film "Lady Sings the Blues"
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"Lady Sings the Blues" is a 1972 biographical drama film starring Diana Ross that chronicles the turbulent life and career of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues | 1 |
| Lady Sings the Blues | 1 |
| Lady Sings the Blues (film) | 1 |
| film "Lady Sings the Blues" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1585815 — 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: film "Lady Sings the Blues" Context triple: [Billie Holiday, subjectOf, film "Lady Sings the Blues"]
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A.
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that portrays a young Black couple’s love and struggle for justice in Harlem amid systemic racism and wrongful imprisonment.
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B.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 drama film adaptation of August Wilson's play, depicting tensions within a 1920s blues band and featuring one of Chadwick Boseman's most acclaimed final performances.
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C.
film "Precious"
The film "Precious" is a 2009 drama directed by Lee Daniels about an abused, illiterate Harlem teenager seeking a better life, acclaimed for its powerful performances and unflinching portrayal of trauma and resilience.
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D.
Ain't Misbehavin'
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a classic jazz and swing standard, originally from the 1929 musical revue "Hot Chocolates," that became widely popular through performances by artists including Louis Armstrong.
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E.
Blues for Mister Charlie
Blues for Mister Charlie is a 1964 stage play by James Baldwin that confronts racism and injustice in the American South, loosely inspired by the murder of Emmett Till.
- 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: film "Lady Sings the Blues" Target entity description: "Lady Sings the Blues" is a 1972 biographical drama film starring Diana Ross that chronicles the turbulent life and career of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday.
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A.
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that portrays a young Black couple’s love and struggle for justice in Harlem amid systemic racism and wrongful imprisonment.
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B.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 drama film adaptation of August Wilson's play, depicting tensions within a 1920s blues band and featuring one of Chadwick Boseman's most acclaimed final performances.
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C.
film "Precious"
The film "Precious" is a 2009 drama directed by Lee Daniels about an abused, illiterate Harlem teenager seeking a better life, acclaimed for its powerful performances and unflinching portrayal of trauma and resilience.
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D.
Ain't Misbehavin'
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a classic jazz and swing standard, originally from the 1929 musical revue "Hot Chocolates," that became widely popular through performances by artists including Louis Armstrong.
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E.
Blues for Mister Charlie
Blues for Mister Charlie is a 1964 stage play by James Baldwin that confronts racism and injustice in the American South, loosely inspired by the murder of Emmett Till.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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: film "Lady Sings the Blues" Description of subject: "Lady Sings the Blues" is a 1972 biographical drama film starring Diana Ross that chronicles the turbulent life and career of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lady Sings the Blues (film)
this entity surface form:
Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues
this entity surface form:
Lady Sings the Blues