Don’t Be Shy
E241264
"Don’t Be Shy" is a folk song by Cat Stevens, best known for its prominent use on the soundtrack of the 1971 cult film *Harold and Maude*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don’t Be Shy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2179364 — 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: Don’t Be Shy Context triple: [Harold and Maude, notableSong, Don’t Be Shy]
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A.
Girl Shy
Girl Shy is a 1924 silent romantic comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a bashful young man whose awkward attempts at love lead to a series of inventive and fast-paced comedic situations.
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B.
Be Yourself
"Be Yourself" is a 2005 rock song by Chris Cornell’s band Audioslave, known for its introspective lyrics about individuality and self-acceptance.
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C.
Achin’ to Be
"Achin’ to Be" is a punk rock song by the American band Pinhead Gunpowder, known for its melodic hooks and association with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
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D.
She Don’t Have to Know
"She Don’t Have to Know" is an R&B song by John Legend from his debut studio album "Get Lifted," known for its soulful vocals and themes of secret romance.
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E.
Rather Be
"Rather Be" is a 2014 hit single by British electronic group Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne, known for its blend of classical-inspired strings with dance-pop production.
- 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: Don’t Be Shy Target entity description: "Don’t Be Shy" is a folk song by Cat Stevens, best known for its prominent use on the soundtrack of the 1971 cult film *Harold and Maude*.
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A.
Girl Shy
Girl Shy is a 1924 silent romantic comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a bashful young man whose awkward attempts at love lead to a series of inventive and fast-paced comedic situations.
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B.
Be Yourself
"Be Yourself" is a 2005 rock song by Chris Cornell’s band Audioslave, known for its introspective lyrics about individuality and self-acceptance.
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C.
Achin’ to Be
"Achin’ to Be" is a punk rock song by the American band Pinhead Gunpowder, known for its melodic hooks and association with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
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D.
She Don’t Have to Know
"She Don’t Have to Know" is an R&B song by John Legend from his debut studio album "Get Lifted," known for its soulful vocals and themes of secret romance.
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E.
Rather Be
"Rather Be" is a 2014 hit single by British electronic group Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne, known for its blend of classical-inspired strings with dance-pop production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk song
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Cat Stevens ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Cat Stevens
ⓘ
surface form:
Yusuf / Cat Stevens
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| composer | Cat Stevens ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuredInFilm | Harold and Maude ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
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folk rock ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasNotableUse | soundtrack of the 1971 film Harold and Maude ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricsTheme | shyness and emotional openness ⓘ |
| originalMedium | film soundtrack ⓘ |
| partOfSoundtrack | Harold and Maude ⓘ |
| performer | Cat Stevens ⓘ |
| recordingArtist |
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, stage name Cat Stevens)
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surface form:
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
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| releaseDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| usedAsOpeningSongIn | Harold and Maude ⓘ |
| writer | Cat Stevens ⓘ |
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: Don’t Be Shy Description of subject: "Don’t Be Shy" is a folk song by Cat Stevens, best known for its prominent use on the soundtrack of the 1971 cult film *Harold and Maude*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.