Something to Live For
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"Something to Live For" is a jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn, known for its poignant melody and sophisticated harmonies, and popularized through performances with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Something to Live For canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6978998 — 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: Something to Live For Context triple: [Billy Strayhorn, notableWork, Something to Live For]
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A.
This Is What I Live For
"This Is What I Live For" is a studio album by American alternative rock band Blue October, showcasing their emotionally charged lyrics and atmospheric rock sound.
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B.
Life to Me
"Life to Me" is a song featured on the debut studio album *The 18th Day* by British singer-songwriter Estelle.
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C.
For Us, the Living
"For Us, the Living" is a memoir by civil rights activist Myrlie Evers recounting the life, assassination, and legacy of her husband, NAACP leader Medgar Evers, and her own role in the civil rights movement.
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D.
Live and Let Live
"Live and Let Live" is a song by English musician Peter Gabriel, known for his innovative, genre-blending rock and art-pop style.
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E.
I Lived
"I Lived" is a pop rock song by OneRepublic, written by lead vocalist Ryan Tedder, known for its uplifting message about embracing life fully.
- 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: Something to Live For Target entity description: "Something to Live For" is a jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn, known for its poignant melody and sophisticated harmonies, and popularized through performances with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
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A.
This Is What I Live For
"This Is What I Live For" is a studio album by American alternative rock band Blue October, showcasing their emotionally charged lyrics and atmospheric rock sound.
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B.
Life to Me
"Life to Me" is a song featured on the debut studio album *The 18th Day* by British singer-songwriter Estelle.
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C.
For Us, the Living
"For Us, the Living" is a memoir by civil rights activist Myrlie Evers recounting the life, assassination, and legacy of her husband, NAACP leader Medgar Evers, and her own role in the civil rights movement.
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D.
Live and Let Live
"Live and Let Live" is a song by English musician Peter Gabriel, known for his innovative, genre-blending rock and art-pop style.
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E.
I Lived
"I Lived" is a pop rock song by OneRepublic, written by lead vocalist Ryan Tedder, known for its uplifting message about embracing life fully.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | jazz standard ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Duke Ellington Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedArtist | Duke Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Billy Strayhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPerformer | Duke Ellington Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasForm | song form ⓘ |
| hasHarmonyCharacteristic | sophisticated harmonies ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | modern jazz ballad repertoire ⓘ |
| hasMelodyCharacteristic | poignant melody ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
emphasis on expressive phrasing
ⓘ
lyrical, expressive melody line ⓘ rich, chromatic harmony ⓘ |
| hasStyle | ballad ⓘ |
| hasTempo | slow ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional introspection
ⓘ
romantic longing ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith | Billy Strayhorn–Duke Ellington collaboration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isConsidered | jazz standard of the 20th century ⓘ |
| isPartOf | American songbook tradition ⓘ |
| isPerformedInContext |
big band arrangements
ⓘ
small jazz ensembles ⓘ |
| isRecordedInMedium |
live jazz performances
ⓘ
studio recordings ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Billy Strayhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Billy Strayhorn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carmen McRae NERFINISHED ⓘ Duke Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Hodges NERFINISHED ⓘ Nina Simone NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Vaughan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfRepertoireOf |
Carmen McRae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duke Ellington Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Vaughan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalInstrumentation |
piano trio accompaniment
ⓘ
voice and jazz ensemble ⓘ |
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: Something to Live For Description of subject: "Something to Live For" is a jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn, known for its poignant melody and sophisticated harmonies, and popularized through performances with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.