Just Once in My Life (The Righteous Brothers hit)
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"Just Once in My Life" is a 1965 pop ballad recorded by the Righteous Brothers, co-written by Gerry Goffin, that became one of their notable charting hits following "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Just Once in My Life (The Righteous Brothers hit) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2876652 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Just Once in My Life (The Righteous Brothers hit) Context triple: [Gerry Goffin, notableWork, Just Once in My Life (The Righteous Brothers hit)]
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A.
For Once in My Life
"For Once in My Life" is a classic Motown song most famously recorded by Stevie Wonder, celebrated for its soulful vocals and uplifting, optimistic lyrics.
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B.
Just One of Those Things
"Just One of Those Things" is a popular jazz standard from the Great American Songbook, widely recorded by vocalists and instrumentalists since its debut in the 1930s.
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C.
I Say a Little Prayer
"I Say a Little Prayer" is a classic soul-pop song, originally written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, that became one of Aretha Franklin’s signature hits.
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D.
Till There Was You
"Till There Was You" is a romantic ballad from the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man that later became widely known through a popular cover by The Beatles.
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E.
Someday We’ll Be Together
"Someday We’ll Be Together" is a 1969 soul ballad best known as the final single Diana Ross recorded with The Supremes before launching her solo career.
- 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: Just Once in My Life (The Righteous Brothers hit) Target entity description: "Just Once in My Life" is a 1965 pop ballad recorded by the Righteous Brothers, co-written by Gerry Goffin, that became one of their notable charting hits following "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'."
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A.
For Once in My Life
"For Once in My Life" is a classic Motown song most famously recorded by Stevie Wonder, celebrated for its soulful vocals and uplifting, optimistic lyrics.
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B.
Just One of Those Things
"Just One of Those Things" is a popular jazz standard from the Great American Songbook, widely recorded by vocalists and instrumentalists since its debut in the 1930s.
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C.
I Say a Little Prayer
"I Say a Little Prayer" is a classic soul-pop song, originally written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, that became one of Aretha Franklin’s signature hits.
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D.
Till There Was You
"Till There Was You" is a romantic ballad from the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man that later became widely known through a popular cover by The Beatles.
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E.
Someday We’ll Be Together
"Someday We’ll Be Together" is a 1969 soul ballad best known as the final single Diana Ross recorded with The Supremes before launching her solo career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | The Righteous Brothers ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Phil Spector ⓘ |
| associatedSongwriter |
Carole King
ⓘ
Gerry Goffin ⓘ |
| bSide | The Blues ⓘ |
| chartPerformance | Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit ⓘ |
| composer |
Carole King
ⓘ
Phil Spector ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1960s ⓘ |
| follows | You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
ⓘ
pop ballad ⓘ |
| hasNotableChartingStatus | one of The Righteous Brothers’ notable mid-1960s hits ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | blue-eyed soul ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum |
Just Once in My Life
ⓘ
surface form:
Just Once in My Life (album)
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 3:48 ⓘ |
| nextSingleByArtist | Unchained Melody ⓘ |
| performedBy |
Bill Medley
ⓘ
Bobby Hatfield ⓘ |
| performer | The Righteous Brothers ⓘ |
| previousSingleByArtist | You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ ⓘ |
| producer | Phil Spector ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | The Righteous Brothers ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Philles Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1965-03 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| writer | Gerry Goffin ⓘ |
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: Just Once in My Life (The Righteous Brothers hit) Description of subject: "Just Once in My Life" is a 1965 pop ballad recorded by the Righteous Brothers, co-written by Gerry Goffin, that became one of their notable charting hits following "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'."
Referenced by (1)
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