I’m Sitting on Top of the World
E40842
"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a popular early 20th-century American song that became a standard, widely recorded by various artists across jazz and popular music.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I’m Sitting on Top of the World canonical | 6 |
| Sitting on Top of the World | 2 |
| “I’m Sitting on Top of the World” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T315430 — 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’m Sitting on Top of the World Context triple: [The Singing Fool, featuresSong, I’m Sitting on Top of the World]
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A.
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic ballad from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enduring songs in American popular music.
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B.
Up in the World
Up in the World is a 1956 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a window cleaner who becomes entangled in chaotic misadventures while working at a wealthy country estate.
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C.
Sittin' Up in My Room
"Sittin' Up in My Room" is a mid-1990s R&B song performed by Brandy, best known for its inclusion on the "Waiting to Exhale" film soundtrack and its success on the Billboard charts.
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D.
You Don't Know My Name
"You Don't Know My Name" is a soulful R&B song by Alicia Keys, acclaimed for its nostalgic production, storytelling lyrics, and Keys' powerful vocal performance.
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E.
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a classic 1967 jazz and pop ballad, best known for Louis Armstrong’s warm, gravelly vocals and its optimistic reflection on the beauty of everyday life.
- 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’m Sitting on Top of the World Target entity description: "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a popular early 20th-century American song that became a standard, widely recorded by various artists across jazz and popular music.
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A.
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic ballad from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enduring songs in American popular music.
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B.
Up in the World
Up in the World is a 1956 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a window cleaner who becomes entangled in chaotic misadventures while working at a wealthy country estate.
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C.
Sittin' Up in My Room
"Sittin' Up in My Room" is a mid-1990s R&B song performed by Brandy, best known for its inclusion on the "Waiting to Exhale" film soundtrack and its success on the Billboard charts.
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D.
You Don't Know My Name
"You Don't Know My Name" is a soulful R&B song by Alicia Keys, acclaimed for its nostalgic production, storytelling lyrics, and Keys' powerful vocal performance.
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E.
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a classic 1967 jazz and pop ballad, best known for Louis Armstrong’s warm, gravelly vocals and its optimistic reflection on the beauty of everyday life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
ⓘ
popular song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | Ray Henderson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decade | 1920s ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | sheet music ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecordingBy |
Al Hirt
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Al Jolson ⓘ Alma Cogan ⓘ Barbra Streisand ⓘ Bing Crosby ⓘ Bobby Darin ⓘ Brenda Lee ⓘ Carl Perkins ⓘ Chet Atkins ⓘ Connie Francis ⓘ Dean Martin ⓘ Doc Watson ⓘ Doris Day ⓘ Eddy Arnold ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Gracie Fields ⓘ Harry Connick Jr. ⓘ Jerry Lee Lewis ⓘ Lawrence Welk ⓘ Les Brown and His Band of Renown ⓘ Les Paul ⓘ Leslie Hutchinson ⓘ Leslie Uggams ⓘ Louis Prima ⓘ Pat Boone ⓘ Perry Como ⓘ Ray Charles ⓘ Ray Conniff ⓘ Roger Whittaker ⓘ Shirley Bassey ⓘ Slim Whitman ⓘ The Andrews Sisters ⓘ The Four Lads ⓘ The King Sisters ⓘ The Mills Brothers ⓘ The Platters ⓘ Tony Bennett ⓘ Vera Lynn ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Joe Young
ⓘ
Sam M. Lewis ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
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’m Sitting on Top of the World Description of subject: "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a popular early 20th-century American song that became a standard, widely recorded by various artists across jazz and popular music.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Singing Fool (1928 film)
linked to: I’m Sitting on Top of the World
subject linked to:
album "Doc Watson" (1964)
linked to: I’m Sitting on Top of the World
linked to: I’m Sitting on Top of the World