The Merry Month of May
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"The Merry Month of May" is a traditional British military march tune widely associated with cavalry regiments and ceremonial occasions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Merry Month of May canonical | 2 |
| The Merry Month of May (traditional tune) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4587279 — 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: The Merry Month of May Context triple: [15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, regimentalMarch, The Merry Month of May]
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A.
The Lusty Month of May
"The Lusty Month of May" is a playful, celebratory song from the Broadway musical Camelot that revels in the romantic mischief and springtime freedom of Queen Guenevere and her court.
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B.
Oh, Bright Dawn of May
"Oh, Bright Dawn of May" is the English title of the Montenegrin national anthem, a patriotic song celebrating the country's freedom and identity.
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C.
Dorothy May Day
Dorothy May Day was an American journalist, social activist, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement known for her advocacy for the poor and for social justice.
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D.
Dorothy May Day
Dorothy May Day is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly documented in widely available sources.
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E.
The Darling Buds of May
The Darling Buds of May is a British comedy-drama television series set in rural 1950s Kent, following the warm-hearted, chaotic Larkin family and known for helping launch Catherine Zeta-Jones’s career.
- 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: The Merry Month of May Target entity description: "The Merry Month of May" is a traditional British military march tune widely associated with cavalry regiments and ceremonial occasions.
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A.
The Lusty Month of May
"The Lusty Month of May" is a playful, celebratory song from the Broadway musical Camelot that revels in the romantic mischief and springtime freedom of Queen Guenevere and her court.
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B.
Oh, Bright Dawn of May
"Oh, Bright Dawn of May" is the English title of the Montenegrin national anthem, a patriotic song celebrating the country's freedom and identity.
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C.
Dorothy May Day
Dorothy May Day was an American journalist, social activist, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement known for her advocacy for the poor and for social justice.
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D.
Dorothy May Day
Dorothy May Day is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly documented in widely available sources.
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E.
The Darling Buds of May
The Darling Buds of May is a British comedy-drama television series set in rural 1950s Kent, following the warm-hearted, chaotic Larkin family and known for helping launch Catherine Zeta-Jones’s career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military march
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musical composition ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cavalry regiments
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ceremonial occasions ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalContext | British military tradition ⓘ |
| genre |
march
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military music ⓘ |
| hasMeter | duple meter ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Merry Month of May ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasUnknownComposer | true ⓘ |
| isInstrumental | true ⓘ |
| isTraditional | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicalForm | march ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
formal inspections
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mounted parades ⓘ state ceremonies ⓘ |
| periodOfOrigin | 19th century ⓘ |
| tempo | march tempo ⓘ |
| tradition | British Army ⓘ |
| typicalInstrumentation |
brass band
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military band ⓘ mounted band ⓘ |
| usedBy |
British Army cavalry units
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linked to:
British Army Cavalry
Commonwealth military bands ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ceremonial marches
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military parades ⓘ processions ⓘ |
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: The Merry Month of May Description of subject: "The Merry Month of May" is a traditional British military march tune widely associated with cavalry regiments and ceremonial occasions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Patriot Game (song performance)
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melodicSourceOfUnderlyingWork
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The Merry Month of May (traditional tune)
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linked to: The Merry Month of May