Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)
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"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" is an Academy Award-winning soft rock ballad by Christopher Cross, best known as the theme song from the 1981 romantic comedy film "Arthur."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5281117 — 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: Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) Context triple: [Christopher Cross, notableWork, Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)]
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A.
Lily’s Theme
Lily’s Theme is a haunting musical piece composed by Alexandre Desplat for the Harry Potter film series, associated with the character Lily Potter and the final installment’s emotional tone.
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B.
You'll Be in My Heart
"You'll Be in My Heart" is an Academy Award–winning ballad by Phil Collins, best known as the emotional theme song from Disney's animated film Tarzan.
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C.
Tony’s Theme
Tony’s Theme is a high-energy, surf-influenced punk rock song by the Pixies, featured on their influential 1988 album Surfer Rosa.
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D.
A Whole New World
"A Whole New World" is the romantic duet from Disney's 1992 animated film Aladdin, celebrated as one of the studio's most iconic and enduring songs.
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E.
When You Wish Upon a Star
"When You Wish Upon a Star" is a classic Disney song, introduced in the 1940 animated film Pinocchio, that has become an iconic anthem of hope and dreams.
- 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: Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) Target entity description: "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" is an Academy Award-winning soft rock ballad by Christopher Cross, best known as the theme song from the 1981 romantic comedy film "Arthur."
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A.
Lily’s Theme
Lily’s Theme is a haunting musical piece composed by Alexandre Desplat for the Harry Potter film series, associated with the character Lily Potter and the final installment’s emotional tone.
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B.
Carol Anne's Theme
"Carol Anne's Theme" is the haunting, lullaby-like musical piece composed by Jerry Goldsmith that serves as the signature motif associated with the young girl in the horror film Poltergeist.
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C.
You'll Be in My Heart
"You'll Be in My Heart" is an Academy Award–winning ballad by Phil Collins, best known as the emotional theme song from Disney's animated film Tarzan.
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D.
Tony’s Theme
Tony’s Theme is a high-energy, surf-influenced punk rock song by the Pixies, featured on their influential 1988 album Surfer Rosa.
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E.
A Whole New World
"A Whole New World" is the romantic duet from Disney's 1992 animated film Aladdin, celebrated as one of the studio's most iconic and enduring songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Arthur (film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Song
NERFINISHED
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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | romantic themes from the film Arthur ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
number one on the Adult Contemporary chart in the United States
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number one on the Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ top ten on the UK Singles Chart ⓘ |
| composer |
Burt Bacharach
NERFINISHED
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Carole Bayer Sager NERFINISHED ⓘ Christopher Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
pop
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soft rock ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle |
Arthur's Theme
NERFINISHED
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Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) (from the Original Motion Picture "Arthur") NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChorusLine | When you get caught between the moon and New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISRC | USWB18100074 ⓘ |
| hasKeyPhrase | Best that you can do ⓘ |
| hasLyricsTheme |
falling in love
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personal confusion ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| hasType | ballad ⓘ |
| includedInSoundtrack | Arthur: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 3 minutes 54 seconds ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Burt Bacharach
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carole Bayer Sager NERFINISHED ⓘ Christopher Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Grammy Award for Record of the Year
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award for Song of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Christopher Cross's second number-one hit in the United States
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winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ |
| partOf | Arthur (1981 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Christopher Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerNationality | American ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Omartian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1981 ⓘ |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | English ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| tempo | slow ⓘ |
| use | theme song ⓘ |
| usedFor | theme song of the film Arthur ⓘ |
| vocalist | Christopher Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) Description of subject: "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" is an Academy Award-winning soft rock ballad by Christopher Cross, best known as the theme song from the 1981 romantic comedy film "Arthur."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Arthur (1981 film)