World on a String
E515310
"World on a String" is a song best known as a classic pop standard popularized by Frank Sinatra and other traditional pop and jazz vocalists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| World on a String canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5374597 — 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: World on a String Context triple: [Tonight's the Night, hasPart, World on a String]
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A.
No Strings
No Strings is a 1962 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers, notable for being his first show without longtime collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II and for its jazz-influenced score.
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B.
The Unstrung Harp
The Unstrung Harp is a darkly comic illustrated novella by Edward Gorey that follows the misadventures and anxieties of an aging novelist as he struggles to write his latest book.
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C.
What a World
"What a World" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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D.
The World Over
The World Over is a weekly Catholic news and commentary television program hosted by Raymond Arroyo that covers current events, culture, and issues affecting the Church and the world.
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E.
Tightrope
Tightrope is a 1984 neo-noir crime thriller film starring Clint Eastwood as a New Orleans detective tracking a serial killer while confronting his own darker impulses.
- 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: World on a String Target entity description: "World on a String" is a song best known as a classic pop standard popularized by Frank Sinatra and other traditional pop and jazz vocalists.
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A.
No Strings
No Strings is a 1962 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers, notable for being his first show without longtime collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II and for its jazz-influenced score.
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B.
The Unstrung Harp
The Unstrung Harp is a darkly comic illustrated novella by Edward Gorey that follows the misadventures and anxieties of an aging novelist as he struggles to write his latest book.
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C.
What a World
"What a World" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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D.
The World Over
The World Over is a weekly Catholic news and commentary television program hosted by Raymond Arroyo that covers current events, culture, and issues affecting the Church and the world.
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E.
Tightrope
Tightrope is a 1984 neo-noir crime thriller film starring Clint Eastwood as a New Orleans detective tracking a serial killer while confronting his own darker impulses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pop standard
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
traditional pop
ⓘ
vocal jazz ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
adult contemporary listeners
ⓘ
jazz enthusiasts ⓘ traditional pop fans ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecordingBy |
Frank Sinatra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Bublé NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPerformerType |
jazz vocalist
ⓘ
traditional pop vocalist ⓘ |
| isStandardFor |
jazz vocal repertoire
ⓘ
traditional pop repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Frank Sinatra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Bublé NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Great American Songbook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalEnsemble |
big band
ⓘ
jazz combo ⓘ |
| typicalPerformanceContext |
concert
ⓘ
jazz festival ⓘ nightclub ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | crooning ⓘ |
| vocalType | male vocal ⓘ |
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: World on a String Description of subject: "World on a String" is a song best known as a classic pop standard popularized by Frank Sinatra and other traditional pop and jazz vocalists.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.