You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)
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"You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)" is a 1976 Grammy-winning pop and R&B duet by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. that became their signature hit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show) | 4 |
| You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2817860 — 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: You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show) Context triple: [Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., notableWork, You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)]
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A.
Everyone Says I Love You
Everyone Says I Love You is a 1996 musical romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, featuring an ensemble cast and set primarily in New York, Paris, and Venice.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Don’t Rain on My Parade
"Don’t Rain on My Parade" is a signature show tune from the musical *Funny Girl*, famously performed by Barbra Streisand and celebrated as an anthem of bold self-assertion.
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E.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
- 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: You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show) Target entity description: "You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)" is a 1976 Grammy-winning pop and R&B duet by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. that became their signature hit.
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A.
Everyone Says I Love You
Everyone Says I Love You is a 1996 musical romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, featuring an ensemble cast and set primarily in New York, Paris, and Venice.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Don’t Rain on My Parade
"Don’t Rain on My Parade" is a signature show tune from the musical *Funny Girl*, famously performed by Barbra Streisand and celebrated as an anthem of bold self-assertion.
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E.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1970s ⓘ |
| duetWith |
Billy Davis Jr.
ⓘ
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. ⓘ
surface form:
Marilyn McCoo
|
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| GrammyCategory | Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ⓘ |
| isSignatureSongOf |
Billy Davis Jr.
ⓘ
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. ⓘ
surface form:
Marilyn McCoo
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| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a Grammy-winning pop and R&B duet
ⓘ
being the signature hit of Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. ⓘ |
| performer |
Billy Davis Jr.
ⓘ
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. ⓘ
surface form:
Marilyn McCoo
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| releaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
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: You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show) Description of subject: "You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)" is a 1976 Grammy-winning pop and R&B duet by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. that became their signature hit.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)
this entity surface form:
You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)
this entity surface form:
You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)
this entity surface form:
You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)