I Didn't Know What Time It Was
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"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" is a popular 1939 show tune by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart that has become a widely recorded jazz and pop standard.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T529252 — 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: I Didn't Know What Time It Was Context triple: [Richard Rodgers, notableWork, I Didn't Know What Time It Was]
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A.
This Time
"This Time" is a song featured on the album "Evolver" by the Christian rock band John Legend.
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B.
Didn't We Almost Have It All
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" is a power ballad by Whitney Houston that became one of her major hit singles in the late 1980s.
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C.
You Don't Know My Name
"You Don't Know My Name" is a soulful R&B song by Alicia Keys, acclaimed for its nostalgic production, storytelling lyrics, and Keys' powerful vocal performance.
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D.
Only One Year
"Only One Year" is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her experiences and disillusionment with life in the Soviet Union.
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E.
She Don’t Have to Know
"She Don’t Have to Know" is an R&B song by John Legend from his debut studio album "Get Lifted," known for its soulful vocals and themes of secret romance.
- 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: I Didn't Know What Time It Was Target entity description: "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" is a popular 1939 show tune by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart that has become a widely recorded jazz and pop standard.
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A.
This Time
"This Time" is a song featured on the album "Evolver" by the Christian rock band John Legend.
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B.
Didn't We Almost Have It All
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" is a power ballad by Whitney Houston that became one of her major hit singles in the late 1980s.
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C.
You Don't Know My Name
"You Don't Know My Name" is a soulful R&B song by Alicia Keys, acclaimed for its nostalgic production, storytelling lyrics, and Keys' powerful vocal performance.
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D.
Only One Year
"Only One Year" is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her experiences and disillusionment with life in the Soviet Union.
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E.
She Don’t Have to Know
"She Don’t Have to Know" is an R&B song by John Legend from his debut studio album "Get Lifted," known for its soulful vocals and themes of secret romance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
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pop standard ⓘ show tune ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | Richard Rodgers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| era | 1930s popular music ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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show tune ⓘ traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later jazz interpretations of show tunes ⓘ |
| hasLyricalStyle | characteristic Lorenz Hart wordplay and romantic theme ⓘ |
| hasLyricsBy | Lorenz Hart ⓘ |
| hasMelodicStyle | typical Richard Rodgers melodic writing ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Richard Rodgers ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
emotional awakening
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romantic love ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Lorenz Hart ⓘ |
| notableFor | becoming a widely recorded jazz standard ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage musical ⓘ |
| partOf | American songbook repertoire ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| recordingTradition |
frequently recorded by jazz instrumentalists
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frequently recorded by jazz vocalists ⓘ recorded by pop singers ⓘ |
| usedIn |
jazz repertoire
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pop repertoire ⓘ |
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: I Didn't Know What Time It Was Description of subject: "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" is a popular 1939 show tune by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart that has become a widely recorded jazz and pop standard.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (song)
this entity surface form:
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (jazz standard)
this entity surface form:
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (popular song)