I’ve Got the World on a String
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"I’ve Got the World on a String" is a popular American standard from the Great American Songbook, best known through classic jazz and pop vocal performances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I’ve Got the World on a String canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2804168 — 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’ve Got the World on a String Context triple: [Harold Arlen, notableWork, I’ve Got the World on a String]
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A.
Swinging on a Star
"Swinging on a Star" is a popular 1944 American song, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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B.
I Get a Kick Out of You
"I Get a Kick Out of You" is a classic popular song from the 1934 Broadway musical *Anything Goes*, renowned for its witty lyrics and enduring status as a jazz and pop standard.
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C.
Sittin’ on Top of the World
"Sittin’ on Top of the World" is a hit song by Nigerian artist Burna Boy that blends Afrobeats with contemporary pop and hip-hop influences.
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D.
Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded and performed since its debut in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.
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E.
One O’Clock Jump
One O’Clock Jump is a classic 1937 swing-era jazz instrumental and signature tune of the Count Basie Orchestra, renowned for its riff-based structure and driving rhythm.
- 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’ve Got the World on a String Target entity description: "I’ve Got the World on a String" is a popular American standard from the Great American Songbook, best known through classic jazz and pop vocal performances.
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A.
Swinging on a Star
"Swinging on a Star" is a popular 1944 American song, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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B.
I Get a Kick Out of You
"I Get a Kick Out of You" is a classic popular song from the 1934 Broadway musical *Anything Goes*, renowned for its witty lyrics and enduring status as a jazz and pop standard.
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C.
Sittin’ on Top of the World
"Sittin’ on Top of the World" is a hit song by Nigerian artist Burna Boy that blends Afrobeats with contemporary pop and hip-hop influences.
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D.
Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded and performed since its debut in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.
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E.
One O’Clock Jump
One O’Clock Jump is a classic 1937 swing-era jazz instrumental and signature tune of the Count Basie Orchestra, renowned for its riff-based structure and driving rhythm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American standard
ⓘ
jazz standard ⓘ popular song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | Harold Arlen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| describedAs |
American standard
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classic jazz and pop vocal song ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceContext | Cotton Club Parade ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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traditional pop ⓘ |
| isPartOfRepertoireOf |
jazz vocalists
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traditional pop singers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ted Koehler ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Ted Koehler ⓘ |
| musicBy | Harold Arlen ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy |
Bing Crosby
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Cab Calloway ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ Michael Bublé ⓘ Perry Como ⓘ |
| partOf | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| theme |
being in love
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optimism ⓘ romantic happiness ⓘ |
| typicalEnsemble |
big band
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jazz combo ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | crooner ⓘ |
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’ve Got the World on a String Description of subject: "I’ve Got the World on a String" is a popular American standard from the Great American Songbook, best known through classic jazz and pop vocal performances.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.