The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
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"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a soulful ballad most famously performed by Roberta Flack, whose 1972 recording became a major hit and won multiple Grammy Awards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9080008 — 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 First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Context triple: [Roberta Flack, notableWork, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face]
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A.
I Saw the Light
"I Saw the Light" is a hit country song by American singer Wynonna Judd that helped establish her successful solo career in the early 1990s.
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B.
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" is a popular show tune from the Lerner and Loewe musical *My Fair Lady*, known for its reflective, bittersweet expression of unexpected love.
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C.
Sunshine of My Soul
"Sunshine of My Soul" is a jazz album by pianist Jaki Byard, showcasing his eclectic style and inventive approach to the piano trio format.
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D.
Till There Was You
"Till There Was You" is a romantic ballad from the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man that later became widely known through a popular cover by The Beatles.
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E.
I See Your Face Before Me
"I See Your Face Before Me" is a popular standard from the Great American Songbook, composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz and recorded by numerous artists, including Frank Sinatra.
- 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 First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Target entity description: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a soulful ballad most famously performed by Roberta Flack, whose 1972 recording became a major hit and won multiple Grammy Awards.
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A.
I Saw the Light
"I Saw the Light" is a hit country song by American singer Wynonna Judd that helped establish her successful solo career in the early 1990s.
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B.
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" is a popular show tune from the Lerner and Loewe musical *My Fair Lady*, known for its reflective, bittersweet expression of unexpected love.
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C.
Sunshine of My Soul
"Sunshine of My Soul" is a jazz album by pianist Jaki Byard, showcasing his eclectic style and inventive approach to the piano trio format.
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D.
Till There Was You
"Till There Was You" is a romantic ballad from the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man that later became widely known through a popular cover by The Beatles.
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E.
I See Your Face Before Me
"I See Your Face Before Me" is a popular standard from the Great American Songbook, composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz and recorded by numerous artists, including Frank Sinatra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| album | First Take NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
pop
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| breakthroughHitFor | Roberta Flack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPositionCanadaRPMTopSingles | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSAdultContemporary | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 1 ⓘ |
| composer | Ewan MacColl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decadeOfOrigin | 1950s ⓘ |
| filmUseYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceBy | Peggy Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| GrammyAward |
Grammy Award for Record of the Year
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grammy Award for Song of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| GrammyAwardsYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| hasISWC | T-010.140.248-3 ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecognition | included in various greatest songs lists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | about 4:20 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ewan MacColl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCoverArtist |
Celine Dion
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elvis Presley NERFINISHED ⓘ George Michael NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Cash NERFINISHED ⓘ Leona Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Roberta Flack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRecording | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Roberta Flack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Joel Dorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Atlantic Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| singleReleaseYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| tempo | slow ⓘ |
| theme | romantic love ⓘ |
| usedInFilm | Play Misty for Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | soulful ⓘ |
| weeksAtNumberOneUSBillboardHot100 | 6 ⓘ |
| writtenFor | Peggy Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Description of subject: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a soulful ballad most famously performed by Roberta Flack, whose 1972 recording became a major hit and won multiple Grammy Awards.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.