"It ain't over 'til it's over"
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"It ain't over 'til it's over" is a famous Yogi Berra quote encapsulating the idea that an outcome is not decided until the very end.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "It ain't over 'til it's over" canonical | 1 |
| "It ain’t over till it’s over" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3046766 — 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: "It ain't over 'til it's over" Context triple: [Yogi Berra, notableWork, "It ain't over 'til it's over"]
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A.
It Ain't Over 'til It's Over
"It Ain't Over 'til It's Over" is a soulful, retro-inspired ballad by Lenny Kravitz that became one of his signature hits in the early 1990s.
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B.
Time Enough at Last
"Time Enough at Last" is a classic 1959 episode of the anthology series The Twilight Zone, famous for its twist ending involving a bookish man who survives a nuclear catastrophe.
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C.
Don’t Give Up
"Don’t Give Up" is a poignant 1986 duet by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush that blends art rock and pop to explore themes of despair, resilience, and emotional support.
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D.
Never Really Over
"Never Really Over" is a 2019 electropop single by American singer Katy Perry that explores the lingering emotions of a past relationship.
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E.
Sportin’ Life
Sportin’ Life is the slick, cynical drug dealer and gambler who serves as a charismatic antagonist in George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*.
- 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: "It ain't over 'til it's over" Target entity description: "It ain't over 'til it's over" is a famous Yogi Berra quote encapsulating the idea that an outcome is not decided until the very end.
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A.
It Ain't Over 'til It's Over
"It Ain't Over 'til It's Over" is a soulful, retro-inspired ballad by Lenny Kravitz that became one of his signature hits in the early 1990s.
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B.
Time Enough at Last
"Time Enough at Last" is a classic 1959 episode of the anthology series The Twilight Zone, famous for its twist ending involving a bookish man who survives a nuclear catastrophe.
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C.
Don’t Give Up
"Don’t Give Up" is a poignant 1986 duet by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush that blends art rock and pop to explore themes of despair, resilience, and emotional support.
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D.
Never Really Over
"Never Really Over" is a 2019 electropop single by American singer Katy Perry that explores the lingering emotions of a past relationship.
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E.
Sportin’ Life
Sportin’ Life is the slick, cynical drug dealer and gambler who serves as a charismatic antagonist in George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aphorism
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catchphrase ⓘ idiom ⓘ quotation ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American popular culture
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Major League Baseball ⓘ New York Yankees ⓘ |
| attributedTo | Yogi Berra ⓘ |
| author | Yogi Berra ⓘ |
| containsContraction |
'til
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ain't ⓘ |
| conveysAttitude |
optimism
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resilience ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | well-known American saying ⓘ |
| grammaticalForm | colloquial ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
late reversals
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not giving up ⓘ perseverance ⓘ uncertainty of outcomes ⓘ |
| implies |
events can change until the final moment
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keep trying until the end ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| meaning |
an outcome is not decided until the very end
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one should not assume victory or defeat prematurely ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of Yogi Berra's most famous quotes ⓘ |
| register | informal ⓘ |
| rhetoricalDevice |
repetition
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tautology ⓘ |
| usedAs |
motivational slogan
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sports cliché ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
baseball
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business ⓘ competitive situations ⓘ politics ⓘ sports ⓘ |
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: "It ain't over 'til it's over" Description of subject: "It ain't over 'til it's over" is a famous Yogi Berra quote encapsulating the idea that an outcome is not decided until the very end.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yogi Berra
this entity surface form:
"It ain’t over till it’s over"