I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
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"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a 1988 upbeat Scottish pop-rock song by The Proclaimers, best known for its catchy chorus about walking 500 miles for love and its enduring popularity in films, TV, and sporting events.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) canonical | 4 |
| I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) | 4 |
| "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" | 1 |
| the song I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10488597 — 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'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Context triple: [The Proclaimers, notableWork, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)]
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A.
900 Miles
"900 Miles" is a traditional American folk song popularized by Cisco Houston, known for its themes of wandering, distance, and homesickness.
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B.
I'm Gonna Be
"I'm Gonna Be" is a song featured on the album *The 18th Day* by British singer-songwriter Estelle.
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C.
A Million Miles Away
A Million Miles Away is a 2023 biographical drama film that chronicles the life of NASA astronaut José Hernández, depicting his journey from migrant farmworker to space traveler.
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D.
Million Miles
"Million Miles" is a blues-influenced outtake from Bob Dylan’s 1997 sessions later released on his compilation album "The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs."
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E.
Keep Right On
"Keep Right On" is a traditional football anthem passionately sung by Birmingham City F.C. supporters as a symbol of loyalty and perseverance.
- 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'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Target entity description: "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a 1988 upbeat Scottish pop-rock song by The Proclaimers, best known for its catchy chorus about walking 500 miles for love and its enduring popularity in films, TV, and sporting events.
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A.
900 Miles
"900 Miles" is a traditional American folk song popularized by Cisco Houston, known for its themes of wandering, distance, and homesickness.
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B.
I'm Gonna Be
"I'm Gonna Be" is a song featured on the album *The 18th Day* by British singer-songwriter Estelle.
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C.
A Million Miles Away
A Million Miles Away is a 2023 biographical drama film that chronicles the life of NASA astronaut José Hernández, depicting his journey from migrant farmworker to space traveler.
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D.
Million Miles
"Million Miles" is a blues-influenced outtake from Bob Dylan’s 1997 sessions later released on his compilation album "The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs."
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E.
Keep Right On
"Keep Right On" is a traditional football anthem passionately sung by Birmingham City F.C. supporters as a symbol of loyalty and perseverance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Sunshine on Leith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | The Proclaimers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Proclaimers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certificationAustralia | Multi-Platinum ⓘ |
| certificationUK | Platinum ⓘ |
| certificationUS | Platinum ⓘ |
| chartPositionAustralia | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionIrelandsingles | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionNewZealand | 1 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUKSingles | 11 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 3 ⓘ |
| composer |
Charlie Reid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Craig Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalStatus |
cult classic
ⓘ
stadium anthem ⓘ |
| genre |
Scottish pop
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion |
Sleeping at Last cover
ⓘ
Steven Curtis Chapman cover ⓘ The cast of How I Met Your Mother cover ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | yes ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Sunshine on Leith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
long-distance love
ⓘ
romantic devotion ⓘ |
| musicVideoDirector | Peter Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLyric |
And I would walk 500 more
ⓘ
But I would walk 500 miles ⓘ |
| performer | The Proclaimers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Pete Wingfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1987–1988 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Chrysalis Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1988-08-08 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| shortTitle | 500 Miles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tempo | upbeat ⓘ |
| title | I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAtEvents |
charity events
ⓘ
sporting events ⓘ weddings ⓘ |
| usedInFilm |
Benny & Joon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
How I Met Your Mother (TV series episode soundtracks) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInTelevision |
Family Guy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ Scrubs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Charlie Reid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Craig Reid 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: I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Description of subject: "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a 1988 upbeat Scottish pop-rock song by The Proclaimers, best known for its catchy chorus about walking 500 miles for love and its enduring popularity in films, TV, and sporting events.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the song I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
this entity surface form:
"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
this entity surface form:
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
this entity surface form:
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
this entity surface form:
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
this entity surface form:
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)