The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)
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"The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)" is a 1964 pop song, originally recorded by Betty Everett, that became widely known through Cher’s hit 1990s cover featured in the film "Mermaids."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shoop Shoop Song | 1 |
| The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) | 1 |
| The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss) canonical | 1 |
| “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3972347 — 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: The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss) Context triple: [Cher, notableWork, The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)]
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A.
Makin’ Whoopee
"Makin’ Whoopee" is a popular jazz and pop standard, often performed as a playful, romantic duet and widely recorded by notable vocalists.
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B.
Doo Wop (That Thing)
"Doo Wop (That Thing)" is Lauryn Hill’s Grammy-winning 1998 debut solo single that blends hip hop, soul, and doo-wop influences while delivering sharp social commentary on relationships and self-respect.
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C.
Doin’ the Suzie-Q
"Doin’ the Suzie-Q" is a jazz composition associated with pioneering pianist, composer, and bandleader Lil Hardin Armstrong, reflecting her influential role in early jazz and swing-era music.
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D.
I Get a Kick Out of You
"I Get a Kick Out of You" is a classic popular song from the 1934 Broadway musical *Anything Goes*, renowned for its witty lyrics and enduring status as a jazz and pop standard.
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E.
Watermelon Man
"Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock that became one of his most famous and frequently covered tunes, blending soulful grooves with catchy, accessible melodies.
- 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: The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss) Target entity description: "The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)" is a 1964 pop song, originally recorded by Betty Everett, that became widely known through Cher’s hit 1990s cover featured in the film "Mermaids."
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A.
Makin’ Whoopee
"Makin’ Whoopee" is a popular jazz and pop standard, often performed as a playful, romantic duet and widely recorded by notable vocalists.
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B.
Doo Wop (That Thing)
"Doo Wop (That Thing)" is Lauryn Hill’s Grammy-winning 1998 debut solo single that blends hip hop, soul, and doo-wop influences while delivering sharp social commentary on relationships and self-respect.
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C.
Doin’ the Suzie-Q
"Doin’ the Suzie-Q" is a jazz composition associated with pioneering pianist, composer, and bandleader Lil Hardin Armstrong, reflecting her influential role in early jazz and swing-era music.
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D.
I Get a Kick Out of You
"I Get a Kick Out of You" is a classic popular song from the 1934 Broadway musical *Anything Goes*, renowned for its witty lyrics and enduring status as a jazz and pop standard.
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E.
Maybellene
Maybellene is a pioneering 1955 rock and roll song by Chuck Berry that helped define the genre with its driving rhythm and guitar work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
It’s in His Kiss
ⓘ
The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss) ⓘ
surface form:
The Shoop Shoop Song
|
| associatedAct |
Betty Everett
ⓘ
Cher ⓘ |
| composer | Rudy Clark ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverAssociatedWith |
Mermaids
ⓘ
surface form:
Mermaids soundtrack
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| coverPerformer | Cher ⓘ |
| coverPerformerNationality | American ⓘ |
| decadeOfOriginalRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| featuredInFilm | Mermaids ⓘ |
| filmFeatureYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| genre | pop ⓘ |
| hasChorusHook | shoop shoop ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
evaluating a lover’s feelings
ⓘ
romantic love ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Rudy Clark ⓘ |
| madeWidelyKnownBy | Cher’s 1990s cover ⓘ |
| notableCoverArtist |
Cher
ⓘ
Linda Lewis ⓘ Vonda Shepard ⓘ |
| originalLabel | Vee-Jay Records ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | Betty Everett ⓘ |
| originalPerformerNationality | American ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| titlePhraseRefersTo | testing love by a kiss ⓘ |
| usedAs | film soundtrack song ⓘ |
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: The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss) Description of subject: "The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)" is a 1964 pop song, originally recorded by Betty Everett, that became widely known through Cher’s hit 1990s cover featured in the film "Mermaids."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)
this entity surface form:
“The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)”
this entity surface form:
The Shoop Shoop Song