Mack the Knife
E500811
"Mack the Knife" is a popular song from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" that became a jazz and pop standard through numerous iconic recordings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mack the Knife canonical | 17 |
| “Mack the Knife” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5184068 — 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: Mack the Knife Context triple: [Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, notableSongPerformance, Mack the Knife]
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A.
Gee, Officer Krupke
"Gee, Officer Krupke" is a satirical, comedic song from the musical *West Side Story* that humorously critiques social institutions and their handling of juvenile delinquency.
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B.
Cabaret
Cabaret is a coastal commune in Haiti’s Ouest Department, known for its proximity to Port-au-Prince and its role in the region’s local agriculture and trade.
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C.
Gypsy
Gypsy is a celebrated Broadway musical—later adapted into film and television—based on the memoirs of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, renowned for its powerful score and the iconic stage role of her domineering mother, Mama Rose.
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D.
Can-Can
Can-Can is a 1953 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, best known for its lively Parisian setting and memorable score featuring songs like "I Love Paris."
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E.
Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy Sunday is a haunting jazz ballad, often called the "Hungarian Suicide Song," that gained enduring fame through Billie Holiday’s emotionally powerful 1941 recording.
- 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: Mack the Knife Target entity description: "Mack the Knife" is a popular song from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" that became a jazz and pop standard through numerous iconic recordings.
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A.
Gee, Officer Krupke
"Gee, Officer Krupke" is a satirical, comedic song from the musical *West Side Story* that humorously critiques social institutions and their handling of juvenile delinquency.
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B.
Cabaret
Cabaret is a coastal commune in Haiti’s Ouest Department, known for its proximity to Port-au-Prince and its role in the region’s local agriculture and trade.
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C.
Gypsy
Gypsy is a celebrated Broadway musical—later adapted into film and television—based on the memoirs of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, renowned for its powerful score and the iconic stage role of her domineering mother, Mama Rose.
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D.
Can-Can
Can-Can is a 1953 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, best known for its lively Parisian setting and memorable score featuring songs like "I Love Paris."
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E.
Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy Sunday is a haunting jazz ballad, often called the "Hungarian Suicide Song," that gained enduring fame through Billie Holiday’s emotionally powerful 1941 recording.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pop standard
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacter | Macheath ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | The Beggar's Opera ⓘ |
| composer | Kurt Weill ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceIn | The Threepenny Opera ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
pop ⓘ show tune ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecordingBy |
Billie Holiday
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Bing Crosby ⓘ Bobby Darin ⓘ Brian Setzer ⓘ Count Basie ⓘ Dave Brubeck ⓘ Dean Martin ⓘ Duke Ellington ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Herb Alpert ⓘ Jimmie Dale Gilmore ⓘ Jimmy Somerville ⓘ Judy Collins ⓘ Lena Horne ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ Lyle Lovett ⓘ Marianne Faithfull ⓘ Michael Bublé ⓘ Nick Cave ⓘ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ⓘ Nina Simone ⓘ Oscar Peterson ⓘ Peggy Lee ⓘ Ray Conniff ⓘ Robbie Williams ⓘ Sid Vicious ⓘ Sting ⓘ Sun Ra ⓘ The Brian Setzer Orchestra ⓘ
linked to:
Brian Setzer Orchestra
The Doors ⓘ The Psychedelic Furs ⓘ The Young Gods ⓘ Tony Bennett ⓘ Trini Lopez ⓘ Ute Lemper ⓘ West End Orchestra ⓘ Westlife ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bertolt Brecht ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Die Moritat von Mackie Messer ⓘ |
| partOf | The Threepenny Opera ⓘ |
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: Mack the Knife Description of subject: "Mack the Knife" is a popular song from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" that became a jazz and pop standard through numerous iconic recordings.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.