It’s Not Where You Start
E792195
"It’s Not Where You Start" is an uplifting show tune with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, best known from the 1973 Broadway musical "Seesaw."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| It’s Not Where You Start canonical | 2 |
| It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9326625 — 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 Not Where You Start Context triple: [Dorothy Fields, notableWork, It’s Not Where You Start]
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A.
It’s Not All Downhill From Here
"It’s Not All Downhill From Here" is a contemporary novel by Terry McMillan that follows a 68-year-old woman and her close-knit group of friends as they navigate aging, loss, and reinvention with humor and resilience.
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B.
The Beginning or the End
"The Beginning or the End" is a 1947 American docudrama film dramatizing the development and use of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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C.
Beginning and the End
Beginning and the End is a biblical title for God, especially in Christian theology, emphasizing divine eternity and sovereignty over all of history.
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D.
Back Where It Begins
"Back Where It Begins" is an episode of the animated television series Rocket Power that focuses on the origins and early experiences of the show's main characters.
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E.
Where It All Begins
"Where It All Begins" is a 1994 studio album by the Allman Brothers Band that blends Southern rock, blues, and jam-band improvisation and is noted for revitalizing the group in the 1990s.
- 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 Not Where You Start Target entity description: "It’s Not Where You Start" is an uplifting show tune with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, best known from the 1973 Broadway musical "Seesaw."
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A.
It’s Not All Downhill From Here
"It’s Not All Downhill From Here" is a contemporary novel by Terry McMillan that follows a 68-year-old woman and her close-knit group of friends as they navigate aging, loss, and reinvention with humor and resilience.
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B.
The Beginning or the End
"The Beginning or the End" is a 1947 American docudrama film dramatizing the development and use of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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C.
Beginning and the End
Beginning and the End is a biblical title for God, especially in Christian theology, emphasizing divine eternity and sovereignty over all of history.
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D.
Back Where It Begins
"Back Where It Begins" is an episode of the animated television series Rocket Power that focuses on the origins and early experiences of the show's main characters.
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E.
Where It All Begins
"Where It All Begins" is a 1994 studio album by the Allman Brothers Band that blends Southern rock, blues, and jam-band improvisation and is noted for revitalizing the group in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Broadway musical Seesaw
ⓘ
linked to:
Seesaw (Broadway production)
Cy Coleman ⓘ Dorothy Fields ⓘ |
| composer | Cy Coleman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedAs |
optimistic
ⓘ
uplifting ⓘ |
| firstBroadwayProductionOpeningDate | 1973-03-18 ⓘ |
| firstBroadwayProductionTheatre | Mark Hellinger Theatre ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceIn | Seesaw (Broadway production) ⓘ |
| fromMusical | Seesaw ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre song
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ |
| hasLyricsLine |
It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish
ⓘ
linked to:
It’s Not Where You Start
|
| hasTheme |
overcoming obstacles
ⓘ
perseverance ⓘ self-belief ⓘ |
| lyricist | Dorothy Fields ⓘ |
| lyricistOf | lyrics emphasize that success depends on where you finish, not where you begin ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
Broadway standard
ⓘ
up-tempo ⓘ |
| notableFor | encouraging message about late-blooming success ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfWork | Seesaw ⓘ |
| performedInContext | Broadway stage ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| usedAs | audition song for musical theatre performers ⓘ |
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 Not Where You Start Description of subject: "It’s Not Where You Start" is an uplifting show tune with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, best known from the 1973 Broadway musical "Seesaw."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: It’s Not Where You Start