Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
E39845
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a classic Christmas standard, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis* and since covered by countless artists.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T306047 — 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: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Context triple: [A Legendary Christmas, hasTrack, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas]
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A.
Silver Bells
"Silver Bells" is a classic Christmas song widely associated with the holiday season and frequently included on festive albums.
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B.
What Christmas Means to Me
"What Christmas Means to Me" is a classic, upbeat soul Christmas song—originally popularized by Stevie Wonder—celebrating the joy and warmth of the holiday season.
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C.
A Legendary Christmas
A Legendary Christmas is a holiday studio album by American singer John Legend, featuring soulful renditions of Christmas classics and original festive songs.
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D.
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American comedy-drama film about a chaotic family Thanksgiving gathering, directed by Jodie Foster.
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E.
Christmas Stroll
Christmas Stroll is an annual holiday festival on Nantucket featuring decorated streets, seasonal shopping, and community celebrations that attract visitors to the island each December.
- 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: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Target entity description: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a classic Christmas standard, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis* and since covered by countless artists.
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A.
Silver Bells
"Silver Bells" is a classic Christmas song widely associated with the holiday season and frequently included on festive albums.
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B.
What Christmas Means to Me
"What Christmas Means to Me" is a classic, upbeat soul Christmas song—originally popularized by Stevie Wonder—celebrating the joy and warmth of the holiday season.
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C.
A Legendary Christmas
A Legendary Christmas is a holiday studio album by American singer John Legend, featuring soulful renditions of Christmas classics and original festive songs.
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D.
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American comedy-drama film about a chaotic family Thanksgiving gathering, directed by Jodie Foster.
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E.
Christmas Stroll
Christmas Stroll is an annual holiday festival on Nantucket featuring decorated streets, seasonal shopping, and community celebrations that attract visitors to the island each December.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christmas song
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popular music standard ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | Hugh Martin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| filmReleaseYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceBy | Judy Garland ⓘ |
| genre |
Christmas music
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traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasAlternateLyricsVersion | more upbeat version requested by Frank Sinatra ⓘ |
| hasNotableCover |
Ariana Grande version
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Bing Crosby version ⓘ Christina Aguilera version ⓘ Coldplay version ⓘ Diana Krall version ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald version ⓘ Frank Sinatra version ⓘ Garth Brooks version ⓘ James Brown version ⓘ James Taylor version ⓘ Jewel version ⓘ John Legend version ⓘ Josh Groban version ⓘ Kelly Clarkson version ⓘ Lady Antebellum version ⓘ Luther Vandross version ⓘ Mel Tormé version ⓘ Michael Bublé version ⓘ Pentatonix version ⓘ Rod Stewart version ⓘ Sam Smith and John Legend duet version ⓘ Sam Smith version ⓘ Sarah McLachlan version ⓘ Tony Bennett version ⓘ Tori Amos version ⓘ Whitney Houston version ⓘ |
| introducedInFilm | Meet Me in St. Louis ⓘ |
| isConsidered | Christmas standard ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyPlayedDuring | Christmas season ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Hugh Martin ⓘ |
| originalContext | sung to comfort a younger sister before a family move ⓘ |
| originalLyricsTone | melancholic ⓘ |
| originalPerformerCharacter | Esther Smith ⓘ |
| originalPerformerCharacterPortrayedBy | Judy Garland ⓘ |
| publisher | Warner Chappell Music ⓘ |
| theme |
hope
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nostalgia ⓘ reunion ⓘ |
| title | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas self-link ⓘ |
| yearWritten | 1943 ⓘ |
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: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Description of subject: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a classic Christmas standard, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis* and since covered by countless artists.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Meet Me in St. Louis
this entity surface form:
Christmas standard "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
subject surface form:
Detective Michael Tritter
this entity surface form:
"Merry Little Christmas"
this entity surface form:
Merry Christmas Baby