Getting Closer
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"Getting Closer" is a rock song by Paul McCartney and Wings, released in 1979 and known as one of the singles from their album Back to the Egg.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Getting Closer canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9395740 — 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 Closer Context triple: [Back to the Egg, hasTrack, Getting Closer]
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A.
Come Closer
"Come Closer" is a hit Afrobeats single by Nigerian artist Wizkid featuring Drake, known for its fusion of Afrobeat and dancehall and its international chart success.
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B.
Come a Little Bit Closer
"Come a Little Bit Closer" is a 1964 pop hit song by Jay and the Americans, known for its storytelling lyrics and Latin-flavored arrangement.
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C.
Up Close
Up Close is a sports interview television program hosted by Chris Myers that features in-depth conversations with prominent athletes and sports figures.
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D.
A Closer Look
A Closer Look is a recurring political and current-events commentary segment on Late Night with Seth Meyers known for its in-depth, satirical analysis of the news.
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E.
Come Close
"Come Close" is a soulful hip-hop single by Common, produced by The Neptunes and known for its intimate, romantic lyrics.
- 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 Closer Target entity description: "Getting Closer" is a rock song by Paul McCartney and Wings, released in 1979 and known as one of the singles from their album Back to the Egg.
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A.
Come Closer
"Come Closer" is a hit Afrobeats single by Nigerian artist Wizkid featuring Drake, known for its fusion of Afrobeat and dancehall and its international chart success.
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B.
Come a Little Bit Closer
"Come a Little Bit Closer" is a 1964 pop hit song by Jay and the Americans, known for its storytelling lyrics and Latin-flavored arrangement.
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C.
Up Close
Up Close is a sports interview television program hosted by Chris Myers that features in-depth conversations with prominent athletes and sports figures.
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D.
A Closer Look
A Closer Look is a recurring political and current-events commentary segment on Late Night with Seth Meyers known for its in-depth, satirical analysis of the news.
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E.
Come Close
"Come Close" is a soulful hip-hop single by Common, produced by The Neptunes and known for its intimate, romantic lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Back to the Egg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Paul McCartney
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chartPerformance |
UK Singles Chart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
US Billboard Hot 100 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Paul McCartney ⓘ |
| countryOfSingleRelease |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
Denny Laine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laurence Juber NERFINISHED ⓘ Linda McCartney NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Holley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fromAlbumSequence | Back to the Egg era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
power pop
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasBside | Spin It On NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormat | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
backing vocals
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ keyboards ⓘ |
| hasNotableEra | late 1970s ⓘ |
| hasSingleType | lead single in some markets ⓘ |
| hasTempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
| hasType | rock song ⓘ |
| includedIn | Back to the Egg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| label |
Columbia Records
ⓘ
EMI NERFINISHED ⓘ Parlophone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadVocal | Paul McCartney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricist | Paul McCartney ⓘ |
| partOf |
Paul McCartney discography
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wings discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfTourSetlist | Wings 1979 UK tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Paul McCartney and Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Chris Thomas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul McCartney ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod |
1978
ⓘ
1979 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| songLanguage | English ⓘ |
| writer | Paul McCartney 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: Getting Closer Description of subject: "Getting Closer" is a rock song by Paul McCartney and Wings, released in 1979 and known as one of the singles from their album Back to the Egg.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Back to the Egg
subject surface form:
Back to the Egg