"My Way"
E114776
"My Way" is a punk rock cover of the classic pop standard, famously performed by Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious with sneering, anarchic lyrics and attitude.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| My Way | 4 |
| "My Way" canonical | 1 |
| My Way (cover version) | 1 |
| My Way (song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T974234 — 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: "My Way" Context triple: [Sid Vicious, notableSong, "My Way"]
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A.
Time to Say Goodbye
"Time to Say Goodbye" is a popular classical crossover song, famously performed by Andrea Bocelli (often with Sarah Brightman), known for its powerful, emotional melody and widespread use at major public events and ceremonies.
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B.
Impossible Dream
"Impossible Dream" is the inspirational nickname given to the 1967 Boston Red Sox season, symbolizing their unexpected and dramatic rise from mediocrity to American League champions.
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C.
Save the Last Dance for Me
"Save the Last Dance for Me" is a classic early-1960s pop and R&B song, popularized by Ben E. King as lead singer of The Drifters, known for its romantic lyrics and memorable melody.
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D.
Wind Beneath My Wings
"Wind Beneath My Wings" is a popular power ballad best known from Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning rendition featured in the 1988 film *Beaches*.
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E.
Take a Chance on Me
"Take a Chance on Me" is a hit pop song by the Swedish group ABBA, known for its catchy harmonies and prominent use in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!".
- 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: "My Way" Target entity description: "My Way" is a punk rock cover of the classic pop standard, famously performed by Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious with sneering, anarchic lyrics and attitude.
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A.
Time to Say Goodbye
"Time to Say Goodbye" is a popular classical crossover song, famously performed by Andrea Bocelli (often with Sarah Brightman), known for its powerful, emotional melody and widespread use at major public events and ceremonies.
-
B.
Impossible Dream
"Impossible Dream" is the inspirational nickname given to the 1967 Boston Red Sox season, symbolizing their unexpected and dramatic rise from mediocrity to American League champions.
-
C.
Save the Last Dance for Me
"Save the Last Dance for Me" is a classic early-1960s pop and R&B song, popularized by Ben E. King as lead singer of The Drifters, known for its romantic lyrics and memorable melody.
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D.
Wind Beneath My Wings
"Wind Beneath My Wings" is a popular power ballad best known from Bette Midler’s Grammy-winning rendition featured in the 1988 film *Beaches*.
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E.
Take a Chance on Me
"Take a Chance on Me" is a hit pop song by the Swedish group ABBA, known for its catchy harmonies and prominent use in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
punk rock song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Sex Pistols ⓘ |
| basedOn |
My Way (song)
ⓘ
linked to:
"My Way"
|
| culturalImpact | became an emblematic punk-era parody of mainstream pop ⓘ |
| genre | punk rock ⓘ |
| hasAttitude |
anarchic
ⓘ
confrontational ⓘ |
| hasLyricsCharacteristic |
anarchic
ⓘ
sneering ⓘ |
| hasMusicalCharacteristic |
aggressive rhythm
ⓘ
distorted guitars ⓘ fast punk arrangement ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
defiance
ⓘ
mockery of traditional pop standards ⓘ rebellion ⓘ |
| isCoverOf | My Way (Frank Sinatra version) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive reinterpretation of the classic pop standard My Way
ⓘ
association with the Sex Pistols image and legacy ⓘ |
| notablePerformanceContext | performed in the late 1970s punk era ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfSource | French ⓘ |
| originalLyricist | Paul Anka ⓘ |
| originalSongwriter |
Claude François
ⓘ
Jacques Revaux ⓘ |
| performanceStyle | punk rock performance art ⓘ |
| performer | Sid Vicious ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Sid Vicious ⓘ |
| vocalist | Sid Vicious ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | sneering vocal delivery ⓘ |
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: "My Way" Description of subject: "My Way" is a punk rock cover of the classic pop standard, famously performed by Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious with sneering, anarchic lyrics and attitude.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: "My Way"
linked to: "My Way"
linked to: "My Way"
linked to: "My Way"
subject linked to:
"My Way"
linked to: "My Way"
linked to: "My Way"