It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
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"It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is a classic Christmas song, popularized by singer Andy Williams, that has become a perennial holiday standard.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year canonical | 3 |
| It’s the most wonderful time of the year | 1 |
| The Most Wonderful Time | 1 |
| The Most Wonderful Time of the Year | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8537424 — 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: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Context triple: [Andy Williams, notableWork, It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year]
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A.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
"It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a classic mid-20th-century Christmas song that has become a seasonal standard, widely covered and featured in holiday music repertoires.
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B.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a classic Christmas standard, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis* and since covered by countless artists.
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C.
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
"I’ll Be Home for Christmas" is a classic American Christmas song, first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943, that expresses a soldier’s longing to be home with loved ones for the holidays.
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D.
Ring Them Bells
"Ring Them Bells" is a contemplative, gospel-tinged song by Bob Dylan, known for its spiritual imagery and hymn-like composition.
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E.
A Holly Jolly Christmas
"A Holly Jolly Christmas" is a popular mid-20th-century Christmas song, widely associated with Burl Ives’s recordings and now considered a holiday standard.
- 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: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Target entity description: "It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is a classic Christmas song, popularized by singer Andy Williams, that has become a perennial holiday standard.
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A.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
"It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a classic mid-20th-century Christmas song that has become a seasonal standard, widely covered and featured in holiday music repertoires.
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B.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a classic Christmas standard, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis* and since covered by countless artists.
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C.
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
"I’ll Be Home for Christmas" is a classic American Christmas song, first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943, that expresses a soldier’s longing to be home with loved ones for the holidays.
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D.
Ring Them Bells
"Ring Them Bells" is a contemplative, gospel-tinged song by Bob Dylan, known for its spiritual imagery and hymn-like composition.
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E.
A Holly Jolly Christmas
"A Holly Jolly Christmas" is a popular mid-20th-century Christmas song, widely associated with Burl Ives’s recordings and now considered a holiday standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Andy Williams ⓘ |
| composer | George Wyle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describesEvent |
Christmas traditions
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holiday gatherings ⓘ |
| firstPerformer | Andy Williams ⓘ |
| genre |
Christmas music
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pop ⓘ |
| hasChartSuccess | appears on Christmas music charts ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy |
Garth Brooks
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Harry Connick Jr. ⓘ Kylie Minogue ⓘ Pentatonix ⓘ Various artists ⓘ |
| hasMediaUse |
used in Christmas commercials
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used in Christmas television specials ⓘ used in holiday films ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric |
And caroling out in the snow
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year ⓘ
linked to:
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
There’ll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting ⓘ |
| hasTempo | upbeat ⓘ |
| isConsidered |
Christmas standard
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holiday standard ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyPlayedDuring |
Christmas season
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holiday season ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Christmas music canon ⓘ |
| label | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Edward Pola ⓘ |
| mood |
festive
ⓘ
joyful ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| performer | Andy Williams ⓘ |
| recordedForAlbum | The Andy Williams Christmas Album ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
celebration of Christmas
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family and social gatherings ⓘ holiday cheer ⓘ |
| theme |
Christmas
ⓘ
holiday season ⓘ |
| title | It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year ⓘ |
| vocalType | male vocal ⓘ |
| writer |
Edward Pola
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George Wyle ⓘ |
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: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Description of subject: "It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is a classic Christmas song, popularized by singer Andy Williams, that has become a perennial holiday standard.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
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hasNotableLyric
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year
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linked to: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
linked to: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year