I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter
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"I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter" is a jazz song associated with Duke Ellington, featured in the musical revue *Sophisticated Ladies* that celebrates his music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6271329 — 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: I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter Context triple: [Sophisticated Ladies, includesSong, I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter]
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A.
Night in the Ruts
"Night in the Ruts" is a 1979 hard rock album by American band Aerosmith, known for its gritty sound and turbulent recording period marked by guitarist Joe Perry's departure.
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B.
I Gotta Have a Song
"I Gotta Have a Song" is a soul track by Stevie Wonder featured on his 1970 album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered."
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C.
The Rubberband Man
"The Rubberband Man" is a 1976 soul and R&B hit song by The Spinners, co-written by Linda Creed and Thom Bell, known for its catchy groove and elastic-themed lyrics.
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D.
Doin' That Rag
"Doin' That Rag" is a psychedelic rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its complex structure, whimsical lyrics, and prominent place in the band's late-1960s live repertoire.
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E.
In My Own Little Corner
"In My Own Little Corner" is a popular solo song from the 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical "Cinderella," expressing the heroine's imaginative escape from her constrained 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: I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter Target entity description: "I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter" is a jazz song associated with Duke Ellington, featured in the musical revue *Sophisticated Ladies* that celebrates his music.
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A.
Night in the Ruts
"Night in the Ruts" is a 1979 hard rock album by American band Aerosmith, known for its gritty sound and turbulent recording period marked by guitarist Joe Perry's departure.
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B.
I Gotta Have a Song
"I Gotta Have a Song" is a soul track by Stevie Wonder featured on his 1970 album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered."
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C.
The Rubberband Man
"The Rubberband Man" is a 1976 soul and R&B hit song by The Spinners, co-written by Linda Creed and Thom Bell, known for its catchy groove and elastic-themed lyrics.
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D.
Doin' That Rag
"Doin' That Rag" is a psychedelic rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its complex structure, whimsical lyrics, and prominent place in the band's late-1960s live repertoire.
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E.
In My Own Little Corner
"In My Own Little Corner" is a popular solo song from the 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical "Cinderella," expressing the heroine's imaginative escape from her constrained life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical revue
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Duke Ellington ⓘ |
| composer | Duke Ellington ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredIn | Sophisticated Ladies ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | big band ⓘ |
| hasTheme | dance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Duke Ellington ⓘ |
| partOf | Duke Ellington song catalog ⓘ |
| subject | music of Duke Ellington ⓘ |
| titleCharacterString | I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter ⓘ |
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: I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter Description of subject: "I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter" is a jazz song associated with Duke Ellington, featured in the musical revue *Sophisticated Ladies* that celebrates his music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.