"Shoe Shine Boy"
E502270
"Shoe Shine Boy" is a 1936 jazz recording that became one of tenor saxophonist Lester Young’s earliest and most celebrated breakout performances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Shoe Shine Boy" canonical | 1 |
| Shoe Shine Boy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5192993 — 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: "Shoe Shine Boy" Context triple: [Lester Young, notableWork, "Shoe Shine Boy"]
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A.
The Patent Leather Kid
The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent drama film about a cocky prizefighter whose life changes when he goes to war in World War I.
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B.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
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C.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
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D.
The Barefoot Boy
The Barefoot Boy is a well-known pastoral poem by John Greenleaf Whittier that nostalgically celebrates the freedom and innocence of rural childhood.
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E.
Church Girl
"Church Girl" is a genre-blending track from Beyoncé’s 2022 album *Renaissance* that fuses gospel influences with dance and bounce music to explore themes of liberation, spirituality, and sensuality.
- 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: "Shoe Shine Boy" Target entity description: "Shoe Shine Boy" is a 1936 jazz recording that became one of tenor saxophonist Lester Young’s earliest and most celebrated breakout performances.
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A.
The Patent Leather Kid
The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent drama film about a cocky prizefighter whose life changes when he goes to war in World War I.
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B.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
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C.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
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D.
The Barefoot Boy
The Barefoot Boy is a well-known pastoral poem by John Greenleaf Whittier that nostalgically celebrates the freedom and innocence of rural childhood.
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E.
Church Girl
"Church Girl" is a genre-blending track from Beyoncé’s 2022 album *Renaissance* that fuses gospel influences with dance and bounce music to explore themes of liberation, spirituality, and sensuality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz recording
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Count Basie Orchestra ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Kansas City jazz ⓘ |
| composer | Saul Chaplin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decade | 1930s ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasNotableSolo | tenor saxophone solo by Lester Young ⓘ |
| hasPerformerRole | Lester Young – tenor saxophone soloist ⓘ |
| hasRecognition | considered one of Lester Young’s classic early recordings ⓘ |
| influenced | later swing-era tenor saxophonists ⓘ |
| instrumentFeatured | tenor saxophone ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Sammy Cahn ⓘ |
| medium | 78 rpm record ⓘ |
| notableFor | early breakout performance by Lester Young ⓘ |
| partOf |
early discography of Count Basie
ⓘ
early discography of Lester Young ⓘ |
| performer |
Count Basie
ⓘ
Count Basie and His Orchestra ⓘ Lester Young ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1936 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Vocalion Records ⓘ |
| style | swing ⓘ |
| tempo | medium-tempo swing ⓘ |
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: "Shoe Shine Boy" Description of subject: "Shoe Shine Boy" is a 1936 jazz recording that became one of tenor saxophonist Lester Young’s earliest and most celebrated breakout performances.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.