Be a Clown
E622413
"Be a Clown" is a popular song by Cole Porter, introduced in the 1948 MGM musical film "The Pirate" and later becoming a well-known standard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Be a Clown canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6813025 — 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: Be a Clown Context triple: [The Pirate, featuresSong, Be a Clown]
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A.
Pocket of a Clown
"Pocket of a Clown" is a country song by Dwight Yoakam, known for its blend of traditional honky-tonk style with introspective, emotionally charged lyrics.
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B.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 silent drama film starring Lon Chaney as a tragic circus clown torn between love and duty.
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C.
Clowns
"Clowns" is a photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she uses elaborate costumes and makeup to explore identity, performance, and the unsettling aspects of clown imagery.
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D.
Buttons the Clown
Buttons the Clown is a central character in the 1952 circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth," portrayed as a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup and hides a troubled past.
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E.
Send in the Clowns
"Send in the Clowns" is a reflective ballad from the 1973 musical *A Little Night Music* that became one of Stephen Sondheim’s most famous and frequently recorded songs.
- 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: Be a Clown Target entity description: "Be a Clown" is a popular song by Cole Porter, introduced in the 1948 MGM musical film "The Pirate" and later becoming a well-known standard.
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A.
Pocket of a Clown
"Pocket of a Clown" is a country song by Dwight Yoakam, known for its blend of traditional honky-tonk style with introspective, emotionally charged lyrics.
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B.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 silent drama film starring Lon Chaney as a tragic circus clown torn between love and duty.
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C.
Clowns
"Clowns" is a photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she uses elaborate costumes and makeup to explore identity, performance, and the unsettling aspects of clown imagery.
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D.
Buttons the Clown
Buttons the Clown is a central character in the 1952 circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth," portrayed as a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup and hides a troubled past.
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E.
Send in the Clowns
"Send in the Clowns" is a reflective ballad from the 1973 musical *A Little Night Music* that became one of Stephen Sondheim’s most famous and frequently recorded songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
ⓘ
standard ⓘ |
| associatedWithStudio | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| composer | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredInSoundtrackOf | The Pirate ⓘ |
| filmStudio | MGM ⓘ |
| filmType | musical film ⓘ |
| genre |
film musical song
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Gene Kelly
ⓘ
Judy Garland ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Be a Clown ⓘ |
| introducedInFilm | The Pirate ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| isStandardIn | American popular song repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| musicBy | Cole Porter ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| originalMedium | film musical ⓘ |
| partOf | The Pirate (soundtrack) ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| writer | Cole Porter ⓘ |
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: Be a Clown Description of subject: "Be a Clown" is a popular song by Cole Porter, introduced in the 1948 MGM musical film "The Pirate" and later becoming a well-known standard.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.