Big band era
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The Big Band era was a period in the 1930s and 1940s when large jazz and swing orchestras dominated popular music and dance culture in the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swing Era | 12 |
| Swing era | 7 |
| Big band era canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4609247 — 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: Big band era Context triple: [Harry Crosby, participantIn, Big band era]
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A.
Tin Pan Alley era
The Tin Pan Alley era was a period in early 20th-century American music history characterized by the dominance of professional songwriters and publishers producing popular songs for Broadway, vaudeville, and mass-market sheet music.
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B.
A Salute to the Big Band Era
"A Salute to the Big Band Era" was a Super Bowl XIV halftime show themed around classic big band music and swing-era entertainment.
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C.
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 American crime drama film directed by Raoul Walsh that chronicles the rise and fall of Prohibition-era gangsters.
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D.
Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic prosperity, cultural dynamism, and social change in the 1920s, marked by jazz music, flapper culture, and rapid industrial growth, particularly in the United States and Western Europe.
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E.
Golden Age of Radio
The Golden Age of Radio was a period from the 1920s to the 1950s when radio was the dominant mass entertainment and information medium, featuring popular dramas, comedies, news, and variety shows.
- 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: Big band era Target entity description: The Big Band era was a period in the 1930s and 1940s when large jazz and swing orchestras dominated popular music and dance culture in the United States.
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A.
Tin Pan Alley era
The Tin Pan Alley era was a period in early 20th-century American music history characterized by the dominance of professional songwriters and publishers producing popular songs for Broadway, vaudeville, and mass-market sheet music.
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B.
A Salute to the Big Band Era
"A Salute to the Big Band Era" was a Super Bowl XIV halftime show themed around classic big band music and swing-era entertainment.
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C.
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 American crime drama film directed by Raoul Walsh that chronicles the rise and fall of Prohibition-era gangsters.
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D.
Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic prosperity, cultural dynamism, and social change in the 1920s, marked by jazz music, flapper culture, and rapid industrial growth, particularly in the United States and Western Europe.
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E.
Golden Age of Radio
The Golden Age of Radio was a period from the 1920s to the 1950s when radio was the dominant mass entertainment and information medium, featuring popular dramas, comedies, news, and variety shows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical period
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jazz era ⓘ musical era ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | swing era ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
World War II home-front culture
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ballroom dancing ⓘ dance halls ⓘ radio broadcasts ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
arranged music
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brass and reed sections ⓘ large jazz orchestras ⓘ rhythmic drive for dancing ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalRole |
central to social dancing culture
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dominant form of American popular music ⓘ |
| declineFactors |
musicians union recording ban
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postwar economic changes ⓘ rise of bebop ⓘ |
| economicContext |
Great Depression
NERFINISHED
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World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1940s ⓘ |
| featuredVocalist |
Billie Holiday
NERFINISHED
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Bing Crosby NERFINISHED ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
big band jazz
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dance band music ⓘ swing ⓘ |
| hasSection |
brass section
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reed section ⓘ rhythm section ⓘ |
| influenced |
bebop
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modern jazz ⓘ popular dance music ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Chicago jazz
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New Orleans jazz ⓘ ragtime ⓘ |
| majorFigure |
Artie Shaw
NERFINISHED
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Benny Goodman NERFINISHED ⓘ Cab Calloway NERFINISHED ⓘ Chick Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Count Basie NERFINISHED ⓘ Duke Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenn Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmie Lunceford NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Dorsey NERFINISHED ⓘ Woody Herman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaFormat |
78 rpm records
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live radio remotes ⓘ |
| peakPopularity |
early 1940s
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late 1930s ⓘ |
| startTime | 1930 ⓘ |
| typicalEnsembleSize | 10 to 25 musicians ⓘ |
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: Big band era Description of subject: The Big Band era was a period in the 1930s and 1940s when large jazz and swing orchestras dominated popular music and dance culture in the United States.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Harry Crosby
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Swing era
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