We Are the World
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We Are the World is a 1985 charity single written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa to raise funds for famine relief in Africa.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| We Are the World canonical | 11 |
| "We Are the World" recording | 1 |
| USA for Africa single "We Are the World" | 1 |
| We Are the World 25 for Haiti | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T562439 — 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: We Are the World Context triple: [Lionel Richie, notableWork, We Are the World]
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A.
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.
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B.
Everything We Need
"Everything We Need" is a gospel-influenced hip hop track by Kanye West featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Ant Clemons, known for its spiritual themes and melodic, uplifting sound.
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C.
I Just Called to Say I Love You
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" is a 1984 pop and R&B ballad by Stevie Wonder that became one of his biggest international hits and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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D.
Tikkun Olam
Tikkun Olam is a Jewish theological and ethical concept emphasizing human responsibility to repair, improve, and perfect the world through justice, compassion, and righteous action.
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E.
Love Makes the World Go
Love Makes the World Go is a musical work by renowned American composer Richard Rodgers, known for his influential contributions to 20th-century musical theatre.
- 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: We Are the World Target entity description: We Are the World is a 1985 charity single written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa to raise funds for famine relief in Africa.
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A.
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.
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B.
Everything We Need
"Everything We Need" is a gospel-influenced hip hop track by Kanye West featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Ant Clemons, known for its spiritual themes and melodic, uplifting sound.
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C.
I Just Called to Say I Love You
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" is a 1984 pop and R&B ballad by Stevie Wonder that became one of his biggest international hits and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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D.
Tikkun Olam
Tikkun Olam is a Jewish theological and ethical concept emphasizing human responsibility to repair, improve, and perfect the world through justice, compassion, and righteous action.
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E.
Love Makes the World Go
Love Makes the World Go is a musical work by renowned American composer Richard Rodgers, known for his influential contributions to 20th-century musical theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
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: We Are the World Description of subject: We Are the World is a 1985 charity single written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa to raise funds for famine relief in Africa.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
We Are the World 25 for Haiti
this entity surface form:
"We Are the World" recording
this entity surface form:
USA for Africa single "We Are the World"