Eyes on the Prize
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"Eyes on the Prize" is a traditional American civil rights anthem that became widely known through its use in the 1960s movement and later popular recordings, including Bruce Springsteen’s folk revival projects.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eyes on the Prize canonical | 3 |
| Eyes on the Prize (narrator) | 1 |
| Keep Your Eyes on the Prize | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921535 — 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: Eyes on the Prize Context triple: [We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, hasPart, Eyes on the Prize]
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A.
Selma
Selma is a historic city in central Alabama best known as a key site of the American civil rights movement, particularly the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
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B.
Selma
Selma is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its raisin production and location within Fresno County.
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C.
American Experience
American Experience is a long-running PBS documentary television series that explores significant events and figures in American history.
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D.
Stax Music Academy
Stax Music Academy is a music education program in Memphis that trains young musicians in the legacy and style of classic soul music.
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E.
When They See Us
When They See Us is a critically acclaimed 2019 Netflix miniseries that dramatizes the wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration of the Central Park Five, highlighting systemic racism and injustice in the U.S. criminal legal system.
- 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: Eyes on the Prize Target entity description: "Eyes on the Prize" is a traditional American civil rights anthem that became widely known through its use in the 1960s movement and later popular recordings, including Bruce Springsteen’s folk revival projects.
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A.
Selma
Selma is a historic city in central Alabama best known as a key site of the American civil rights movement, particularly the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
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B.
Selma
Selma is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its raisin production and location within Fresno County.
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C.
American Experience
American Experience is a long-running PBS documentary television series that explores significant events and figures in American history.
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D.
Stax Music Academy
Stax Music Academy is a music education program in Memphis that trains young musicians in the legacy and style of classic soul music.
-
E.
When They See Us
When They See Us is a critically acclaimed 2019 Netflix miniseries that dramatizes the wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration of the Central Park Five, highlighting systemic racism and injustice in the U.S. criminal legal system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American folk song
ⓘ
civil rights anthem ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedWithFigure | American civil rights activists ⓘ |
| basedOn | traditional American gospel song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSignificance | symbol of the U.S. civil rights struggle ⓘ |
| decadePopularized | 1960s ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
gospel ⓘ protest song ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle |
Hold On
ⓘ
Eyes on the Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
|
| hasRefrain | "Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on" ⓘ |
| includedIn |
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
ⓘ
surface form:
Bruce Springsteen Seeger Sessions Project live performances
|
| influencedBy | African American spirituals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
faith
ⓘ
perseverance ⓘ struggle for freedom ⓘ |
| movementAssociatedWith | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| performancePractice |
often sung by congregations and mass choirs
ⓘ
often sung in call-and-response style ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| usedAs | freedom song ⓘ |
| usedFor |
political mobilization
ⓘ
protest ⓘ religious gatherings ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
civil rights marches
ⓘ
mass meetings ⓘ sit-ins ⓘ |
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: Eyes on the Prize Description of subject: "Eyes on the Prize" is a traditional American civil rights anthem that became widely known through its use in the 1960s movement and later popular recordings, including Bruce Springsteen’s folk revival projects.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eyes on the Prize (narrator)
this entity surface form:
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize