Will It Go Round in Circles
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"Will It Go Round in Circles" is a 1972 funk-influenced soul song by Billy Preston that became one of his biggest hits, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Will It Go Round in Circles canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11305291 — 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: Will It Go Round in Circles Context triple: [Billy Preston, notableWork, Will It Go Round in Circles]
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A.
Round and Round
"Round and Round" is the B-side track to Lionel Richie's 1984 single "Stuck on You," featured on his hit album "Can't Slow Down."
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B.
Round and Round
"Round and Round" is a 1984 glam metal hit by the American band Ratt, known as one of their signature songs and a staple of the genre’s MTV era.
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C.
Full Circle
"Full Circle" is a folk music album by the Canadian duo Ian and Sylvia, reflecting their mature songwriting and harmonies later in their career.
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D.
Full Circle
Full Circle is the 1972 post-Jim Morrison studio album by The Doors that explores jazz, funk, and progressive rock influences.
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E.
Full Circle
Full Circle is a studio album by American R&B group Boyz II Men that marked a later phase in their career, showcasing their signature harmonies with a more contemporary sound.
- 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: Will It Go Round in Circles Target entity description: "Will It Go Round in Circles" is a 1972 funk-influenced soul song by Billy Preston that became one of his biggest hits, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
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A.
Round and Round
"Round and Round" is a 1984 glam metal hit by the American band Ratt, known as one of their signature songs and a staple of the genre’s MTV era.
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B.
Round and Round
"Round and Round" is the B-side track to Lionel Richie's 1984 single "Stuck on You," featured on his hit album "Can't Slow Down."
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C.
Full Circle
"Full Circle" is a folk music album by the Canadian duo Ian and Sylvia, reflecting their mature songwriting and harmonies later in their career.
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D.
Full Circle
Full Circle is the 1972 post-Jim Morrison studio album by The Doors that explores jazz, funk, and progressive rock influences.
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E.
Full Circle
Full Circle is a studio album by American R&B group Boyz II Men that marked a later phase in their career, showcasing their signature harmonies with a more contemporary sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Billy Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chart |
Billboard Hot 100
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billboard Hot Soul Singles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
number 10 on Billboard Hot Soul Singles
ⓘ
number one on Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ |
| composer |
Billy Preston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bruce Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1970s ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasBside | Blackbird NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion | covered by various artists in later decades ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ horn section ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | funk-influenced soul ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | no original contemporary promo video widely known ⓘ |
| hasTheme | playful, circular wordplay in lyrics ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Music Is My Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOneOf | Billy Preston's biggest hits ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 4:28 ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bruce Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Billy Preston's first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| partOf | Music Is My Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakChartDateUS | 1973-07-07 ⓘ |
| peakChartPositionUS | 1 ⓘ |
| performances | performed live by Billy Preston in the 1970s ⓘ |
| performer | Billy Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Billy Preston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Malcolm Cecil NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Margouleff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1972 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | A&M Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1972-10-27 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Billy Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Will It Go Round in Circles Description of subject: "Will It Go Round in Circles" is a 1972 funk-influenced soul song by Billy Preston that became one of his biggest hits, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Referenced by (1)
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