How Do You Keep the Music Playing?
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"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" is a romantic ballad by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, best known from the 1982 film "Best Friends" and widely recorded by vocalists including James Ingram.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| How Do You Keep the Music Playing? canonical | 8 |
| How Do You Keep the Music Playing? with James Ingram | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5648407 — 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: How Do You Keep the Music Playing? Context triple: [James Ingram, notableWork, How Do You Keep the Music Playing?]
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A.
Can’t Stop the Music
Can’t Stop the Music is a 1980 musical comedy film loosely based on the formation of the Village People, known for its campy style and disco-era soundtrack.
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B.
A Playlist Without Borders
A Playlist Without Borders is a genre-blending album by the Silk Road Ensemble that showcases cross-cultural musical collaboration and global influences.
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C.
How Music Works
How Music Works is a nonfiction book by musician David Byrne that explores the art, theory, history, and business of music and how context shapes what we hear.
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D.
Music Quickens Time
Music Quickens Time is a collection of essays by conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim reflecting on music’s role in culture, politics, and human understanding.
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E.
Loop
The Loop is Chicago’s central business district and downtown core, known for its dense cluster of skyscrapers, cultural institutions, and historic elevated train system.
- 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: How Do You Keep the Music Playing? Target entity description: "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" is a romantic ballad by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, best known from the 1982 film "Best Friends" and widely recorded by vocalists including James Ingram.
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A.
Can’t Stop the Music
Can’t Stop the Music is a 1980 musical comedy film loosely based on the formation of the Village People, known for its campy style and disco-era soundtrack.
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B.
A Playlist Without Borders
A Playlist Without Borders is a genre-blending album by the Silk Road Ensemble that showcases cross-cultural musical collaboration and global influences.
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C.
How Music Works
How Music Works is a nonfiction book by musician David Byrne that explores the art, theory, history, and business of music and how context shapes what we hear.
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D.
Music Quickens Time
Music Quickens Time is a collection of essays by conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim reflecting on music’s role in culture, politics, and human understanding.
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E.
Loop
The Loop is Chicago’s central business district and downtown core, known for its dense cluster of skyscrapers, cultural institutions, and historic elevated train system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American songbook repertoire
ⓘ
film music ⓘ |
| composer | Michel Legrand ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredInFilm | Best Friends ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| genre | romantic ballad ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
traditional pop
ⓘ
vocal jazz standard ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Alan Bergman
ⓘ
Marilyn Bergman ⓘ |
| lyricsBy |
Alan and Marilyn Bergman
ⓘ
linked to:
Alan Bergman
|
| musicBy | Michel Legrand ⓘ |
| notableFor | being widely recorded by vocalists ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Barbra Streisand
ⓘ
Celine Dion ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ George Benson ⓘ James Ingram ⓘ Patti Austin ⓘ Shirley Bassey ⓘ Tony Bennett ⓘ |
| originalMedium | film soundtrack ⓘ |
| partOfSoundtrack | Best Friends ⓘ |
| theme |
challenges of long-term relationships
ⓘ
enduring love ⓘ |
| usedAs | love theme ⓘ |
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: How Do You Keep the Music Playing? Description of subject: "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" is a romantic ballad by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, best known from the 1982 film "Best Friends" and widely recorded by vocalists including James Ingram.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: How Do You Keep the Music Playing?