This Is America
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"This Is America" is a critically acclaimed 2018 song by Childish Gambino that blends hip hop and gospel influences to deliver a powerful commentary on gun violence and systemic racism in the United States.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Is America canonical | 7 |
| This Is America (music video) | 3 |
| “This Is America” | 2 |
| "This Is America" | 1 |
| "This Is America" by Childish Gambino | 1 |
| single "This Is America" | 1 |
| song “This Is America” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T377871 — 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: This Is America Context triple: [Ludwig Göransson, notableSongProduced, This Is America]
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A.
Have One on Me
Have One on Me is an expansive, critically acclaimed 2010 triple album by American singer-songwriter and harpist Joanna Newsom, noted for its intricate compositions and poetic lyrics.
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B.
Letter to You
"Letter to You" is a 2020 studio album by Bruce Springsteen, recorded with the E Street Band and noted for its reflective themes on aging, mortality, and the power of rock music.
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C.
No One
"No One" is a Grammy-winning R&B ballad by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys that became one of her signature hits worldwide.
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D.
Get on Up
Get on Up is a 2014 biographical drama film about the life and career of soul music legend James Brown.
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E.
City on a Hill
City on a Hill is an American crime drama television series set in early-1990s Boston, exploring corruption and justice through the uneasy alliance between a corrupt FBI agent and an idealistic assistant district attorney.
- 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: This Is America Target entity description: "This Is America" is a critically acclaimed 2018 song by Childish Gambino that blends hip hop and gospel influences to deliver a powerful commentary on gun violence and systemic racism in the United States.
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A.
Have One on Me
Have One on Me is an expansive, critically acclaimed 2010 triple album by American singer-songwriter and harpist Joanna Newsom, noted for its intricate compositions and poetic lyrics.
-
B.
Letter to You
"Letter to You" is a 2020 studio album by Bruce Springsteen, recorded with the E Street Band and noted for its reflective themes on aging, mortality, and the power of rock music.
-
C.
No One
"No One" is a Grammy-winning R&B ballad by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys that became one of her signature hits worldwide.
-
D.
Get on Up
Get on Up is a 2014 biographical drama film about the life and career of soul music legend James Brown.
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E.
City on a Hill
City on a Hill is an American crime drama television series set in early-1990s Boston, exploring corruption and justice through the uneasy alliance between a corrupt FBI agent and an idealistic assistant district attorney.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: This Is America Description of subject: "This Is America" is a critically acclaimed 2018 song by Childish Gambino that blends hip hop and gospel influences to deliver a powerful commentary on gun violence and systemic racism in the United States.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
"This Is America"
this entity surface form:
single "This Is America"
this entity surface form:
song “This Is America”
this entity surface form:
“This Is America”
this entity surface form:
“This Is America”
this entity surface form:
This Is America (music video)
this entity surface form:
This Is America (music video)
this entity surface form:
This Is America (music video)
Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance for "This Is America"
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this entity surface form:
"This Is America" by Childish Gambino