The Band Played On
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"The Band Played On" is a popular late-19th-century American waltz song best known for its catchy refrain about Casey who would waltz with a strawberry blonde.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Band Played On canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6464503 — 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: The Band Played On Context triple: [The Strawberry Blonde, hasTitleSong, The Band Played On]
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A.
And the Band Played On
"And the Band Played On" is a 1993 HBO docudrama film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, adapted from Randy Shilts's non-fiction book of the same name.
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B.
The Great Influenza
The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
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C.
Awakenings
Awakenings is a 1990 drama film, based on Oliver Sacks' memoir and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, about catatonic patients temporarily revived by a new drug.
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D.
The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart is a landmark 1985 play by Larry Kramer that dramatizes the early years of the AIDS crisis in New York City and the activism it sparked.
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E.
Ten Tragic Days
Ten Tragic Days was a violent ten-day coup and series of battles in Mexico City in February 1913 that led to the overthrow and assassination of President Francisco I. Madero during the Mexican Revolution.
- 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: The Band Played On Target entity description: "The Band Played On" is a popular late-19th-century American waltz song best known for its catchy refrain about Casey who would waltz with a strawberry blonde.
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A.
And the Band Played On
"And the Band Played On" is a 1993 HBO docudrama film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, adapted from Randy Shilts's non-fiction book of the same name.
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B.
The Great Influenza
The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
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C.
Awakenings
Awakenings is a 1990 drama film, based on Oliver Sacks' memoir and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, about catatonic patients temporarily revived by a new drug.
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D.
The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart is a landmark 1985 play by Larry Kramer that dramatizes the early years of the AIDS crisis in New York City and the activism it sparked.
-
E.
Ten Tragic Days
Ten Tragic Days was a violent ten-day coup and series of battles in Mexico City in February 1913 that led to the overthrow and assassination of President Francisco I. Madero during the Mexican Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
ⓘ
waltz song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| culturalOrigin | American ⓘ |
| genre |
popular music
ⓘ
waltz ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Casey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
strawberry blonde ⓘ |
| hasForm | waltz ⓘ |
| hasLyric | Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde ⓘ |
| hasMeter | 3/4 time ⓘ |
| hasRefrain | Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde ⓘ |
| hasTempo | waltz time ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Band Played On NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNotableWorkType | 19th-century American popular song ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | catchy refrain about Casey and the strawberry blonde ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| usedIn | American popular culture ⓘ |
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: The Band Played On Description of subject: "The Band Played On" is a popular late-19th-century American waltz song best known for its catchy refrain about Casey who would waltz with a strawberry blonde.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.