Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
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"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" is a popular 1956 song made famous by Doris Day, known for its optimistic, philosophical refrain about accepting the future.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) canonical | 5 |
| "Que Sera, Sera" | 1 |
| "Que Será Será" | 1 |
| Que Sera Sera | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4570154 — 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: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) Context triple: [29th Academy Awards, bestSongWinner, Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)]
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A.
Swinging on a Star
"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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B.
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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C.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
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D.
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.
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E.
Song Sung Blue
"Song Sung Blue" is a 1972 soft rock hit by Neil Diamond that became one of his signature songs and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- 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: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) Target entity description: "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" is a popular 1956 song made famous by Doris Day, known for its optimistic, philosophical refrain about accepting the future.
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A.
Swinging on a Star
"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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B.
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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C.
It Must Be You
"It Must Be You" is a song featured on Dolly Parton's 1974 country album "Jolene."
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D.
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.
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E.
Song Sung Blue
"Song Sung Blue" is a 1972 soft rock hit by Neil Diamond that became one of his signature songs and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| academyAwardCategory | Best Original Song ⓘ |
| associatedCatchphrase | Que sera, sera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| composer | Jay Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coveredBy | many artists worldwide ⓘ |
| culturalStatus |
popular standard of the 1950s
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standard ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
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| filmDirectorAssociated | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmStarAssociated |
Doris Day
NERFINISHED
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James Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstReleaseDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| genre |
pop
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traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasChorusLine | Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general popular music audience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
acceptance of the future
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optimism ⓘ philosophical reflection on fate ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ray Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| madeFamousBy | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | sound recording ⓘ |
| message | the future is uncertain and beyond control ⓘ |
| mood |
optimistic
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reassuring ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Doris Day’s film career
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memorable philosophical refrain ⓘ |
| performer | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| questionsAddressedByChild | What will I be? ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| refrainMeaning | Whatever will be, will be NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Que Sera, Sera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | verse-chorus form ⓘ |
| tempo | moderate ⓘ |
| title | Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAsSignatureSongOf | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInFilm | The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonAward | Academy Award for Best Original Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Jay Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) Description of subject: "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" is a popular 1956 song made famous by Doris Day, known for its optimistic, philosophical refrain about accepting the future.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
"Que Sera, Sera"
Detective Michael Tritter in House
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appearsInEpisode
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Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
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subject surface form:
Detective Michael Tritter
this entity surface form:
"Que Será Será"
this entity surface form:
Que Sera Sera