So Near and Yet So Far
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"So Near and Yet So Far" is a popular song from the 1941 musical film "You'll Never Get Rich," featuring music by Cole Porter and performed by Fred Astaire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| So Near and Yet So Far canonical | 2 |
| So Near, So Far | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11009052 — 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: So Near and Yet So Far Context triple: [You'll Never Get Rich, hasSong, So Near and Yet So Far]
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A.
From a Distance
"From a Distance" is a popular ballad best known through Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning 1990 recording, which became an international hit and an emblematic peace-themed song.
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B.
The Distance
"The Distance" is a 1982 rock album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, featuring a polished heartland rock sound and several hit singles.
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C.
Far Away
"Far Away" is a melancholic folk-rock song by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, known for its intimate vocals and emotionally raw lyrics.
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D.
Far Away
"Far Away" is a song featured in the Japanese musical production "Leave It to Me!"
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E.
Far Away
"Far Away" is an emotional R&B song by Jessie Reyez that explores the pain and longing of a long-distance relationship, known for its raw vocals and socially conscious music video.
- 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: So Near and Yet So Far Target entity description: "So Near and Yet So Far" is a popular song from the 1941 musical film "You'll Never Get Rich," featuring music by Cole Porter and performed by Fred Astaire.
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A.
From a Distance
"From a Distance" is a popular ballad best known through Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning 1990 recording, which became an international hit and an emblematic peace-themed song.
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B.
The Distance
"The Distance" is a 1982 rock album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, featuring a polished heartland rock sound and several hit singles.
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C.
Far Away
"Far Away" is a song featured in the Japanese musical production "Leave It to Me!"
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D.
Far Away
"Far Away" is a melancholic folk-rock song by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, known for its intimate vocals and emotionally raw lyrics.
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E.
Far Away
"Far Away" is an emotional R&B song by Jessie Reyez that explores the pain and longing of a long-distance relationship, known for its raw vocals and socially conscious music video.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film song
ⓘ
popular song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedPerformer | Rita Hayworth ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| composer | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredIn |
1941 musical film You'll Never Get Rich
ⓘ
You'll Never Get Rich ⓘ
linked to:
You’ll Never Get Rich
|
| genre |
popular music
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ |
| hasEra | 1940s American popular music ⓘ |
| hasOriginalContext | Hollywood musical film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | So Near and Yet So Far ⓘ |
| hasType | film musical number ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| originallyFor |
You'll Never Get Rich
ⓘ
linked to:
You’ll Never Get Rich
|
| partOf | soundtrack of You'll Never Get Rich ⓘ |
| performedByInFilm | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| performer | Fred Astaire ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1941 ⓘ |
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: So Near and Yet So Far Description of subject: "So Near and Yet So Far" is a popular song from the 1941 musical film "You'll Never Get Rich," featuring music by Cole Porter and performed by Fred Astaire.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.