It's a Small World (After All)
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"It's a Small World (After All)" is a famous, upbeat theme song written for the Disney attraction "It's a Small World," celebrated for its simple melody and message of global unity.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1005904 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: It's a Small World (After All) Context triple: [Sherman Brothers, notableWork, It's a Small World (After All)]
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A.
A Whole New World
"A Whole New World" is the romantic duet from Disney's 1992 animated film Aladdin, celebrated as one of the studio's most iconic and enduring songs.
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B.
My Favorite Things
"My Favorite Things" is a popular show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," later widely known as a jazz standard and holiday favorite.
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C.
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic ballad from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enduring songs in American popular music.
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D.
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a classic 1967 jazz and pop ballad, best known for Louis Armstrong’s warm, gravelly vocals and its optimistic reflection on the beauty of everyday life.
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E.
Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded and performed since its debut in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.
- 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: It's a Small World (After All) Target entity description: "It's a Small World (After All)" is a famous, upbeat theme song written for the Disney attraction "It's a Small World," celebrated for its simple melody and message of global unity.
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A.
A Whole New World
"A Whole New World" is the romantic duet from Disney's 1992 animated film Aladdin, celebrated as one of the studio's most iconic and enduring songs.
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B.
My Favorite Things
"My Favorite Things" is a popular show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," later widely known as a jazz standard and holiday favorite.
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C.
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic ballad from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enduring songs in American popular music.
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D.
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a classic 1967 jazz and pop ballad, best known for Louis Armstrong’s warm, gravelly vocals and its optimistic reflection on the beauty of everyday life.
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E.
Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a popular jazz and pop standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, widely recorded and performed since its debut in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Disney song
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song ⓘ theme song ⓘ |
| associatedAttraction |
It's a Small World (Disneyland Paris)
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linked to:
It's a Small World (Disney attraction)
It's a Small World (Disneyland) ⓘ
linked to:
It's a Small World (Disney attraction)
It's a Small World (Hong Kong Disneyland) ⓘ
linked to:
It's a Small World (Disney attraction)
It's a Small World (Magic Kingdom) ⓘ
linked to:
It's a Small World (Disney attraction)
It's a Small World (Tokyo Disneyland) ⓘ
linked to:
It's a Small World (Disney attraction)
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| associatedWith |
Disney theme parks
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Walt Disney ⓘ |
| composer |
Richard M. Sherman
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Robert B. Sherman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Sherman Brothers ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
often cited as an example of an "earworm" song
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widely recognized as a symbol of Disney theme parks ⓘ |
| describedAs | one of the most performed and translated songs in the world ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceAt |
1964 New York World's Fair
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linked to:
New York World's Fair
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| firstUsedFor | Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair ⓘ |
| genre |
children's music
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novelty song ⓘ theme park music ⓘ |
| hasArrangement | multi-language versions for different countries in the ride ⓘ |
| hasChorusLine |
"It's a small world after all"
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linked to:
It's a Small World (After All)
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| intendedAudience |
children
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families ⓘ |
| intendedMood | upbeat ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
global unity
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international friendship ⓘ peace ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Richard M. Sherman
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Robert B. Sherman ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
continuous loop playback in attraction
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simple repetitive melody ⓘ |
| partOf | Disney Parks music canon ⓘ |
| performer | Disney attraction animatronic chorus ⓘ |
| publisher |
Walt Disney Music Company
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linked to:
Disney Music Group
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| recordLabel | Disney ⓘ |
| themeOf | It's a Small World (Disney attraction) ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Disneyland Paris
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Disneyland Park ⓘ Hong Kong Disneyland ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong Disneyland Resort
Tokyo Disney Resort ⓘ Walt Disney World Resort ⓘ |
| writtenFor |
It's a Small World (Disney attraction)
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linked to:
Disney’s It’s a Small World theme
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| yearOfIntroduction | 1964 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: It's a Small World (After All) Description of subject: "It's a Small World (After All)" is a famous, upbeat theme song written for the Disney attraction "It's a Small World," celebrated for its simple melody and message of global unity.
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