.
If I Only Had a Brain
"If I Only Had a Brain" is a classic, whimsical song from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, sung by the Scarecrow as he longs for intelligence and a better mind.
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B.
I Have Nothing
"I Have Nothing" is a song powerfully performed by Whitney Houston, best known from the soundtrack of the 1992 film "The Bodyguard."
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C.
I Didn’t Know My Own Strength
"I Didn’t Know My Own Strength" is an inspirational ballad by Whitney Houston about resilience and overcoming personal struggles.
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D.
I (Who Have Nothing)
"I (Who Have Nothing)" is a dramatic soul ballad popularized by Ben E. King, known for its powerful vocals and themes of unrequited love and emotional desperation.
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E.
But Not for Me
"But Not for Me" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded by numerous artists since its 1930 debut.
- 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: If I Only Had the Nerve Target entity description: "If I Only Had the Nerve" is a comic musical number from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz* in which the Cowardly Lion expresses his desire for courage.
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A.
If I Only Had a Brain
"If I Only Had a Brain" is a classic, whimsical song from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, sung by the Scarecrow as he longs for intelligence and a better mind.
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B.
I Have Nothing
"I Have Nothing" is a song powerfully performed by Whitney Houston, best known from the soundtrack of the 1992 film "The Bodyguard."
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C.
I Didn’t Know My Own Strength
"I Didn’t Know My Own Strength" is an inspirational ballad by Whitney Houston about resilience and overcoming personal struggles.
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D.
I (Who Have Nothing)
"I (Who Have Nothing)" is a dramatic soul ballad popularized by Ben E. King, known for its powerful vocals and themes of unrequited love and emotional desperation.
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E.
But Not for Me
"But Not for Me" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded by numerous artists since its 1930 debut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: If I Only Had the Nerve Description of subject: "If I Only Had the Nerve" is a comic musical number from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz* in which the Cowardly Lion expresses his desire for courage.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.