You Are My Sunshine
E176688
"You Are My Sunshine" is a popular American country song from the late 1930s that has become a widely recognized folk standard and cultural staple.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| You Are My Sunshine canonical | 15 |
| "You Are My Sunshine" | 1 |
| Do You Know You Are My Sunshine | 1 |
| track "You Are My Sunshine" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1539838 — 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: You Are My Sunshine Context triple: [Louisiana, stateSong, You Are My Sunshine]
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A.
Always on My Mind
"Always on My Mind" is a classic country ballad popularized by Willie Nelson, renowned for its poignant lyrics about regret and enduring love.
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B.
This Little Light of Mine
"This Little Light of Mine" is a popular gospel song and spiritual often associated with the civil rights movement and sung to express hope, resilience, and personal faith.
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C.
Isn't She Lovely
"Isn't She Lovely" is a popular 1976 soul and R&B song by Stevie Wonder, celebrated for its joyful tribute to his newborn daughter and its distinctive harmonica and vocal performances.
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D.
Do-Re-Mi
Do-Re-Mi is a popular show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," known for teaching the musical scale through its lyrics.
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E.
All Mine
"All Mine" is a minimalist, sexually charged R&B track by Kanye West (Ye) from his 2018 album *Ye*, known for its sparse production and catchy vocal hook.
- 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: You Are My Sunshine Target entity description: "You Are My Sunshine" is a popular American country song from the late 1930s that has become a widely recognized folk standard and cultural staple.
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A.
Always on My Mind
"Always on My Mind" is a classic country ballad popularized by Willie Nelson, renowned for its poignant lyrics about regret and enduring love.
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B.
This Little Light of Mine
"This Little Light of Mine" is a popular gospel song and spiritual often associated with the civil rights movement and sung to express hope, resilience, and personal faith.
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C.
Isn't She Lovely
"Isn't She Lovely" is a popular 1976 soul and R&B song by Stevie Wonder, celebrated for its joyful tribute to his newborn daughter and its distinctive harmonica and vocal performances.
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D.
Do-Re-Mi
Do-Re-Mi is a popular show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," known for teaching the musical scale through its lyrics.
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E.
All Mine
"All Mine" is a minimalist, sexually charged R&B track by Kanye West (Ye) from his 2018 album *Ye*, known for its sparse production and catchy vocal hook.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country song
ⓘ
folk standard ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenreMovement | country and western ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalStatus |
American folk standard
ⓘ
children’s song standard ⓘ |
| decade | 1930s ⓘ |
| firstRecordingArtist | The Pine Ridge Boys ⓘ |
| firstRecordingLabel | Bluebird Records ⓘ |
| firstRecordingYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| form | verse-chorus form ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
folk ⓘ |
| hasChorus | true ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | widely recognized in American popular culture ⓘ |
| hasLyric |
Please don’t take my sunshine away
ⓘ
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine ⓘ You make me happy when skies are gray ⓘ You’ll never know dear, how much I love you ⓘ |
| hasVerses | true ⓘ |
| isPopularSongOfCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| isPublicDomainInUnitedStates | false ⓘ |
| isStandard | true ⓘ |
| isWidelyCovered | true ⓘ |
| key | major key (commonly A major or C major) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableRecordingArtist |
Aretha Franklin
ⓘ
Bing Crosby ⓘ Charles Mitchell ⓘ Gene Autry ⓘ Ike Turner ⓘ Jimmie Davis ⓘ Johnny Cash ⓘ Morgane Stapleton ⓘ Norman Blake ⓘ Ray Charles ⓘ Willie Nelson ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1939 ⓘ |
| tempo | moderate ⓘ |
| theme |
longing
ⓘ
loss ⓘ love ⓘ |
| timeSignature | 4/4 ⓘ |
| usedAs |
lullaby
ⓘ
sing-along song ⓘ |
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: You Are My Sunshine Description of subject: "You Are My Sunshine" is a popular American country song from the late 1930s that has become a widely recognized folk standard and cultural staple.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: You Are My Sunshine
subject linked to:
album "Another Time, Another Place"
linked to: You Are My Sunshine
subject linked to:
Louisiana (implied region for Cajun background)
subject linked to:
Louisiana (across Sabine River)