Sweet Potato Piper
E513346
"Sweet Potato Piper" is a musical number performed by Bing Crosby in the 1940 comedy film *Road to Singapore*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sweet Potato Piper canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5353391 — 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: Sweet Potato Piper Context triple: [Road to Singapore, hasSong, Sweet Potato Piper]
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A.
Roselle
Roselle is a suburban village in northeastern Illinois, United States, located in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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B.
Matucana
Matucana is a small Andean town in Peru that serves as the capital of Huarochirí Province in the Lima Region.
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C.
Macua
Macua is an alternative name for Makhuwa, a major Bantu ethnic group and language community primarily found in northern Mozambique.
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D.
Stephania
Stephania is a genus of twining or climbing flowering plants known for their distinctive peltate leaves and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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E.
The Potato Planters
The Potato Planters is a realist painting by Jean-François Millet depicting rural peasants laboring in the fields, emblematic of his focus on the dignity and hardship of peasant life.
- 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: Sweet Potato Piper Target entity description: "Sweet Potato Piper" is a musical number performed by Bing Crosby in the 1940 comedy film *Road to Singapore*.
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A.
Roselle
Roselle is a suburban village in northeastern Illinois, United States, located in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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B.
Matucana
Matucana is a small Andean town in Peru that serves as the capital of Huarochirí Province in the Lima Region.
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C.
Macua
Macua is an alternative name for Makhuwa, a major Bantu ethnic group and language community primarily found in northern Mozambique.
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D.
Stephania
Stephania is a genus of twining or climbing flowering plants known for their distinctive peltate leaves and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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E.
The Potato Planters
The Potato Planters is a realist painting by Jean-François Millet depicting rural peasants laboring in the fields, emblematic of his focus on the dignity and hardship of peasant life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWithCoStars |
Bob Hope
ⓘ
Dorothy Lamour ⓘ |
| associatedWithDirector | Victor Schertzinger ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | musical comedy film ⓘ |
| associatedWithStudio | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionCompany | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| featuredInFilm | Road to Singapore ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| genre |
film song
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Sweet Potato Piper ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | film musical sequence ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | sound film ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a Bing Crosby number in Road to Singapore ⓘ |
| partOfFilmSeries |
Road to ... film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Road to... film series
|
| performedByCharacterInFilm | Josh Mallon ⓘ |
| performer | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| usedAs | diegetic music in film ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Sweet Potato Piper Description of subject: "Sweet Potato Piper" is a musical number performed by Bing Crosby in the 1940 comedy film *Road to Singapore*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.