Take the "A" Train
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"Take the 'A' Train" is a classic jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn that became the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and one of the most famous pieces in big band jazz.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Take the "A" Train canonical | 4 |
| Take the A Train | 2 |
| Take the 'A' Train | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070226 — 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: Take the "A" Train Context triple: [Duke Ellington, notableWork, Take the "A" Train]
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A.
Jammin' in New York
Jammin' in New York is a 1992 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, celebrated for its sharp social commentary and incisive critique of American culture and politics.
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B.
Last Train to Paris
Last Train to Paris is a 2010 concept album by Diddy – Dirty Money that blends hip hop, R&B, and electronic dance music into a narrative about love and heartbreak.
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C.
Manhattan (song)
"Manhattan" is a popular 1925 show tune with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, celebrated for its witty, romantic depiction of New York City.
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D.
Harlem Nights
Harlem Nights is a 1989 crime-comedy film set in 1930s Harlem, written, directed by, and starring Eddie Murphy alongside Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx.
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E.
Uptown
Uptown refers to the northbound direction of travel on New York City’s numbered subway lines, including the 6 train, generally heading toward the northern parts of Manhattan and the Bronx.
- 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: Take the "A" Train Target entity description: "Take the 'A' Train" is a classic jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn that became the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and one of the most famous pieces in big band jazz.
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A.
Jammin' in New York
Jammin' in New York is a 1992 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, celebrated for its sharp social commentary and incisive critique of American culture and politics.
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B.
Last Train to Paris
Last Train to Paris is a 2010 concept album by Diddy – Dirty Money that blends hip hop, R&B, and electronic dance music into a narrative about love and heartbreak.
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C.
Manhattan (song)
"Manhattan" is a popular 1925 show tune with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, celebrated for its witty, romantic depiction of New York City.
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D.
Harlem Nights
Harlem Nights is a 1989 crime-comedy film set in 1930s Harlem, written, directed by, and starring Eddie Murphy alongside Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx.
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E.
Uptown
Uptown refers to the northbound direction of travel on New York City’s numbered subway lines, including the 6 train, generally heading toward the northern parts of Manhattan and the Bronx.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Take the "A" Train Description of subject: "Take the 'A' Train" is a classic jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn that became the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and one of the most famous pieces in big band jazz.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Duke Ellington
this entity surface form:
Take the 'A' Train
this entity surface form:
Take the A Train
this entity surface form:
Take the A Train