If You Knew Susie
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"If You Knew Susie" is a popular 1925 American song closely associated with entertainer Eddie Cantor and emblematic of early 20th-century vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley music.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| If You Knew Susie canonical | 5 |
| "If You Knew Susie" | 1 |
| "If you knew Susie like I know Susie" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5056807 — 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: If You Knew Susie Context triple: [Eddie Cantor, notableWork, If You Knew Susie]
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A.
They Keep Killing Suzie
"They Keep Killing Suzie" is a darkly comedic and emotionally intense episode of the British sci-fi series Torchwood that explores resurrection technology and its psychological consequences.
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B.
A Whistling Woman
A Whistling Woman is a 2002 novel by A. S. Byatt that concludes her Frederica Quartet, exploring intellectual life, politics, and personal freedom in 1960s England.
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C.
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder is a 1965 Western film starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, following four brothers who reunite in their Texas hometown to avenge their father's death and restore their family's honor.
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D.
The Daughter
The Daughter is a 2015 Australian drama film, adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play "The Wild Duck," that explores buried family secrets and emotional fallout in a small town.
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E.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy-drama film about a charming jewel thief who infiltrates high society, noted for its witty dialogue and sophisticated 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: If You Knew Susie Target entity description: "If You Knew Susie" is a popular 1925 American song closely associated with entertainer Eddie Cantor and emblematic of early 20th-century vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley music.
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A.
They Keep Killing Suzie
"They Keep Killing Suzie" is a darkly comedic and emotionally intense episode of the British sci-fi series Torchwood that explores resurrection technology and its psychological consequences.
-
B.
A Whistling Woman
A Whistling Woman is a 2002 novel by A. S. Byatt that concludes her Frederica Quartet, exploring intellectual life, politics, and personal freedom in 1960s England.
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C.
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder is a 1965 Western film starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, following four brothers who reunite in their Texas hometown to avenge their father's death and restore their family's honor.
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D.
The Daughter
The Daughter is a 2015 Australian drama film, adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play "The Wild Duck," that explores buried family secrets and emotional fallout in a small town.
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E.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy-drama film about a charming jewel thief who infiltrates high society, noted for its witty dialogue and sophisticated style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
1920s song
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song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Eddie Cantor ⓘ |
| composer | Buddy DeSylva ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describedAs |
emblematic of Tin Pan Alley music
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emblematic of early 20th-century vaudeville ⓘ popular 1925 American song ⓘ |
| firstPerformer | Eddie Cantor ⓘ |
| genre |
Tin Pan Alley
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linked to:
Tin Pan Alley era
vaudeville ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling |
"If You Knew Susie"
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linked to:
If You Knew Susie
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| hasCulturalPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
example of 1920s American popular music
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standard of Eddie Cantor’s repertoire ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociation | Broadway-era popular music ⓘ |
| hasNotableEra |
Tin Pan Alley era
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vaudeville era ⓘ |
| hasNotableForm | comic song ⓘ |
| hasRefrain |
"If you knew Susie like I know Susie"
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linked to:
If You Knew Susie
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| hasTheme | romantic admiration ⓘ |
| hasTitle | If You Knew Susie ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Tin Pan Alley songwriting traditions
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linked to:
Tin Pan Alley era
vaudeville performance style ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Buddy DeSylva
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Joseph Meyer ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage performance ⓘ |
| partOf | American popular song repertoire ⓘ |
| performer | Eddie Cantor ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1925 ⓘ |
| usedIn | vaudeville shows ⓘ |
| yearOfSong | 1925 ⓘ |
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: If You Knew Susie Description of subject: "If You Knew Susie" is a popular 1925 American song closely associated with entertainer Eddie Cantor and emblematic of early 20th-century vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley music.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: If You Knew Susie
linked to: If You Knew Susie