I Can't Do the Sum
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"I Can't Do the Sum" is a musical number from Disney's 1961 film "Babes in Toyland," performed by the character Mary Contrary as she struggles to make sense of her finances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Can't Do the Sum canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10286269 — 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 Can't Do the Sum Context triple: [Babes in Toyland (1961 film), hasSong, I Can't Do the Sum]
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A.
Sum of My Music
Sum of My Music is the debut studio album by American actor and singer Jussie Smollett, showcasing his blend of R&B, soul, and pop influences.
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B.
I Can't
"I Can't" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead from their 1993 debut album, Pablo Honey.
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C.
Sam-I-Am
Sam-I-Am is the persistent, cheerful character from Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” who continually tries to convince another character to try the unusual dish.
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D.
I Can't Hear the Music
"I Can't Hear the Music" is a song featured on James Blunt's album "All the Lost Souls."
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E.
“I Can’t Do It”
“I Can’t Do It” is an R&B song written and produced by Shep Crawford, known for his emotionally driven, soulful ballads.
- 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 Can't Do the Sum Target entity description: "I Can't Do the Sum" is a musical number from Disney's 1961 film "Babes in Toyland," performed by the character Mary Contrary as she struggles to make sense of her finances.
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A.
Sum of My Music
Sum of My Music is the debut studio album by American actor and singer Jussie Smollett, showcasing his blend of R&B, soul, and pop influences.
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B.
I Can't
"I Can't" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead from their 1993 debut album, Pablo Honey.
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C.
Sam-I-Am
Sam-I-Am is the persistent, cheerful character from Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” who continually tries to convince another character to try the unusual dish.
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D.
I Can't Hear the Music
"I Can't Hear the Music" is a song featured on James Blunt's album "All the Lost Souls."
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E.
“I Can’t Do It”
“I Can’t Do It” is an R&B song written and produced by Shep Crawford, known for his emotionally driven, soulful ballads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Babes in Toyland (1961 film) ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Babes in Toyland (operetta)
ⓘ
linked to:
Babes in Toyland (1961 film)
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredInGenre | fantasy musical film ⓘ |
| fictionalContext | Mary Contrary's financial troubles ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre song ⓘ |
| hasFictionalCharacterSinger | Mary Contrary ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Toyland ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
economic anxiety
ⓘ
romantic hardship ⓘ |
| isSongIn | Babes in Toyland (1961 film) ⓘ |
| medium | sound film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
difficulty with arithmetic
ⓘ
personal finances ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfWork | Babes in Toyland (1961 film) ⓘ |
| performer |
Mary Contrary (character)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Contrary
|
| productionCompany |
Disney
ⓘ
Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| title | I Can't Do the Sum ⓘ |
| usedInMedium | film ⓘ |
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 Can't Do the Sum Description of subject: "I Can't Do the Sum" is a musical number from Disney's 1961 film "Babes in Toyland," performed by the character Mary Contrary as she struggles to make sense of her finances.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.