Motherless Child
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"Motherless Child" is a traditional African American spiritual song, widely known through numerous blues, jazz, and rock interpretations, including Eric Clapton’s rendition on his album "From the Cradle."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Motherless Child canonical | 2 |
| Motherless Children | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7198559 — 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: Motherless Child Context triple: [From the Cradle, hasTrack, Motherless Child]
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A.
The Cry
The Cry is a British television drama series adapted from Helen FitzGerald's novel, focusing on the psychological unravelling of a couple after their baby goes missing.
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B.
Bastard Child
"Bastard Child" is a memoir by Joh'Vonnie Jackson in which she recounts her life as the secret daughter of Joe Jackson and her complex relationship with the famous Jackson family.
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C.
In Bed We Cry
"In Bed We Cry" is a mid-20th-century novel by American actress and author Ilka Chase, known for its witty, sophisticated portrayal of romantic and social entanglements.
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D.
Honor Thy Mother
"Honor Thy Mother" is a dramatic work by writer Robert L. Freedman, best known for his stage and television scripts.
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E.
The Voice of One Crying
The Voice of One Crying is the English title of John Gower’s Latin poem *Vox Clamantis*, a medieval work best known for its moral and political commentary on 14th-century English society and events like the Peasants’ Revolt.
- 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: Motherless Child Target entity description: "Motherless Child" is a traditional African American spiritual song, widely known through numerous blues, jazz, and rock interpretations, including Eric Clapton’s rendition on his album "From the Cradle."
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A.
The Cry
The Cry is a British television drama series adapted from Helen FitzGerald's novel, focusing on the psychological unravelling of a couple after their baby goes missing.
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B.
Bastard Child
"Bastard Child" is a memoir by Joh'Vonnie Jackson in which she recounts her life as the secret daughter of Joe Jackson and her complex relationship with the famous Jackson family.
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C.
In Bed We Cry
"In Bed We Cry" is a mid-20th-century novel by American actress and author Ilka Chase, known for its witty, sophisticated portrayal of romantic and social entanglements.
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D.
Honor Thy Mother
"Honor Thy Mother" is a dramatic work by writer Robert L. Freedman, best known for his stage and television scripts.
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E.
The Voice of One Crying
The Voice of One Crying is the English title of John Gower’s Latin poem *Vox Clamantis*, a medieval work best known for its moral and political commentary on 14th-century English society and events like the Peasants’ Revolt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American spiritual
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| albumArtist | Eric Clapton ⓘ |
| albumReleaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| associatedTopic |
African American religious music
ⓘ
lament songs ⓘ spirituals of slavery era ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | African American community in the United States ⓘ |
| emotionalTone |
melancholic
ⓘ
plaintive ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ rock ⓘ spiritual ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child ⓘ |
| hasForm | strophic song ⓘ |
| hasKnownComposer | false ⓘ |
| hasNotableInterpretationBy |
Dizzy Gillespie
ⓘ
Duke Ellington ⓘ Eric Clapton ⓘ Hootie & the Blowfish ⓘ Larry Norman ⓘ Mahalia Jackson ⓘ Marian Anderson ⓘ Nina Simone ⓘ Odetta ⓘ Paul Robeson ⓘ Richie Havens ⓘ Van Morrison ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
post‑slavery African American religious life
ⓘ
slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
blues music
ⓘ
gospel music ⓘ jazz standards repertoire ⓘ |
| isTraditional | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricOpening | Sometimes I feel like a motherless child ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
longing
ⓘ
loss ⓘ separation ⓘ spiritual exile ⓘ |
| musicTradition | African American spirituals ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
church services
ⓘ
civil rights era performances ⓘ concerts ⓘ |
| publicDomainStatus | public domain (in the United States) ⓘ |
| recordedOnAlbum | From the Cradle ⓘ |
| typicalTempo | slow ⓘ |
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: Motherless Child Description of subject: "Motherless Child" is a traditional African American spiritual song, widely known through numerous blues, jazz, and rock interpretations, including Eric Clapton’s rendition on his album "From the Cradle."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Motherless Child
subject linked to:
Eric Clapton – 461 Ocean Boulevard
linked to: Motherless Child