Manhattan (song)
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"Manhattan" is a popular 1925 show tune with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, celebrated for its witty, romantic depiction of New York City.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Manhattan (jazz standard) | 1 |
| Manhattan (popular song) | 1 |
| Manhattan (song) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T529431 — 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: Manhattan (song) Context triple: [Richard Rodgers, notableWork, Manhattan (song)]
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A.
Lights of New York
Lights of New York is a 1928 American crime film historically recognized as the first all-talking feature-length movie.
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B.
Harlem Nights
Harlem Nights is a 1989 crime-comedy film set in 1930s Harlem, written, directed by, and starring Eddie Murphy alongside Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx.
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C.
Living for the City
"Living for the City" is a socially conscious 1973 soul song by Stevie Wonder that powerfully depicts systemic racism and urban struggle through vivid storytelling and innovative production.
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D.
New Metropolis
New Metropolis was the original name of Amsterdam’s futuristic, hands-on science and technology center now known as the NEMO Science Museum.
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E.
City of Big Shoulders
City of Big Shoulders is a poetic nickname for Chicago that evokes its history as a powerful industrial and working-class metropolis.
- 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: Manhattan (song) Target entity description: "Manhattan" is a popular 1925 show tune with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, celebrated for its witty, romantic depiction of New York City.
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A.
Lights of New York
Lights of New York is a 1928 American crime film historically recognized as the first all-talking feature-length movie.
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B.
Harlem Nights
Harlem Nights is a 1989 crime-comedy film set in 1930s Harlem, written, directed by, and starring Eddie Murphy alongside Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx.
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C.
Living for the City
"Living for the City" is a socially conscious 1973 soul song by Stevie Wonder that powerfully depicts systemic racism and urban struggle through vivid storytelling and innovative production.
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D.
New Metropolis
New Metropolis was the original name of Amsterdam’s futuristic, hands-on science and technology center now known as the NEMO Science Museum.
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E.
City of Big Shoulders
City of Big Shoulders is a poetic nickname for Chicago that evokes its history as a powerful industrial and working-class metropolis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
popular song
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Richard Rodgers
ⓘ
surface form:
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
|
| composer | Richard Rodgers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| era | 1920s ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| genre |
popular music
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later songs about New York City ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
life in New York City
ⓘ
urban romance ⓘ |
| isStandardIn | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalStyle |
romantic
ⓘ
witty ⓘ |
| lyricist | Lorenz Hart ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Lorenz Hart ⓘ |
| musicBy | Richard Rodgers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
romantic depiction of New York City
ⓘ
witty depiction of New York City ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage musical ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great American Songbook
ⓘ
surface form:
American popular songbook
|
| publicationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| setting |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| title | Manhattan ⓘ |
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: Manhattan (song) Description of subject: "Manhattan" is a popular 1925 show tune with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, celebrated for its witty, romantic depiction of New York City.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Manhattan (jazz standard)
this entity surface form:
Manhattan (popular song)