Sammy Going South
E1045500
Sammy Going South is an adventure novel by W. H. Canaway that follows a young boy’s perilous journey across Africa after being orphaned.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sammy Going South canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13530053 — 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: Sammy Going South Context triple: [W. H. Canaway, notableWork, Sammy Going South]
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A.
Goin' South
Goin' South is a 1978 Western comedy film directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, known for its offbeat humor and Nicholson’s portrayal of a bumbling outlaw.
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B.
Way Down South
Way Down South is a 1939 musical film co-written by Clarence Muse that portrays African American life in the antebellum South and is noted for challenging some racial stereotypes of its time.
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C.
Sam’s Song
"Sam’s Song" is a popular mid-20th-century pop standard best known for its recordings by singers such as Gary Crosby and other members of the Crosby family.
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D.
Back Down South
"Back Down South" is a song by American rock band Kings of Leon, known for its Southern rock influences and rootsy, nostalgic sound.
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E.
Goin' Down Slow
"Goin' Down Slow" is a blues standard that has been widely covered by various artists, including on Charles Brown's *His California Album*.
- 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: Sammy Going South Target entity description: Sammy Going South is an adventure novel by W. H. Canaway that follows a young boy’s perilous journey across Africa after being orphaned.
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A.
Goin' South
Goin' South is a 1978 Western comedy film directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, known for its offbeat humor and Nicholson’s portrayal of a bumbling outlaw.
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B.
Way Down South
Way Down South is a 1939 musical film co-written by Clarence Muse that portrays African American life in the antebellum South and is noted for challenging some racial stereotypes of its time.
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C.
Sam’s Song
"Sam’s Song" is a popular mid-20th-century pop standard best known for its recordings by singers such as Gary Crosby and other members of the Crosby family.
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D.
Back Down South
"Back Down South" is a song by American rock band Kings of Leon, known for its Southern rock influences and rootsy, nostalgic sound.
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E.
Goin' Down Slow
"Goin' Down Slow" is a blues standard that has been widely covered by various artists, including on Charles Brown's *His California Album*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adventure novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | W. H. Canaway ⓘ |
| conflictType |
man versus nature
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man versus society ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | child protagonist ⓘ |
| genre | adventure fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | real-world Africa ⓘ |
| hasJourneyMotif | overland travel across a continent ⓘ |
| hasOrphanProtagonist | true ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Sammy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Sammy ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young boy undertakes a perilous journey across Africa after being orphaned ⓘ |
| protagonist | a young boy ⓘ |
| setting | Africa ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general readership ⓘ |
| theme |
coming of age
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journey ⓘ orphanhood ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| workType | children's adventure novel ⓘ |
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: Sammy Going South Description of subject: Sammy Going South is an adventure novel by W. H. Canaway that follows a young boy’s perilous journey across Africa after being orphaned.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.