Cups (When I’m Gone)
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"Cups (When I’m Gone)" is a popular a cappella-style song, adapted from a traditional folk tune and cup-tapping game, that gained widespread fame through Anna Kendrick’s performance in the Pitch Perfect film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cups (When I’m Gone) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13148138 — 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)
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Target entity: Cups (When I’m Gone) Context triple: [Pitch Perfect (film series), notableSongPerformance, Cups (When I’m Gone)]
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A.
Empty Cup
"Empty Cup" is a song featured on Shakira's album "Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran."
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B.
When I'm Gone
"When I'm Gone" is a post-grunge rock song by American band 3 Doors Down, known for its emotive lyrics about love, absence, and devotion.
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C.
When I'm Gone
"When I'm Gone" is a reflective folk song by American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs that contemplates mortality and the urgency of acting for justice and love while still alive.
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D.
So Gone
"So Gone" is an R&B song best known as a 2003 hit single by Monica, produced by Missy Elliott and Kanye West.
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E.
So Gone
So Gone is a creative work by Jamahl Rye, recognized as one of his notable contributions to his field.
- 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: Cups (When I’m Gone) Target entity description: "Cups (When I’m Gone)" is a popular a cappella-style song, adapted from a traditional folk tune and cup-tapping game, that gained widespread fame through Anna Kendrick’s performance in the Pitch Perfect film series.
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A.
Empty Cup
"Empty Cup" is a song featured on Shakira's album "Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran."
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B.
When I'm Gone
"When I'm Gone" is a post-grunge rock song by American band 3 Doors Down, known for its emotive lyrics about love, absence, and devotion.
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C.
When I'm Gone
"When I'm Gone" is a reflective folk song by American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs that contemplates mortality and the urgency of acting for justice and love while still alive.
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D.
So Gone
So Gone is a creative work by Jamahl Rye, recognized as one of his notable contributions to his field.
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E.
So Gone
"So Gone" is an R&B song best known as a 2003 hit single by Monica, produced by Missy Elliott and Kanye West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| basedOn |
When I’m Gone (The Carter Family song)
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cup game ⓘ traditional folk song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| derivesFrom | American folk music tradition ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTitle |
Cups
ⓘ
The Cup Song ⓘ |
| hasArrangement | solo voice with cup percussion ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
inspired viral cup song videos
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popularized cup-tapping game as musical performance ⓘ |
| hasLyrics |
I got my ticket for the long way ’round
ⓘ
You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
cup-tapping rhythm pattern
ⓘ
hand percussion ⓘ minimal accompaniment ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
departure
ⓘ
longing ⓘ missing someone ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicGenre |
a cappella
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Pitch Perfect franchise
ⓘ
integration of a children’s cup game into a pop song ⓘ widespread popularity on social media ⓘ |
| originallyFeaturedIn |
Pitch Perfect soundtrack
ⓘ
linked to:
Pitch Perfect (2012 film score)
|
| partOf |
Pitch Perfect (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Pitch Perfect (2012 film)
Pitch Perfect film series ⓘ
linked to:
Pitch Perfect (film series)
|
| performer | Anna Kendrick ⓘ |
| popularizedBy |
Anna Kendrick’s performance
ⓘ
Pitch Perfect (2012 film) ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Anna Kendrick ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | digital download ⓘ |
| tempo | moderate ⓘ |
| usesInstrument | plastic cup (as percussion) ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | a cappella-style vocals ⓘ |
| vocalType | female lead vocal ⓘ |
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: Cups (When I’m Gone) Description of subject: "Cups (When I’m Gone)" is a popular a cappella-style song, adapted from a traditional folk tune and cup-tapping game, that gained widespread fame through Anna Kendrick’s performance in the Pitch Perfect film series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.