Ragtime
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Ragtime is a musical genre and piano style that emerged in the late 19th century United States, characterized by its syncopated or "ragged" rhythms and lively melodies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ragtime canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17688659 — 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: Ragtime Context triple: [Tougher Than Leather, hasPart, Ragtime]
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A.
Ragtime
Ragtime is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that intertwines the stories of three families in early 20th-century America to explore themes of race, class, and social change.
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B.
Requiem for Harlem
Requiem for Harlem is a posthumously published novel by Henry Roth that continues his semi-autobiographical "Mercy of a Rude Stream" sequence, exploring memory, identity, and Jewish immigrant life in early 20th-century New York.
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C.
Swing Time
Swing Time is a 2016 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores friendship, race, class, and ambition through the intertwined lives of two mixed-race girls who dream of becoming dancers.
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D.
Swing Time
Swing Time is a classic 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renowned for its innovative dance sequences and Jerome Kern–Dorothy Fields score.
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E.
Jazz (novel)
"Jazz" is a 1992 novel by Toni Morrison that explores love, violence, and memory in 1920s Harlem through a polyphonic, jazz-like narrative style.
- 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: Ragtime Target entity description: Ragtime is a musical genre and piano style that emerged in the late 19th century United States, characterized by its syncopated or "ragged" rhythms and lively melodies.
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A.
Ragtime
Ragtime is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that intertwines the stories of three families in early 20th-century America to explore themes of race, class, and social change.
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B.
Requiem for Harlem
Requiem for Harlem is a posthumously published novel by Henry Roth that continues his semi-autobiographical "Mercy of a Rude Stream" sequence, exploring memory, identity, and Jewish immigrant life in early 20th-century New York.
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C.
Swing Time
Swing Time is a 2016 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores friendship, race, class, and ambition through the intertwined lives of two mixed-race girls who dream of becoming dancers.
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D.
Swing Time
Swing Time is a classic 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renowned for its innovative dance sequences and Jerome Kern–Dorothy Fields score.
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E.
Jazz (novel)
"Jazz" is a 1992 novel by Toni Morrison that explores love, violence, and memory in 1920s Harlem through a polyphonic, jazz-like narrative style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.