Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
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"Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" is a popular song from the 1943 film *Cabin in the Sky*, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, that became a jazz and pop standard.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe canonical | 7 |
| "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2804174 — 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: Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe Context triple: [Harold Arlen, notableWork, Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe]
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A.
My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe is a 1998 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach, focusing on an ex-alcoholic in Glasgow struggling with poverty, addiction, and relationships.
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B.
A Guy Named Joe
A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 World War II romantic fantasy film about a deceased pilot who returns as a guardian spirit to mentor a younger aviator while struggling with his lingering love for his former girlfriend.
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C.
Happiness Is
"Happiness Is" was the light-hearted, upbeat musical theme used for the halftime show of Super Bowl VII.
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D.
Happy Days
"Happy Days" is a darkly comic existential play by Samuel Beckett that portrays a woman buried increasingly in the ground as she clings to routine and optimism amid encroaching despair.
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E.
Happy Days
Happy Days is a popular American sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s that nostalgically portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s through the Cunningham family and the iconic character Fonzie.
- 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: Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe Target entity description: "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" is a popular song from the 1943 film *Cabin in the Sky*, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, that became a jazz and pop standard.
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A.
My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe is a 1998 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach, focusing on an ex-alcoholic in Glasgow struggling with poverty, addiction, and relationships.
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B.
A Guy Named Joe
A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 World War II romantic fantasy film about a deceased pilot who returns as a guardian spirit to mentor a younger aviator while struggling with his lingering love for his former girlfriend.
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C.
Happiness Is
"Happiness Is" was the light-hearted, upbeat musical theme used for the halftime show of Super Bowl VII.
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D.
Happy Days
"Happy Days" is a darkly comic existential play by Samuel Beckett that portrays a woman buried increasingly in the ground as she clings to routine and optimism amid encroaching despair.
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E.
Happy Days
Happy Days is a popular American sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s that nostalgically portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s through the Cunningham family and the iconic character Fonzie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
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pop standard ⓘ popular song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
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linked to:
E. Y. Harburg
Harold Arlen ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Cabin in the Sky (stage musical)
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linked to:
Cabin in the Sky
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| composer | Harold Arlen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedAs | standard from the Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| featuredInFilm | Cabin in the Sky ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
film Cabin in the Sky (1943)
ⓘ
linked to:
Cabin in the Sky
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| genre |
jazz
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traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
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linked to:
E. Y. Harburg
|
| lyricsBy |
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
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linked to:
E. Y. Harburg
|
| medium | film song ⓘ |
| musicBy | Harold Arlen ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Ella Fitzgerald
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Ethel Waters ⓘ Judy Garland ⓘ Peggy Lee ⓘ Sarah Vaughan ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cabin in the Sky (soundtrack)
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linked to:
Cabin in the Sky
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| publicationDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
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: Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe Description of subject: "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" is a popular song from the 1943 film *Cabin in the Sky*, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, that became a jazz and pop standard.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe