St. James Infirmary
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"St. James Infirmary" is a classic American blues and jazz standard, often associated with a mournful, narrative style about loss and death.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. James Infirmary canonical | 3 |
| St. James Infirmary Blues | 2 |
| St. James Infirmary Blues (recording) | 1 |
| The St. James Infirmary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6740104 — 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: St. James Infirmary Context triple: [Two Steps from the Blues, hasTrack, St. James Infirmary]
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A.
Long Tall Sally
Long Tall Sally is a 1956 rock and roll song by Little Richard, celebrated for its frantic tempo, powerful vocals, and major influence on early rock music.
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B.
Canal Street Blues
"Canal Street Blues" is a classic early jazz composition recorded in 1923 by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, renowned as one of the foundational works of New Orleans jazz.
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C.
Basin Street Blues
"Basin Street Blues" is a classic jazz standard, widely popularized by Louis Armstrong’s influential recordings and performances.
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D.
Blue Bayou
"Blue Bayou" is a melancholic pop ballad, best known through Roy Orbison’s 1963 recording and later Linda Ronstadt’s hit cover, about longing to return to an idyllic hometown.
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E.
Blue Bayou
Blue Bayou is a 2021 American drama film written and directed by Justin Chon that follows a Korean-American adoptee facing deportation from the United States.
- 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: St. James Infirmary Target entity description: "St. James Infirmary" is a classic American blues and jazz standard, often associated with a mournful, narrative style about loss and death.
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A.
Long Tall Sally
Long Tall Sally is a 1956 rock and roll song by Little Richard, celebrated for its frantic tempo, powerful vocals, and major influence on early rock music.
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B.
Canal Street Blues
"Canal Street Blues" is a classic early jazz composition recorded in 1923 by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, renowned as one of the foundational works of New Orleans jazz.
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C.
Basin Street Blues
"Basin Street Blues" is a classic jazz standard, widely popularized by Louis Armstrong’s influential recordings and performances.
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D.
Blue Bayou
Blue Bayou is a 2021 American drama film written and directed by Justin Chon that follows a Korean-American adoptee facing deportation from the United States.
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E.
Blue Bayou
"Blue Bayou" is a melancholic pop ballad, best known through Roy Orbison’s 1963 recording and later Linda Ronstadt’s hit cover, about longing to return to an idyllic hometown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: St. James Infirmary Description of subject: "St. James Infirmary" is a classic American blues and jazz standard, often associated with a mournful, narrative style about loss and death.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St. James Infirmary
subject linked to:
album "I Stand Alone"
linked to: St. James Infirmary
linked to: St. James Infirmary
linked to: St. James Infirmary