It’s Only a Paper Moon
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"It’s Only a Paper Moon" is a popular 1933 jazz and pop standard, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg and Billy Rose, that has been widely recorded and performed over decades.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| It's Only a Paper Moon | 3 |
| It’s Only a Paper Moon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2804169 — 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: It’s Only a Paper Moon Context triple: [Harold Arlen, notableWork, It’s Only a Paper Moon]
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A.
Paper Moon
"Paper Moon" is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, celebrated for its Depression-era setting and the Oscar-winning performance of child actress Tatum O'Neal.
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B.
My Blue Heaven
My Blue Heaven is a 1950 American musical comedy film best known for its lighthearted story and performances by stars like Jane Wyatt.
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C.
A Fine Romance
"A Fine Romance" is a popular 1936 jazz standard by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film Swing Time.
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D.
The Desert Song
The Desert Song is a popular operetta, frequently adapted for film and stage, known for its romantic adventure set in the Moroccan desert and its memorable title song.
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E.
Radio Days
Radio Days is a nostalgic 1987 Woody Allen film that affectionately chronicles a Jewish-American family’s life in 1940s New York through the golden age of radio.
- 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: It’s Only a Paper Moon Target entity description: "It’s Only a Paper Moon" is a popular 1933 jazz and pop standard, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg and Billy Rose, that has been widely recorded and performed over decades.
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A.
Paper Moon
"Paper Moon" is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, celebrated for its Depression-era setting and the Oscar-winning performance of child actress Tatum O'Neal.
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B.
My Blue Heaven
My Blue Heaven is a 1950 American musical comedy film best known for its lighthearted story and performances by stars like Jane Wyatt.
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C.
A Fine Romance
"A Fine Romance" is a popular 1936 jazz standard by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film Swing Time.
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D.
The Desert Song
The Desert Song is a popular operetta, frequently adapted for film and stage, known for its romantic adventure set in the Moroccan desert and its memorable title song.
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E.
Radio Days
Radio Days is a nostalgic 1987 Woody Allen film that affectionately chronicles a Jewish-American family’s life in 1940s New York through the golden age of radio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
ⓘ
pop standard ⓘ song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Paper Moon ⓘ |
| composer | Harold Arlen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decadeOfOrigin | 1930s ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasComposerRole |
Harold Arlen
ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Arlen was a prominent American songwriter
|
| hasCulturalStatus | American popular music standard ⓘ |
| hasForm | popular song ⓘ |
| hasLyricistRole |
Billy Rose
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surface form:
Billy Rose was a prominent American lyricist and impresario
Yip Harburg was a prominent American lyricist ⓘ |
| hasLyricLine |
But it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me
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It's only a paper moon ⓘ |
| hasLyricsBy |
Billy Rose
ⓘ
E. Y. Harburg ⓘ
surface form:
Yip Harburg
|
| hasMusicBy | Harold Arlen ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Benny Goodman
ⓘ
Billie Holiday ⓘ Cliff Edwards ⓘ Doris Day ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ James Taylor ⓘ Kaye Ballard ⓘ Mel Tormé ⓘ Nat King Cole ⓘ Paul Whiteman ⓘ Nat King Cole Trio ⓘ
surface form:
The Nat King Cole Trio
Tony Bennett ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
love
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make-believe ⓘ romantic illusion ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
It’s Only a Paper Moon
self-link
ⓘ
surface form:
It's Only a Paper Moon
|
| isJazzStandardSince | 1930s ⓘ |
| isStandardIn | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| isWidelyRecorded | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Billy Rose
ⓘ
E. Y. Harburg ⓘ
surface form:
Yip Harburg
|
| publicationYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| usedIn | film and television soundtracks ⓘ |
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: It’s Only a Paper Moon Description of subject: "It’s Only a Paper Moon" is a popular 1933 jazz and pop standard, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg and Billy Rose, that has been widely recorded and performed over decades.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
It's Only a Paper Moon
subject surface form:
It's Only a Paper Moon
this entity surface form:
It's Only a Paper Moon
this entity surface form:
It's Only a Paper Moon