I Don't Want to Be
E290010
"I Don't Want to Be" is a 2003 pop-rock song by Gavin DeGraw best known as the theme song for the television series One Tree Hill.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Don't Want to Be canonical | 13 |
| I Don't Want to Be (Stripped) | 1 |
| I Don't Want to Be (song) | 1 |
| I Don’t Want to Be | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2693803 — 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: I Don't Want to Be Context triple: [Gavin DeGraw, notableWork, I Don't Want to Be]
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A.
I Wanna Be
"I Wanna Be" is a song featured on the collaborative blues-rock album "Riding with the King" by B.B. King and Eric Clapton.
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B.
I Want You
"I Want You" is a soulful hip-hop track by Common, produced by will.i.am, known for its smooth, romantic vibe and lush, sample-based instrumentation.
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C.
I Want You
"I Want You" is a fast-paced, lyrically intricate love song by Bob Dylan, featured on his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.
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D.
She Wants Me
She Wants Me is a 2012 independent romantic comedy film starring Josh Gad and Hilary Duff, produced by Mark Burg.
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E.
I Don’t Know
"I Don’t Know" is a song by Paul McCartney that appears on his 2018 studio album Egypt Station.
- 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: I Don't Want to Be Target entity description: "I Don't Want to Be" is a 2003 pop-rock song by Gavin DeGraw best known as the theme song for the television series One Tree Hill.
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A.
I Wanna Be
"I Wanna Be" is a song featured on the collaborative blues-rock album "Riding with the King" by B.B. King and Eric Clapton.
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B.
I Want You
"I Want You" is a soulful hip-hop track by Common, produced by will.i.am, known for its smooth, romantic vibe and lush, sample-based instrumentation.
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C.
I Want You
"I Want You" is a fast-paced, lyrically intricate love song by Bob Dylan, featured on his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.
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D.
She Wants Me
She Wants Me is a 2012 independent romantic comedy film starring Josh Gad and Hilary Duff, produced by Mark Burg.
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E.
I Don’t Know
"I Don’t Know" is a song by Paul McCartney that appears on his 2018 studio album Egypt Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Gavin DeGraw ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
The CW
ⓘ
The WB ⓘ television drama series ⓘ |
| associatedWork | One Tree Hill ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 2000s ⓘ |
| genre | pop rock ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | pop rock ⓘ |
| hasNotability | widely recognized as Gavin DeGraw's signature song ⓘ |
| hasTitle | I Don't Want to Be self-link ⓘ |
| hasType | theme song ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Gavin DeGraw ⓘ |
| medium | audio recording ⓘ |
| musicBy | Gavin DeGraw ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the theme song for the television series One Tree Hill ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedAs | single ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gavin DeGraw
ⓘ
surface form:
Gavin DeGraw discography
|
| performer | Gavin DeGraw ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Gavin DeGraw ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| themeSongOf | One Tree Hill ⓘ |
| usedAs | television series theme song ⓘ |
| writer | Gavin DeGraw ⓘ |
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: I Don't Want to Be Description of subject: "I Don't Want to Be" is a 2003 pop-rock song by Gavin DeGraw best known as the theme song for the television series One Tree Hill.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
I Don't Want to Be (song)
subject surface form:
Gavin DeGraw
this entity surface form:
I Don’t Want to Be
subject surface form:
Chariot
subject surface form:
Chariot
subject surface form:
Chariot
subject surface form:
Chariot
this entity surface form:
I Don't Want to Be (Stripped)