Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye
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"Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye" is a popular British song from the late 1930s closely associated with wartime morale and famously performed by Gracie Fields.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye | 1 |
| Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye canonical | 1 |
| Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9044094 — 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: Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye Context triple: [Gracie Fields, notableWork, Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye]
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A.
Wishing I Was Lucky
"Wishing I Was Lucky" is the debut single by Scottish pop band Wet Wet Wet, which introduced their soulful pop sound to a wide audience in the late 1980s.
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B.
I Wish You Well
"I Wish You Well" is a song by Mariah Carey from her 2008 album E=MC², noted for its emotional, gospel-tinged ballad style and introspective lyrics.
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C.
Wish You Well
"Wish You Well" is a 2013 drama film adaptation of David Baldacci's novel, featuring Mackenzie Foy as a young girl who moves to rural Virginia after a family tragedy.
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D.
How I Wish
"How I Wish" is a blues-rock song by Keith Richards featured on his 1988 solo album "Talk Is Cheap."
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E.
Just My Luck
Just My Luck is a 1957 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a timid jeweller’s assistant whose attempts to improve his luck lead to a series of chaotic misadventures.
- 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: Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye Target entity description: "Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye" is a popular British song from the late 1930s closely associated with wartime morale and famously performed by Gracie Fields.
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A.
Wishing I Was Lucky
"Wishing I Was Lucky" is the debut single by Scottish pop band Wet Wet Wet, which introduced their soulful pop sound to a wide audience in the late 1980s.
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B.
I Wish You Well
"I Wish You Well" is a song by Mariah Carey from her 2008 album E=MC², noted for its emotional, gospel-tinged ballad style and introspective lyrics.
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C.
Wish You Well
"Wish You Well" is a 2013 drama film adaptation of David Baldacci's novel, featuring Mackenzie Foy as a young girl who moves to rural Virginia after a family tragedy.
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D.
How I Wish
"How I Wish" is a blues-rock song by Keith Richards featured on his 1988 solo album "Talk Is Cheap."
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E.
Just My Luck
Just My Luck is a 1957 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a timid jeweller’s assistant whose attempts to improve his luck lead to a series of chaotic misadventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British home front culture
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Gracie Fields ⓘ civilian farewells during wartime ⓘ soldiers departing for war ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Second World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| composer | Harry Parr-Davies ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | British wartime standard ⓘ |
| decade | 1930s ⓘ |
| famousLine |
Cheerio, here I go, on my way
ⓘ
Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye ⓘ
linked to:
Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye
|
| firstPerformanceDate | 1939 ⓘ |
| genre |
traditional pop
ⓘ
wartime song ⓘ |
| hasForm | vocal music ⓘ |
| hasMood |
bittersweet
ⓘ
optimistic ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStructure | verse-chorus form ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
farewell
ⓘ
good luck ⓘ parting ⓘ wartime morale ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general public ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Phil Park ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with British wartime spirit
ⓘ
popularity in Britain in the late 1930s ⓘ |
| performedIn |
British concert halls
ⓘ
radio broadcasts ⓘ |
| performer | Gracie Fields ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Gracie Fields ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Rex Records ⓘ |
| usedFor | boosting wartime morale ⓘ |
| yearOfRelease | 1939 ⓘ |
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: Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye Description of subject: "Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye" is a popular British song from the late 1930s closely associated with wartime morale and famously performed by Gracie Fields.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Our Gracie
linked to: Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye
linked to: Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye