A Step in the Right Direction
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"A Step in the Right Direction" is a musical number from Disney's 1971 live-action/animated film *Bedknobs and Broomsticks*, sung by Angela Lansbury's character as she begins learning witchcraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Step in the Right Direction canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5228287 — 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: A Step in the Right Direction Context triple: [Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971 film songs), hasSong, A Step in the Right Direction]
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A.
One Step at a Time
"One Step at a Time" is a midtempo pop-R&B song by American singer Jordin Sparks that encourages patience and perseverance in pursuing one’s dreams.
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B.
Every Little Step
"Every Little Step" is a 1989 R&B/New Jack Swing hit single by Bobby Brown that became one of his signature songs and a major commercial success.
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C.
Step by Step
"Step by Step" is a 1990 pop song by New Kids on the Block that became one of their biggest hits and a defining track of early ’90s teen pop.
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D.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back is a 1904 political pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin that analyzes internal conflicts within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and defends his conception of a disciplined revolutionary party.
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E.
Turn to the Right
Turn to the Right is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film, directed by Rex Ingram, in which actress Alice Terry played one of her early notable roles.
- 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: A Step in the Right Direction Target entity description: "A Step in the Right Direction" is a musical number from Disney's 1971 live-action/animated film *Bedknobs and Broomsticks*, sung by Angela Lansbury's character as she begins learning witchcraft.
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A.
One Step at a Time
"One Step at a Time" is a midtempo pop-R&B song by American singer Jordin Sparks that encourages patience and perseverance in pursuing one’s dreams.
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B.
Every Little Step
"Every Little Step" is a 1989 R&B/New Jack Swing hit single by Bobby Brown that became one of his signature songs and a major commercial success.
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C.
Step by Step
"Step by Step" is a 1990 pop song by New Kids on the Block that became one of their biggest hits and a defining track of early ’90s teen pop.
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D.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back is a 1904 political pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin that analyzes internal conflicts within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and defends his conception of a disciplined revolutionary party.
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E.
Turn to the Right
Turn to the Right is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film, directed by Rex Ingram, in which actress Alice Terry played one of her early notable roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Bedknobs and Broomsticks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | musical fantasy film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Disney musical numbers of the 1970s ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Mary Norton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Bonfires and Broomsticks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Magic Bedknob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPerformedBy | Eglantine Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fictionalContext | learning witchcraft ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| franchise | Disney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
film soundtrack song
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action/animated film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
character development song
ⓘ
establishes Eglantine Price as apprentice witch ⓘ |
| partOf | Bedknobs and Broomsticks soundtrack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfWork | Bedknobs and Broomsticks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Angela Lansbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sungByCharacter | Eglantine Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | A Step in the Right Direction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn | scene where Eglantine Price begins learning witchcraft ⓘ |
| vocalPerformanceBy | Angela Lansbury 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: A Step in the Right Direction Description of subject: "A Step in the Right Direction" is a musical number from Disney's 1971 live-action/animated film *Bedknobs and Broomsticks*, sung by Angela Lansbury's character as she begins learning witchcraft.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.