This Is the New Year
E252691
"This Is the New Year" is a pop song by A Great Big World that gained popularity for its uplifting, anthemic celebration of fresh starts and optimism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Is the New Year canonical | 10 |
| This Is the New Year (EP) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2289354 — 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: This Is the New Year Context triple: [Say Something, followsSingle, This Is the New Year]
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A.
New Year
New Year is the celebration marking the beginning of a new calendar year, commonly observed worldwide with festivities, traditions, and public holidays.
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B.
Only One Year
"Only One Year" is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her experiences and disillusionment with life in the Soviet Union.
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C.
Something New
"Something New" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the eccentric residents and guests of Blandings Castle in a lighthearted tale of romantic entanglements and stolen treasure.
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D.
Something New
"Something New" is a 2006 romantic comedy film that explores interracial romance and societal expectations, starring Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker.
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E.
Make It New
"Make It New" is Ezra Pound’s famous modernist slogan advocating radical innovation and a break from literary tradition in art and poetry.
- 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: This Is the New Year Target entity description: "This Is the New Year" is a pop song by A Great Big World that gained popularity for its uplifting, anthemic celebration of fresh starts and optimism.
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A.
New Year
New Year is the celebration marking the beginning of a new calendar year, commonly observed worldwide with festivities, traditions, and public holidays.
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B.
Only One Year
"Only One Year" is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her experiences and disillusionment with life in the Soviet Union.
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C.
Something New
"Something New" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the eccentric residents and guests of Blandings Castle in a lighthearted tale of romantic entanglements and stolen treasure.
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D.
Something New
"Something New" is a 2006 romantic comedy film that explores interracial romance and societal expectations, starring Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker.
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E.
Make It New
"Make It New" is Ezra Pound’s famous modernist slogan advocating radical innovation and a break from literary tradition in art and poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | A Great Big World ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | A Great Big World ⓘ |
| genre | pop ⓘ |
| hasMood |
celebratory
ⓘ
hopeful ⓘ inspirational ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
anthemic
ⓘ
uplifting ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
celebration of new beginnings
ⓘ
fresh starts ⓘ optimism ⓘ |
| hasTitle | This Is the New Year ⓘ |
| hasType | pop song ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | digital audio ⓘ |
| musicalEnsemble | A Great Big World ⓘ |
| musicalGenre | pop ⓘ |
| notableFor | uplifting, anthemic celebration of fresh starts and optimism ⓘ |
| partOf | A Great Big World discography ⓘ |
| performer | A Great Big World ⓘ |
| topic |
new year
ⓘ
personal renewal ⓘ positivity ⓘ |
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: This Is the New Year Description of subject: "This Is the New Year" is a pop song by A Great Big World that gained popularity for its uplifting, anthemic celebration of fresh starts and optimism.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: This Is the New Year