song "Yes We Can" (Barack Obama campaign video)
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"Yes We Can" is a 2008 viral music video and song created by will.i.am that remixes Barack Obama’s campaign speech into a celebrity-filled anthem supporting his presidential run.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barack Obama speech "Yes We Can" | 2 |
| song "Yes We Can" (Barack Obama campaign video) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T487491 — 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: song "Yes We Can" (Barack Obama campaign video) Context triple: [will.i.am, notableWork, song "Yes We Can" (Barack Obama campaign video)]
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A.
song "Hero"
"Hero" is one of Mariah Carey's signature power ballads, celebrated for its inspirational lyrics and soaring vocal performance.
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B.
song "Charlie on the MTA"
"Charlie on the MTA" is a mid-20th-century folk song about a man trapped riding Boston’s subway because he cannot pay the exit fare, and has become a cultural icon associated with the city’s transit system.
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C.
song "We Belong Together"
"We Belong Together" is a 2005 R&B ballad by Mariah Carey that became one of her biggest commercial and critical successes, often credited with revitalizing her career.
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D.
It’s Over (feat. Kanye West)
"It’s Over (feat. Kanye West)" is a collaborative hip-hop/R&B track featuring Kanye West, included on John Legend’s album *Evolver*.
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E.
I Gotta Feeling
"I Gotta Feeling" is a 2009 dance-pop anthem by the Black Eyed Peas that became a global party hit and one of the best-selling digital singles of all time.
- 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: song "Yes We Can" (Barack Obama campaign video) Target entity description: "Yes We Can" is a 2008 viral music video and song created by will.i.am that remixes Barack Obama’s campaign speech into a celebrity-filled anthem supporting his presidential run.
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A.
song "Hero"
"Hero" is one of Mariah Carey's signature power ballads, celebrated for its inspirational lyrics and soaring vocal performance.
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B.
song "Charlie on the MTA"
"Charlie on the MTA" is a mid-20th-century folk song about a man trapped riding Boston’s subway because he cannot pay the exit fare, and has become a cultural icon associated with the city’s transit system.
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C.
song "We Belong Together"
"We Belong Together" is a 2005 R&B ballad by Mariah Carey that became one of her biggest commercial and critical successes, often credited with revitalizing her career.
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D.
It’s Over (feat. Kanye West)
"It’s Over (feat. Kanye West)" is a collaborative hip-hop/R&B track featuring Kanye West, included on John Legend’s album *Evolver*.
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E.
I Gotta Feeling
"I Gotta Feeling" is a 2009 dance-pop anthem by the Black Eyed Peas that became a global party hit and one of the best-selling digital singles of all time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: song "Yes We Can" (Barack Obama campaign video) Description of subject: "Yes We Can" is a 2008 viral music video and song created by will.i.am that remixes Barack Obama’s campaign speech into a celebrity-filled anthem supporting his presidential run.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
song "Yes We Can" (Barack Obama campaign video)
linked to: song "Yes We Can" (Barack Obama campaign video)
linked to: song "Yes We Can" (Barack Obama campaign video)