I Want a Girl
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"I Want a Girl" is a popular early 20th-century American song co-written by lyricist Bert Kalmar, best known for its nostalgic refrain about wanting "a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I Want a Girl canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9649701 — 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: I Want a Girl Context triple: [Bert Kalmar, notableWork, I Want a Girl]
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A.
Your Girl
"Your Girl" is a song by Mariah Carey from her 2005 album *The Emancipation of Mimi*.
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B.
Looking for the Girl
"Looking for the Girl" is a short story by Neil Gaiman, featured in his collection *Smoke and Mirrors*, that blends dark fantasy with themes of obsession and memory.
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C.
Girls Want Girls
"Girls Want Girls" is a popular hip-hop/R&B track best known as a Drake song featuring Lil Baby, noted for its melodic delivery and controversial, flirtatious lyrics.
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D.
Hold the Girl
Hold the Girl is a genre-blending pop album by Rina Sawayama that explores themes of identity, trauma, and healing through theatrical production and emotionally charged songwriting.
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E.
I Want a Son
"I Want a Son" is a song recorded by Kenny Rogers, released as the B-side to his 1982 single "Love Will Turn You Around."
- 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: I Want a Girl Target entity description: "I Want a Girl" is a popular early 20th-century American song co-written by lyricist Bert Kalmar, best known for its nostalgic refrain about wanting "a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad."
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A.
Your Girl
"Your Girl" is a song by Mariah Carey from her 2005 album *The Emancipation of Mimi*.
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B.
Looking for the Girl
"Looking for the Girl" is a short story by Neil Gaiman, featured in his collection *Smoke and Mirrors*, that blends dark fantasy with themes of obsession and memory.
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C.
Girls Want Girls
"Girls Want Girls" is a popular hip-hop/R&B track best known as a Drake song featuring Lil Baby, noted for its melodic delivery and controversial, flirtatious lyrics.
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D.
Hold the Girl
Hold the Girl is a genre-blending pop album by Rina Sawayama that explores themes of identity, trauma, and healing through theatrical production and emotionally charged songwriting.
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E.
I Want a Son
"I Want a Son" is a song recorded by Kenny Rogers, released as the B-side to his 1982 single "Love Will Turn You Around."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tin Pan Alley song
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song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American popular songbook
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barbershop quartet repertoire ⓘ vaudeville ⓘ |
| composer | Harry Von Tilzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1910s ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| genre |
popular music
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traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole |
American standard
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parlor song ⓘ |
| hasNotableComposer | Harry Von Tilzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyricist |
Bert Kalmar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edgar Leslie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording |
Billy Murray recording
ⓘ
Peerless Quartet recording ⓘ |
| hasType | waltz song ⓘ |
| influencedBy | sentimental ballads of the early 1900s ⓘ |
| isExampleOf |
American standard song
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early Tin Pan Alley hit ⓘ |
| isStandardIn |
barbershop music
ⓘ
male vocal quartet repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalPerspective | first-person male narrator ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Bert Kalmar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edgar Leslie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingLyric | When I was a boy my mother often said to me ⓘ |
| partOf | American popular music of the pre–World War I era ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| publisher | Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refrain | I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | search for a spouse resembling one’s mother ⓘ |
| theme |
family values
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idealized womanhood ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ |
| timeSignature | 3/4 ⓘ |
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: I Want a Girl Description of subject: "I Want a Girl" is a popular early 20th-century American song co-written by lyricist Bert Kalmar, best known for its nostalgic refrain about wanting "a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.