I’ve Got to Use My Imagination
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"I’ve Got to Use My Imagination" is a soul song co-written by Gerry Goffin that became best known through Gladys Knight & the Pips’ hit 1973 recording.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I’ve Got to Use My Imagination canonical | 3 |
| I've Got to Use My Imagination | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2876615 — 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: I’ve Got to Use My Imagination Context triple: [Gerry Goffin, notableWork, I’ve Got to Use My Imagination]
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A.
Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" is a 1971 soul ballad by The Temptations, renowned for its lush orchestration, bittersweet lyrics about unrequited love, and status as one of the group's most enduring hits.
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B.
There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
"There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" is an optimistic theme song written for Disney's Carousel of Progress attraction, celebrating faith in technological progress and the future.
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C.
Journey Into Your Imagination
Journey Into Your Imagination was a reimagined version of Epcot’s original Imagination pavilion dark ride that featured a more technology-focused theme and removed the popular character Figment, leading to widespread guest criticism.
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D.
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
"It’s All Coming Back to Me Now" is a dramatic power ballad, written by Jim Steinman and popularized by Celine Dion, known for its soaring vocals and emotionally intense, cinematic style.
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E.
Maybe I’m Amazed
"Maybe I’m Amazed" is a widely acclaimed rock ballad by Paul McCartney, celebrated for its emotional lyrics, powerful vocals, and prominent piano and guitar arrangements.
- 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: I’ve Got to Use My Imagination Target entity description: "I’ve Got to Use My Imagination" is a soul song co-written by Gerry Goffin that became best known through Gladys Knight & the Pips’ hit 1973 recording.
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A.
Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" is a 1971 soul ballad by The Temptations, renowned for its lush orchestration, bittersweet lyrics about unrequited love, and status as one of the group's most enduring hits.
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B.
There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
"There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" is an optimistic theme song written for Disney's Carousel of Progress attraction, celebrating faith in technological progress and the future.
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C.
Journey Into Your Imagination
Journey Into Your Imagination was a reimagined version of Epcot’s original Imagination pavilion dark ride that featured a more technology-focused theme and removed the popular character Figment, leading to widespread guest criticism.
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D.
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
"It’s All Coming Back to Me Now" is a dramatic power ballad, written by Jim Steinman and popularized by Celine Dion, known for its soaring vocals and emotionally intense, cinematic style.
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E.
Maybe I’m Amazed
"Maybe I’m Amazed" is a widely acclaimed rock ballad by Paul McCartney, celebrated for its emotional lyrics, powerful vocals, and prominent piano and guitar arrangements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ song recording ⓘ |
| album | Imagination ⓘ |
| backingBand | The Pips ⓘ |
| backingVocals | The Pips ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 4 ⓘ |
| chartPositionUSRB | 1 ⓘ |
| composer |
Barry Goldberg
ⓘ
Gerry Goffin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfRelease |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording | I’ve Got to Use My Imagination (Gladys Knight & the Pips recording) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocal | Gladys Knight ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Barry Goldberg
ⓘ
Gerry Goffin ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| performer |
Gladys Knight & the Pips
ⓘ
Joe Cocker ⓘ Mavis Staples ⓘ The Box Tops ⓘ |
| producer |
Kenny Kerner
ⓘ
Richie Wise ⓘ |
| recordingYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Buddah Records ⓘ |
| vocalist | Gladys Knight ⓘ |
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: I’ve Got to Use My Imagination Description of subject: "I’ve Got to Use My Imagination" is a soul song co-written by Gerry Goffin that became best known through Gladys Knight & the Pips’ hit 1973 recording.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
I’ve Got to Use My Imagination (Gladys Knight & the Pips hit)
linked to: I’ve Got to Use My Imagination