The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

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"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a soulful ballad most famously performed by Roberta Flack, whose 1972 recording became a major hit and won multiple Grammy Awards.

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Label Occurrences
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face canonical 3

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf single
song
album First Take NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (song) NERFINISHED
associatedWithGenre pop
soul
breakthroughHitFor Roberta Flack NERFINISHED
chartPositionCanadaRPMTopSingles 1
chartPositionUSAdultContemporary 1
chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 1
composer Ewan MacColl NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
decadeOfOrigin 1950s
filmUseYear 1971
firstPerformanceBy Peggy Seeger NERFINISHED
genre folk
soul
GrammyAward Grammy Award for Record of the Year NERFINISHED
Grammy Award for Song of the Year NERFINISHED
GrammyAwardsYear 1973
hasISWC T-010.140.248-3
hasNotableRecognition included in various greatest songs lists
language English
length about 4:20
lyricist Ewan MacColl NERFINISHED
notableCoverArtist Celine Dion NERFINISHED
Elvis Presley NERFINISHED
George Michael NERFINISHED
Johnny Cash NERFINISHED
Leona Lewis NERFINISHED
Roberta Flack NERFINISHED
notableRecording The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack recording) NERFINISHED
performer Roberta Flack NERFINISHED
producer Joel Dorn NERFINISHED
recordLabel Atlantic Records
releaseYear 1969
singleReleaseYear 1972
tempo slow
theme romantic love
usedInFilm Play Misty for Me NERFINISHED
vocalStyle soulful
weeksAtNumberOneUSBillboardHot100 6
writtenFor Peggy Seeger NERFINISHED

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: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Description of subject: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a soulful ballad most famously performed by Roberta Flack, whose 1972 recording became a major hit and won multiple Grammy Awards.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Roberta Flack notableWork The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Roberta Flack notableSong The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
All Directions includesTrack The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face