Sunshine Superman
E454620
"Sunshine Superman" is a 1966 psychedelic folk-pop song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, widely regarded as one of his signature hits and an early landmark of psychedelic music.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunshine Superman canonical | 6 |
| Donovan – "Sunshine Superman" | 1 |
| precededBy: "Sunshine Superman" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4584380 — 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: Sunshine Superman Context triple: [Donovan, notableWork, Sunshine Superman]
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A.
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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B.
Escape to the Sun
Escape to the Sun is a 1972 drama film about Soviet Jews attempting to flee religious persecution, featuring Josephine Chaplin in a leading role.
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C.
Sunshine
"Sunshine" is a track by Pusha T from his 2015 prelude album *King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude*, known for its dark, politically charged lyricism and atmospheric production.
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D.
Sunshine
"Sunshine" is a 2007 science fiction thriller film directed by Danny Boyle about a crew’s perilous mission to reignite the dying sun, featuring Cillian Murphy in a leading role.
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E.
Another Day of Sun
"Another Day of Sun" is the exuberant, ensemble-led opening musical number from the film La La Land, set during a traffic jam on a Los Angeles freeway.
- 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: Sunshine Superman Target entity description: "Sunshine Superman" is a 1966 psychedelic folk-pop song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, widely regarded as one of his signature hits and an early landmark of psychedelic music.
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A.
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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B.
Escape to the Sun
Escape to the Sun is a 1972 drama film about Soviet Jews attempting to flee religious persecution, featuring Josephine Chaplin in a leading role.
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C.
Sunshine
"Sunshine" is a track by Pusha T from his 2015 prelude album *King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude*, known for its dark, politically charged lyricism and atmospheric production.
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D.
Sunshine
"Sunshine" is a 2007 science fiction thriller film directed by Danny Boyle about a crew’s perilous mission to reignite the dying sun, featuring Cillian Murphy in a leading role.
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E.
Another Day of Sun
"Another Day of Sun" is the exuberant, ensemble-led opening musical number from the film La La Land, set during a traffic jam on a Los Angeles freeway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Donovan ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
1 on Billboard Hot 100 (United States)
ⓘ
1 on RPM Top Singles (Canada) ⓘ 2 on UK Singles Chart (United Kingdom) ⓘ |
| composer | Donovan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decade | 1960s ⓘ |
| describedAs |
early landmark of psychedelic music
ⓘ
psychedelic folk-pop song ⓘ signature song of Donovan ⓘ |
| genre |
folk rock
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ psychedelic folk ⓘ psychedelic pop ⓘ |
| hasBSide | The Trip ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy |
Hüsker Dü
ⓘ
Melanie ⓘ The Butthole Surfers ⓘ
linked to:
Butthole Surfers
|
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ harpsichord ⓘ percussion ⓘ strings ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
psychedelic experience
ⓘ
romantic love ⓘ superhero imagery ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
folk-influenced melody
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prominent bass line ⓘ psychedelic production ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Sunshine Superman ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 3 minutes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first psychedelic hit singles
ⓘ
commercial breakthrough for Donovan in the United States ⓘ |
| performer | Donovan ⓘ |
| producer | Mickie Most ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1965 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Epic Records
ⓘ
Pye Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1966-07-01 ⓘ |
| releaseType | lead single ⓘ |
| tempo | medium ⓘ |
| vocalist | Donovan ⓘ |
| writer | Donovan ⓘ |
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: Sunshine Superman Description of subject: "Sunshine Superman" is a 1966 psychedelic folk-pop song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, widely regarded as one of his signature hits and an early landmark of psychedelic music.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sunshine Superman
linked to: Sunshine Superman