"The Magic Number"
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"The Magic Number" is a classic hip hop track by De La Soul, best known as the playful, sample-rich opening song from their influential 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Magic Number | 4 |
| "The Magic Number" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6058352 — 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: "The Magic Number" Context triple: [De La Soul, notableWork, "The Magic Number"]
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A.
Three Is a Magic Number
"Three Is a Magic Number" is a popular educational song from the 1970s Schoolhouse Rock! series that teaches the multiplication table for the number three.
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B.
It's Magic
"It's Magic" is a popular song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn, best known for its introduction in the 1948 film "Romance on the High Seas" and subsequent status as a pop standard.
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C.
The Magic Box
The Magic Box is a 1951 British biographical drama film about cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene, featuring Glynis Johns among its notable cast.
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D.
The Magic Song
The Magic Song is a whimsical, nonsensical tune from Disney’s 1950 animated film "Cinderella," sung by the Fairy Godmother as she magically transforms Cinderella’s world.
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E.
This Magic Moment
"This Magic Moment" is a classic pop song, originally recorded by The Drifters and later popularized by Jay and the Americans with lead vocals by Jay Black.
- 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: "The Magic Number" Target entity description: "The Magic Number" is a classic hip hop track by De La Soul, best known as the playful, sample-rich opening song from their influential 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.
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A.
Three Is a Magic Number
"Three Is a Magic Number" is a popular educational song from the 1970s Schoolhouse Rock! series that teaches the multiplication table for the number three.
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B.
It's Magic
"It's Magic" is a popular song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn, best known for its introduction in the 1948 film "Romance on the High Seas" and subsequent status as a pop standard.
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C.
The Magic Box
The Magic Box is a 1951 British biographical drama film about cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene, featuring Glynis Johns among its notable cast.
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D.
The Magic Song
The Magic Song is a whimsical, nonsensical tune from Disney’s 1950 animated film "Cinderella," sung by the Fairy Godmother as she magically transforms Cinderella’s world.
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E.
This Magic Moment
"This Magic Moment" is a classic pop song, originally recorded by The Drifters and later popularized by Jay and the Americans with lead vocals by Jay Black.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | 3 Feet High and Rising ⓘ |
| artist | De La Soul ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
D.A.I.S.Y. Age aesthetic
ⓘ
linked to:
D.A.I.S.Y. Age movement
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
alternative hip hop
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hip hop ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | alternative hip hop ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
playful tone
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sample-rich production ⓘ use of multiple samples ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecognition | opening song on an influential debut album ⓘ |
| includedIn | 3 Feet High and Rising tracklist ⓘ |
| isConsidered | classic hip hop track ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| openingTrackOf | 3 Feet High and Rising ⓘ |
| partOf |
De La Soul discography
ⓘ
Golden age hip hop era ⓘ
linked to:
Golden Age of hip hop
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| performer | De La Soul ⓘ |
| producer | Prince Paul ⓘ |
| recordedBy | De La Soul ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Tommy Boy Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| writer |
David Jude Jolicoeur
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Kelvin Mercer ⓘ Vincent Mason ⓘ |
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: "The Magic Number" Description of subject: "The Magic Number" is a classic hip hop track by De La Soul, best known as the playful, sample-rich opening song from their influential 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: "The Magic Number"
linked to: "The Magic Number"
linked to: "The Magic Number"
linked to: "The Magic Number"