How Long Has This Been Going On?
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"How Long Has This Been Going On?" is a popular song by George and Ira Gershwin that became a jazz and pop standard after its introduction in the late 1920s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| How Long Has This Been Going On? canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2007841 — 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: How Long Has This Been Going On? Context triple: [Funny Face, song, How Long Has This Been Going On?]
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A.
Ten Long Years
"Ten Long Years" is a blues track featured on the collaborative album "Riding with the King" by B.B. King and Eric Clapton.
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B.
Past and Present
Past and Present is a 19th-century historical and social critique by Thomas Carlyle that contrasts medieval monastic life with the industrial age to condemn modern social injustices and moral decay.
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C.
No Long Thing
No Long Thing is the 2005 debut studio album by Nigerian singer D'banj, which helped establish him as a major figure in Afrobeats.
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D.
If Not Now, When?
If Not Now, When? is a historical novel by Primo Levi that follows a band of Jewish partisans fighting behind enemy lines in Eastern Europe during World War II.
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E.
So Long Ago, So Clear
"So Long Ago, So Clear" is a melodic, vocal-driven track by Vangelis featuring Jon Anderson, known for its ethereal, symphonic sound and enduring popularity among progressive and electronic music fans.
- 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: How Long Has This Been Going On? Target entity description: "How Long Has This Been Going On?" is a popular song by George and Ira Gershwin that became a jazz and pop standard after its introduction in the late 1920s.
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A.
Ten Long Years
"Ten Long Years" is a blues track featured on the collaborative album "Riding with the King" by B.B. King and Eric Clapton.
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B.
Past and Present
Past and Present is a 19th-century historical and social critique by Thomas Carlyle that contrasts medieval monastic life with the industrial age to condemn modern social injustices and moral decay.
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C.
No Long Thing
No Long Thing is the 2005 debut studio album by Nigerian singer D'banj, which helped establish him as a major figure in Afrobeats.
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D.
If Not Now, When?
If Not Now, When? is a historical novel by Primo Levi that follows a band of Jewish partisans fighting behind enemy lines in Eastern Europe during World War II.
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E.
So Long Ago, So Clear
"So Long Ago, So Clear" is a melodic, vocal-driven track by Vangelis featuring Jon Anderson, known for its ethereal, symphonic sound and enduring popularity among progressive and electronic music fans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
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pop standard ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
jazz
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popular music ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Ahmad Jamal
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Anita O'Day ⓘ Art Blakey ⓘ Barbra Streisand ⓘ Benny Goodman ⓘ Bill Evans ⓘ Billie Holiday ⓘ Carmen McRae ⓘ Chet Baker ⓘ Dexter Gordon ⓘ Diana Krall ⓘ Dinah Washington ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Gerry Mulligan ⓘ Harry Connick Jr. ⓘ Joe Williams ⓘ Julie London ⓘ Karrin Allyson ⓘ Keith Jarrett ⓘ Lena Horne ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ Mel Tormé ⓘ Michael Feinstein ⓘ Nat King Cole ⓘ Oscar Peterson ⓘ Peggy Lee ⓘ Ray Charles ⓘ Sarah Vaughan ⓘ Shirley Horn ⓘ Sonny Rollins ⓘ Stan Getz ⓘ Tony Bennett ⓘ Van Morrison ⓘ Wynton Marsalis ⓘ |
| hasType | show tune ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| partOf | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | late 1920s ⓘ |
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: How Long Has This Been Going On? Description of subject: "How Long Has This Been Going On?" is a popular song by George and Ira Gershwin that became a jazz and pop standard after its introduction in the late 1920s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
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includesWork
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How Long Has This Been Going On?
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