I Want to Be Happy
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"I Want to Be Happy" is a jazz standard from the 1925 musical "No, No, Nanette," widely performed and recorded by numerous jazz artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Want to Be Happy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8893377 — 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 Want to Be Happy Context triple: [Erroll Garner Plays Misty, hasTrack, I Want to Be Happy]
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A.
Sometimes I’m Happy
"Sometimes I’m Happy" is a popular jazz standard from the 1920s that has been widely recorded and performed by leading swing and big band artists.
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B.
I Hope You're Happy
"I Hope You're Happy" is a studio album by American rock band Blue October that blends alternative rock with emotional, introspective lyrics and anthemic melodies.
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C.
I Don't Want to Be
"I Don't Want to Be" is a 2003 pop-rock song by Gavin DeGraw best known as the theme song for the television series One Tree Hill.
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D.
I Wanna Be
"I Wanna Be" is a song featured on the collaborative blues-rock album "Riding with the King" by B.B. King and Eric Clapton.
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E.
I Wanna Be Well
"I Wanna Be Well" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, known for its fast tempo, sardonic lyrics, and appearance on their 1977 album Rocket to Russia.
- 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 Want to Be Happy Target entity description: "I Want to Be Happy" is a jazz standard from the 1925 musical "No, No, Nanette," widely performed and recorded by numerous jazz artists.
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A.
Sometimes I’m Happy
"Sometimes I’m Happy" is a popular jazz standard from the 1920s that has been widely recorded and performed by leading swing and big band artists.
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B.
I Hope You're Happy
"I Hope You're Happy" is a studio album by American rock band Blue October that blends alternative rock with emotional, introspective lyrics and anthemic melodies.
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C.
I Don't Want to Be
"I Don't Want to Be" is a 2003 pop-rock song by Gavin DeGraw best known as the theme song for the television series One Tree Hill.
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D.
I Wanna Be
"I Wanna Be" is a song featured on the collaborative blues-rock album "Riding with the King" by B.B. King and Eric Clapton.
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E.
I Wanna Be Well
"I Wanna Be Well" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, known for its fast tempo, sardonic lyrics, and appearance on their 1977 album Rocket to Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| composer | Vincent Youmans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPerformanceContext | Broadway musical ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasLyricsBy | Irving Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Vincent Youmans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Al Jolson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
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| isFromMusical | No, No, Nanette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Irving Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalTheatreDebut | No, No, Nanette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage musical ⓘ |
| partOfWork | No, No, Nanette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| yearOfMusical | 1925 ⓘ |
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 Want to Be Happy Description of subject: "I Want to Be Happy" is a jazz standard from the 1925 musical "No, No, Nanette," widely performed and recorded by numerous jazz artists.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.