Pretty Polly

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"Pretty Polly" is a traditional Appalachian murder ballad, widely recorded in American folk and bluegrass music.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Pretty Polly canonical	4
Polly Come Home	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20875629 — 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: Pretty Polly
Context triple: [A Maid of Constant Sorrow, hasTrack, Pretty Polly]

A. Polly the Pistol
Polly the Pistol is a seductive barmaid character in Billy Wilder’s 1964 romantic comedy film "Kiss Me, Stupid."
B. Polla
Polla is an ancient Roman cognomen most notably borne by Vespasia Polla, the mother of Emperor Vespasian.
C. Roly Poly
"Roly Poly" is a popular retro-disco-inspired K-pop song by the South Korean girl group T-ara, known for its catchy melody and nostalgic dance concept.
D. Polly
Polly is a fictional character known as the daughter of Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin."
E. Polly
Polly is an LLVM project component that performs advanced loop optimizations and automatic parallelization using polyhedral compilation techniques.
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: Pretty Polly
Target entity description: "Pretty Polly" is a traditional Appalachian murder ballad, widely recorded in American folk and bluegrass music.

A. Polly the Pistol
Polly the Pistol is a seductive barmaid character in Billy Wilder’s 1964 romantic comedy film "Kiss Me, Stupid."
B. Polla
Polla is an ancient Roman cognomen most notably borne by Vespasia Polla, the mother of Emperor Vespasian.
C. Roly Poly
"Roly Poly" is a popular retro-disco-inspired K-pop song by the South Korean girl group T-ara, known for its catchy melody and nostalgic dance concept.
D. Polly
Polly is a fictional character known as the daughter of Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin."
E. Polly
Polly is a fictional companion of the Doctor in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
F. None of above. chosen