Alexander's Ragtime Band
E187845
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a hugely popular 1911 ragtime song that helped launch Irving Berlin's career and became one of the early standards of American popular music.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander's Ragtime Band canonical | 7 |
| Alexander’s Ragtime Band | 2 |
| "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1938) | 1 |
| Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657607 — 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: Alexander's Ragtime Band Context triple: [Irving Berlin, notableWork, Alexander's Ragtime Band]
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A.
I Got Rhythm
"I Got Rhythm" is a popular jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, renowned for its catchy melody and influential chord progression widely used in jazz improvisation.
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B.
Happy Days Are Here Again
"Happy Days Are Here Again" is a popular 1929 song that became widely known as the optimistic campaign anthem associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 presidential victory.
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C.
Girl Crazy
Girl Crazy is a 1943 American musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, based on the George and Ira Gershwin stage musical of the same name.
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D.
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a swing-era song, originally made famous by The Andrews Sisters and later revived by Bette Midler, about a virtuoso army bugler whose jazzy playing boosts soldiers' morale.
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E.
Anything Goes
"Anything Goes" is a classic 1934 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, celebrated for its witty lyrics, memorable songs, and farcical romantic plot set aboard an ocean liner.
- 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: Alexander's Ragtime Band Target entity description: "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a hugely popular 1911 ragtime song that helped launch Irving Berlin's career and became one of the early standards of American popular music.
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A.
I Got Rhythm
"I Got Rhythm" is a popular jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, renowned for its catchy melody and influential chord progression widely used in jazz improvisation.
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B.
Happy Days Are Here Again
"Happy Days Are Here Again" is a popular 1929 song that became widely known as the optimistic campaign anthem associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 presidential victory.
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C.
Girl Crazy
Girl Crazy is a 1943 American musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, based on the George and Ira Gershwin stage musical of the same name.
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D.
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a swing-era song, originally made famous by The Andrews Sisters and later revived by Bette Midler, about a virtuoso army bugler whose jazzy playing boosts soldiers' morale.
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E.
Anything Goes
"Anything Goes" is a classic 1934 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, celebrated for its witty lyrics, memorable songs, and farcical romantic plot set aboard an ocean liner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
popular song
ⓘ
ragtime song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement |
Tin Pan Alley era
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surface form:
Tin Pan Alley
|
| composer | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describedAs |
early standard of American popular music
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hugely popular 1911 ragtime song ⓘ |
| firstPerformedInDecade | 1910s ⓘ |
| genre |
Tin Pan Alley song
ⓘ
ragtime ⓘ |
| hasMedium | voice and piano ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | song form ⓘ |
| hasNotableImpact |
established Irving Berlin as leading songwriter
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popularized ragtime style in mainstream music ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
dance and entertainment
ⓘ
ragtime music ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
popular music performance
ⓘ
ragtime band ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Alexander ⓘ |
| helpedLaunchCareerOf | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| influenced | development of American popular song ⓘ |
| isStandardIn | Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| partOf | American popular music standard repertoire ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1911 ⓘ |
| publisher | Ted Snyder Company ⓘ |
| yearOfSongRelease | 1911 ⓘ |
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: Alexander's Ragtime Band Description of subject: "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a hugely popular 1911 ragtime song that helped launch Irving Berlin's career and became one of the early standards of American popular music.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
this entity surface form:
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938 film)
this entity surface form:
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1938)
this entity surface form:
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
subject surface form:
John Joseph Haley Jr.