Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O
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"Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O" is the famous, recurring refrain from Robert Burns’s Scots song “Green Grow the Rashes, O,” celebrating the joy of time spent in the company of women.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7247193 — 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: Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O Context triple: [Green Grow the Rashes, O, refrain, Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O]
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A.
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May is a Pre-Raphaelite-style oil painting by John William Waterhouse that depicts young women gathering flowers as an allegory of the fleeting nature of youth and beauty.
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B.
She of the bells on her cheeks
She of the bells on her cheeks is the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauhqui, known from Mexica mythology and monumental stone carvings depicting her dismemberment by the god Huitzilopochtli.
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C.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough" is a famous opening line from Edward FitzGerald’s English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, evoking an ideal of simple, contemplative pleasure in nature.
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D.
Green Grow the Lilacs
Green Grow the Lilacs is a 1931 stage play by Lynn Riggs, a folk drama set in Indian Territory that later served as the basis for the musical Oklahoma!.
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E.
To Daffodils
"To Daffodils" is a lyric poem by Robert Herrick that meditates on the brevity of life through the fleeting beauty of daffodil flowers.
- 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: Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O Target entity description: "Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O" is the famous, recurring refrain from Robert Burns’s Scots song “Green Grow the Rashes, O,” celebrating the joy of time spent in the company of women.
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A.
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May is a Pre-Raphaelite-style oil painting by John William Waterhouse that depicts young women gathering flowers as an allegory of the fleeting nature of youth and beauty.
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B.
She of the bells on her cheeks
She of the bells on her cheeks is the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauhqui, known from Mexica mythology and monumental stone carvings depicting her dismemberment by the god Huitzilopochtli.
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C.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough" is a famous opening line from Edward FitzGerald’s English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, evoking an ideal of simple, contemplative pleasure in nature.
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D.
Green Grow the Lilacs
Green Grow the Lilacs is a 1931 stage play by Lynn Riggs, a folk drama set in Indian Territory that later served as the basis for the musical Oklahoma!.
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E.
To Daffodils
"To Daffodils" is a lyric poem by Robert Herrick that meditates on the brevity of life through the fleeting beauty of daffodil flowers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
poetic line
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song refrain ⓘ |
| associatedWith | 18th-century Scottish song tradition ⓘ |
| author | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| containsDialectWord |
"amang"
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"lasses" ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | well-known refrain in Burns’s songs ⓘ |
| expressesEmotion |
affection
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happiness ⓘ |
| genre | song refrain ⓘ |
| hasLine |
"Are spent amang the lasses, O"
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"Green grow the rashes, O" ⓘ "The sweetest hours that e’er I spend" ⓘ |
| language | Scots ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Scottish literature ⓘ |
| meter | song verse meter ⓘ |
| partOf | "Green Grow the Rashes, O" ⓘ |
| refrainOf | Scots song ⓘ |
| register | colloquial Scots ⓘ |
| repetitionFunction | chorus ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | O-ending refrain ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | time spent with women ⓘ |
| theme |
joy of companionship
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love ⓘ pleasure in the company of women ⓘ |
| usedIn | performances of "Green Grow the Rashes, O" ⓘ |
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: Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O Description of subject: "Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O" is the famous, recurring refrain from Robert Burns’s Scots song “Green Grow the Rashes, O,” celebrating the joy of time spent in the company of women.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Green Grow the Rashes, O
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refrain
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Green grow the rashes, O, / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O
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