Cole Porter song "Be a Clown"
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"Be a Clown" is a popular 1946 Cole Porter show tune, best known from the film *The Pirate*, that celebrates the carefree, comic life of a clown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cole Porter song "Be a Clown" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3158500 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cole Porter song "Be a Clown" Context triple: ["Make 'Em Laugh" musical number, influencedByClaim, Cole Porter song "Be a Clown"]
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song "Three Coins in the Fountain"
"Three Coins in the Fountain" is a popular 1954 song, introduced in the film of the same name, that romanticizes the tradition of tossing coins into Rome’s Trevi Fountain for luck in love.
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B.
"Make 'Em Laugh" musical number
"Make 'Em Laugh" is a high-energy comic musical number from the film Singin' in the Rain, celebrated for Donald O'Connor's acrobatic slapstick performance and inventive physical comedy.
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song "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is a classic American Christmas song, first recorded in the 1930s, that has become a holiday standard covered by countless artists.
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song "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"
"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is a popular romantic song from 1939 that has become a jazz and traditional pop standard, celebrated for its nostalgic evocation of London’s West End.
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E.
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" is a landmark 1966 Esquire magazine profile by Gay Talese, celebrated as a defining example of New Journalism for its cinematic detail and narrative style.
- 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: Cole Porter song "Be a Clown" Target entity description: "Be a Clown" is a popular 1946 Cole Porter show tune, best known from the film *The Pirate*, that celebrates the carefree, comic life of a clown.
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A.
song "Three Coins in the Fountain"
"Three Coins in the Fountain" is a popular 1954 song, introduced in the film of the same name, that romanticizes the tradition of tossing coins into Rome’s Trevi Fountain for luck in love.
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B.
"Make 'Em Laugh" musical number
"Make 'Em Laugh" is a high-energy comic musical number from the film Singin' in the Rain, celebrated for Donald O'Connor's acrobatic slapstick performance and inventive physical comedy.
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C.
song "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is a classic American Christmas song, first recorded in the 1930s, that has become a holiday standard covered by countless artists.
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D.
song "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"
"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is a popular romantic song from 1939 that has become a jazz and traditional pop standard, celebrated for its nostalgic evocation of London’s West End.
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E.
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" is a landmark 1966 Esquire magazine profile by Gay Talese, celebrated as a defining example of New Journalism for its cinematic detail and narrative style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Cole Porter song "Be a Clown" Description of subject: "Be a Clown" is a popular 1946 Cole Porter show tune, best known from the film *The Pirate*, that celebrates the carefree, comic life of a clown.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.