I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
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"I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise" is a popular 1922 American song, with lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin, that became a standard of the early jazz and Broadway repertoire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise | 1 |
| I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9649707 — 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’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise Context triple: [Bert Kalmar, notableWork, I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise]
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A.
Heaven's Door
Heaven's Door is the key lyrical phrase and central motif from Bob Dylan's iconic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," symbolizing the threshold between life and death.
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B.
Another Day in Paradise
"Another Day in Paradise" is a 1989 soft rock song by Phil Collins that addresses homelessness and social inequality and became one of his most commercially successful and critically acclaimed singles.
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C.
Raining Stones
Raining Stones is a 1993 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows a working-class father’s desperate efforts to provide for his family in economically depressed northern England.
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D.
Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
"Tryin’ to Get to Heaven" is a reflective, blues-infused song by Bob Dylan known for its meditative lyrics on mortality and spiritual longing.
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E.
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a classic folk-rock song by Bob Dylan, renowned for its poignant lyrics and enduring influence across popular music.
- 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’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise Target entity description: "I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise" is a popular 1922 American song, with lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin, that became a standard of the early jazz and Broadway repertoire.
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A.
Heaven's Door
Heaven's Door is the key lyrical phrase and central motif from Bob Dylan's iconic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," symbolizing the threshold between life and death.
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B.
Another Day in Paradise
"Another Day in Paradise" is a 1989 soft rock song by Phil Collins that addresses homelessness and social inequality and became one of his most commercially successful and critically acclaimed singles.
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C.
Raining Stones
Raining Stones is a 1993 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows a working-class father’s desperate efforts to provide for his family in economically depressed northern England.
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D.
Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
"Tryin’ to Get to Heaven" is a reflective, blues-infused song by Bob Dylan known for its meditative lyrics on mortality and spiritual longing.
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E.
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a classic folk-rock song by Bob Dylan, renowned for its poignant lyrics and enduring influence across popular music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway standard
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 1920s American popular music ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1922 ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ show tune ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme |
aspiration
ⓘ
optimism ⓘ search for happiness ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise
ⓘ
linked to:
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
|
| hasType | American song ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Bert Kalmar
ⓘ
Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| partOf |
Broadway repertoire
ⓘ
early jazz repertoire ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1922 ⓘ |
| usedInContext | Broadway-style revues ⓘ |
| yearOfComposition | 1922 ⓘ |
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’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise Description of subject: "I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise" is a popular 1922 American song, with lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin, that became a standard of the early jazz and Broadway repertoire.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
linked to: I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise