Him (song)
E185703
"Him" is a 1979 soft rock hit by singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes, best known as one of his major chart successes alongside "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Him (song) canonical | 2 |
| Him | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1649076 — 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: Him (song) Context triple: [Rupert Holmes, notableWork, Him (song)]
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A.
A Song
"A Song" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis featured on his 1979 electronic music album "Earth."
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B.
One Heart
One Heart is a 2003 pop album by Canadian singer Celine Dion that blends upbeat dance tracks with emotional ballads and includes the hit single "I Drove All Night."
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C.
Furaha
Furaha is an individual known primarily as the child of Fifi.
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D.
Hey Love
"Hey Love" is a soulful 1966 song by Stevie Wonder, admired for its smooth melody and romantic lyrics and later embraced as a classic in his early Motown catalog.
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E.
Nini
Nini is one of the five Fuwa mascots of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, inspired by a swallow and symbolizing good luck and the host city's culture.
- 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: Him (song) Target entity description: "Him" is a 1979 soft rock hit by singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes, best known as one of his major chart successes alongside "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)."
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A.
A Song
"A Song" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis featured on his 1979 electronic music album "Earth."
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B.
One Heart
One Heart is a 2003 pop album by Canadian singer Celine Dion that blends upbeat dance tracks with emotional ballads and includes the hit single "I Drove All Night."
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C.
Furaha
Furaha is an individual known primarily as the child of Fifi.
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D.
Hey Love
"Hey Love" is a soulful 1966 song by Stevie Wonder, admired for its smooth melody and romantic lyrics and later embraced as a classic in his early Motown catalog.
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E.
Nini
Nini is one of the five Fuwa mascots of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, inspired by a swallow and symbolizing good luck and the host city's culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| chronologicallyCloseTo | Escape (The Piña Colada Song) ⓘ |
| composer | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionFormat |
phonograph record
ⓘ
radio airplay ⓘ |
| followsInArtistHits | Escape (The Piña Colada Song) ⓘ |
| genre | soft rock ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
adult contemporary
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ |
| hasNotability | hit single in the late 1970s ⓘ |
| hasPublicationType | commercial single ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatter |
love and jealousy
ⓘ
romantic relationship ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Him ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| medium | recorded music ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of Rupert Holmes’s major chart successes ⓘ |
| partOf | Rupert Holmes’s hit singles ⓘ |
| performer | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| performerOf | Rupert Holmes discography ⓘ |
| recordingArtistNationality | American ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
| writer | Rupert Holmes ⓘ |
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: Him (song) Description of subject: "Him" is a 1979 soft rock hit by singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes, best known as one of his major chart successes alongside "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Him