Gloomy Sunday
E178491
Gloomy Sunday is a haunting jazz ballad, often called the "Hungarian Suicide Song," that gained enduring fame through Billie Holiday’s emotionally powerful 1941 recording.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gloomy Sunday canonical | 3 |
| Hungarian Suicide Song | 2 |
| Gloomy Sunday (English lyrics) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1585800 — 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: Gloomy Sunday Context triple: [Billie Holiday, notableWork, Gloomy Sunday]
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A.
Murderer of Blue Skies
"Murderer of Blue Skies" is a song by Chris Cornell, featured on his 2015 solo album *Higher Truth*, showcasing his introspective lyrics and acoustic-driven rock style.
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B.
The Sad Night
The Sad Night refers to the disastrous 1520 retreat of Hernán Cortés and his forces from Tenochtitlan, during which many Spanish conquistadors and their allies were killed by the Aztecs.
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C.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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D.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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E.
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark is a 1967 suspense thriller film about a blind woman terrorized by criminals searching for hidden drugs in her apartment.
- 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: Gloomy Sunday Target entity description: Gloomy Sunday is a haunting jazz ballad, often called the "Hungarian Suicide Song," that gained enduring fame through Billie Holiday’s emotionally powerful 1941 recording.
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A.
Murderer of Blue Skies
"Murderer of Blue Skies" is a song by Chris Cornell, featured on his 2015 solo album *Higher Truth*, showcasing his introspective lyrics and acoustic-driven rock style.
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B.
The Sad Night
The Sad Night refers to the disastrous 1520 retreat of Hernán Cortés and his forces from Tenochtitlan, during which many Spanish conquistadors and their allies were killed by the Aztecs.
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C.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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D.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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E.
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark is a 1967 suspense thriller film about a blind woman terrorized by criminals searching for hidden drugs in her apartment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Gloomy Sunday Description of subject: Gloomy Sunday is a haunting jazz ballad, often called the "Hungarian Suicide Song," that gained enduring fame through Billie Holiday’s emotionally powerful 1941 recording.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hungarian Suicide Song
this entity surface form:
Hungarian Suicide Song
subject surface form:
Eleanora Fagan
this entity surface form:
Gloomy Sunday (English lyrics)