Getting to Know You (song)
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"Getting to Know You" is a popular show tune from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I," known for its warm, introductory lyrics and enduring presence in American musical theatre.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T529353 — 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: Getting to Know You (song) Context triple: [Richard Rodgers, notableWork, Getting to Know You (song)]
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A.
I Got You
"I Got You" is an R&B ballad by Whitney Houston from her 2002 studio album "Just Whitney."
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B.
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.
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C.
Does Your Mother Know
"Does Your Mother Know" is an upbeat, rock-influenced ABBA song notable for its playful lyrics and prominent male lead vocals.
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D.
How Will I Know
"How Will I Know" is a 1985 upbeat pop and dance song by Whitney Houston that became one of her signature hits and helped establish her as a major international star.
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E.
That Girl
"That Girl" is a 1981 R&B/soul single by Stevie Wonder, known for its smooth groove, synthesizer-driven production, and chart success in the early 1980s.
- 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: Getting to Know You (song) Target entity description: "Getting to Know You" is a popular show tune from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I," known for its warm, introductory lyrics and enduring presence in American musical theatre.
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A.
I Got You
"I Got You" is an R&B ballad by Whitney Houston from her 2002 studio album "Just Whitney."
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B.
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.
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C.
Does Your Mother Know
"Does Your Mother Know" is an upbeat, rock-influenced ABBA song notable for its playful lyrics and prominent male lead vocals.
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D.
How Will I Know
"How Will I Know" is a 1985 upbeat pop and dance song by Whitney Houston that became one of her signature hits and helped establish her as a major international star.
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E.
That Girl
"That Girl" is a 1981 R&B/soul single by Stevie Wonder, known for its smooth groove, synthesizer-driven production, and chart success in the early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
show tune
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American musical theatre
ⓘ
Broadway theater ⓘ
surface form:
Broadway theatre
The King and I ⓘ
surface form:
The King and I (1951 musical)
|
| basedOnWork | Anna and the King of Siam ⓘ |
| composer | Richard Rodgers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalStatus | standard of the American songbook ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| fromMusical | The King and I ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre song
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ |
| hasEra |
Golden Age of Broadway (early phase)
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Broadway
|
| hasForm | solo with chorus ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later musical theatre character songs ⓘ |
| hasKey | major key ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme |
friendship
ⓘ
introduction ⓘ mutual understanding ⓘ |
| hasMood |
optimistic
ⓘ
warm ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | waltz-like ⓘ |
| hasRefrain | "Getting to know you, getting to know all about you" ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
cross-cultural understanding
ⓘ
teacher-student relationship ⓘ |
| includedIn |
1956 film soundtrack of The King and I
ⓘ
original Broadway cast recording of The King and I ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general theatre audiences ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
character development
ⓘ
establishing relationships ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Oscar Hammerstein II ⓘ |
| notableFilmPerformer |
Deborah Kerr
ⓘ
Marni Nixon ⓘ |
| notableFor |
enduring presence in American musical theatre
ⓘ
warm introductory lyrics ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage musical ⓘ |
| originalProductionLocation | Broadway ⓘ |
| originalStagePerformer | Gertrude Lawrence ⓘ |
| partOfWork | The King and I ⓘ |
| performanceContext | classroom scene in The King and I ⓘ |
| performedByCharacter |
Anna Leonowens
ⓘ
Siamese children ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| publisher | Williamson Music ⓘ |
| rightsHolder |
Rodgers and Hammerstein
ⓘ
surface form:
Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization
|
| tempo | moderate ⓘ |
| typicalInstrumentation | orchestra ⓘ |
| usedIn | 1956 film adaptation of The King and I ⓘ |
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: Getting to Know You (song) Description of subject: "Getting to Know You" is a popular show tune from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I," known for its warm, introductory lyrics and enduring presence in American musical theatre.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Getting to Know You (standard)
this entity surface form:
Getting to Know You (popular song)
this entity surface form:
"Getting to know you, getting to know all about you"
this entity surface form:
Getting to Know You (performance)