Swinging on a Star
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"Swinging on a Star" is a popular 1944 American song, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swinging on a Star canonical | 5 |
| Swinging on a Star (Bing Crosby single) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2666886 — 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: Swinging on a Star Context triple: [Jimmy Van Heusen, notableWork, Swinging on a Star]
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A.
The Way You Look Tonight
"The Way You Look Tonight" is a classic popular song, introduced by Fred Astaire and later an Academy Award winner, that has become a jazz and pop standard covered by numerous artists.
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B.
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic ballad from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enduring songs in American popular music.
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C.
Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded and performed since its debut in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.
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D.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
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E.
All the Things You Are
"All the Things You Are" is a 1939 jazz standard and popular song, renowned for its sophisticated harmony and enduring presence in both the Great American Songbook and jazz repertoire.
- 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: Swinging on a Star Target entity description: "Swinging on a Star" is a popular 1944 American song, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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A.
The Way You Look Tonight
"The Way You Look Tonight" is a classic popular song, introduced by Fred Astaire and later an Academy Award winner, that has become a jazz and pop standard covered by numerous artists.
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B.
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic ballad from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enduring songs in American popular music.
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C.
Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded and performed since its debut in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.
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D.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
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E.
All the Things You Are
"All the Things You Are" is a 1939 jazz standard and popular song, renowned for its sophisticated harmony and enduring presence in both the Great American Songbook and jazz repertoire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American song
ⓘ
film song ⓘ popular song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Academy Award
ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Awards
Bing Crosby films ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| composer | Jimmy Van Heusen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decade | 1940s ⓘ |
| featuredInFilm | Going My Way ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| firstPerformer | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| genre |
popular music
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | became a standard of American popular music ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | song form ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
education
ⓘ
moral choices ⓘ self-improvement ⓘ |
| isTitleTrackOf |
Swinging on a Star
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Swinging on a Star (Bing Crosby single)
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Johnny Burke ⓘ |
| lyricMotif | comparison of human behavior to animals ⓘ |
| musicType | vocal ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | second person ⓘ |
| notableLyric | "Would you like to swing on a star" ⓘ |
| originalMedium | motion picture soundtrack ⓘ |
| partOfRepertoireOf |
Bing Crosby
ⓘ
traditional pop singers ⓘ |
| performedBy | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Decca Records ⓘ |
| tempo | moderate ⓘ |
| usedInMedium |
film
ⓘ
radio ⓘ recordings ⓘ |
| writtenFor | Going My Way ⓘ |
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: Swinging on a Star Description of subject: "Swinging on a Star" is a popular 1944 American song, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Swinging on a Star (Bing Crosby single)