I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’
E270198
"I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’" is a cheerful, folk-influenced song from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, celebrating contentment and spiritual wealth over material possessions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2479569 — 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: I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ Context triple: [Porgy and Bess, notableSong, I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’]
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A.
I Got a Woman
"I Got a Woman" is a pioneering 1954 rhythm and blues song by Ray Charles that helped lay the foundation for soul music by blending gospel influences with secular lyrics.
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B.
My Mammy
"My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
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C.
I Cain't Say No
"I Cain't Say No" is a humorous and flirtatious song sung by the character Ado Annie in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!.
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D.
All or Nothin' at All
"All or Nothin' at All" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 1992 album *Human Touch*.
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E.
There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
"There Is Nothin' Like a Dame" is a lively show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, sung by a group of sailors celebrating their longing for female companionship.
- 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: I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ Target entity description: "I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’" is a cheerful, folk-influenced song from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, celebrating contentment and spiritual wealth over material possessions.
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A.
I Got a Woman
"I Got a Woman" is a pioneering 1954 rhythm and blues song by Ray Charles that helped lay the foundation for soul music by blending gospel influences with secular lyrics.
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B.
My Mammy
"My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
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C.
I Cain't Say No
"I Cain't Say No" is a humorous and flirtatious song sung by the character Ado Annie in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!.
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D.
All or Nothin' at All
"All or Nothin' at All" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 1992 album *Human Touch*.
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E.
There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
"There Is Nothin' Like a Dame" is a lively show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *South Pacific*, sung by a group of sailors celebrating their longing for female companionship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aria
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ song ⓘ |
| accompaniment | orchestra ⓘ |
| associatedWorkCreator |
DuBose Heyward
ⓘ
George Gershwin ⓘ Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| composer | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPerformanceInWork | Porgy and Bess ⓘ |
| form | solo song ⓘ |
| genre |
folk-influenced
ⓘ
opera song ⓘ show tune ⓘ |
| hasInfluence |
American popular music
ⓘ
jazz repertoire ⓘ |
| hasSubject | African American life in the American South ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalPerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| lyricist |
DuBose Heyward
ⓘ
Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| mood | cheerful ⓘ |
| narrativeContext | Porgy expresses happiness despite poverty ⓘ |
| notableLine | I got plenty o’ nuttin’ and nuttin’s plenty for me ⓘ |
| operaAct | appears in Porgy and Bess (middle portion of opera) ⓘ |
| originalMedium | opera ⓘ |
| partOf | Porgy and Bess ⓘ |
| performanceTradition |
often excerpted in concert performances of Porgy and Bess
ⓘ
recorded by numerous vocalists ⓘ |
| setting | Catfish Row ⓘ |
| style | folk-influenced ⓘ |
| sungByCharacter | Porgy ⓘ |
| thematicFocus |
contentment
ⓘ
material possessions ⓘ poverty ⓘ spiritual wealth ⓘ |
| valueExpressed |
joy in simple life
ⓘ
satisfaction without wealth ⓘ |
| vocalType | baritone song ⓘ |
| workBasedOn | novel Porgy by DuBose Heyward ⓘ |
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: I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ Description of subject: "I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’" is a cheerful, folk-influenced song from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, celebrating contentment and spiritual wealth over material possessions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.