Things Are Looking Up
E920654
"Things Are Looking Up" is a track by American producer and DJ RJD2, known for his sample-rich, genre-blending instrumental hip-hop style.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Things Are Looking Up canonical | 2 |
| Things Are Looking Up (single) | 1 |
| Things Are Looking Up (track) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11344346 — 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: Things Are Looking Up Context triple: [RJD2, notableWork, Things Are Looking Up]
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A.
Things Are Looking Up
"Things Are Looking Up" is a popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film musical *A Damsel in Distress*.
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B.
Ever Upward
Ever Upward is the official English motto of the U.S. state of New York, expressing a spirit of continual progress and aspiration.
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C.
Get Up on It
"Get Up on It" is an R&B album by American singer Keith Sweat, known for its smooth slow jams and new jack swing-influenced production from the mid-1990s.
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D.
What Goes Up
"What Goes Up" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, included in his humorous bar-story collection *Tales from the White Hart*.
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E.
Cheer Up
"Cheer Up" is a bright, upbeat K-pop song by South Korean girl group Twice that became one of their breakout hits and popularized the catchphrase "shy shy shy."
- 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: Things Are Looking Up Target entity description: "Things Are Looking Up" is a track by American producer and DJ RJD2, known for his sample-rich, genre-blending instrumental hip-hop style.
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A.
Things Are Looking Up
"Things Are Looking Up" is a popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film musical *A Damsel in Distress*.
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B.
Ever Upward
Ever Upward is the official English motto of the U.S. state of New York, expressing a spirit of continual progress and aspiration.
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C.
Get Up on It
"Get Up on It" is an R&B album by American singer Keith Sweat, known for its smooth slow jams and new jack swing-influenced production from the mid-1990s.
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D.
What Goes Up
"What Goes Up" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, included in his humorous bar-story collection *Tales from the White Hart*.
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E.
Cheer Up
"Cheer Up" is a bright, upbeat K-pop song by South Korean girl group Twice that became one of their breakout hits and popularized the catchphrase "shy shy shy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| artist | RJD2 ⓘ |
| composer | RJD2 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
electronic music
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ instrumental hip hop ⓘ |
| hasCreatorCitizenship | American ⓘ |
| hasCreatorOccupation |
disc jockey
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
drum programming
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sampler ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ turntables ⓘ |
| hasMusicalArtistStyle |
genre-blending
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sample-based production ⓘ turntablism ⓘ |
| hasMusicalCharacteristic |
beat-driven structure
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instrumental arrangement ⓘ sample-rich production ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| partOf | RJD2 discography ⓘ |
| performer | RJD2 ⓘ |
| producer | RJD2 ⓘ |
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: Things Are Looking Up Description of subject: "Things Are Looking Up" is a track by American producer and DJ RJD2, known for his sample-rich, genre-blending instrumental hip-hop style.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Things Are Looking Up
linked to: Things Are Looking Up