Costume Makes the Clown
E731922
"Costume Makes the Clown" is a song by Shakira from her English-language studio album Oral Fixation, Vol. 2.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Costume Makes the Clown canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8428243 — 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: Costume Makes the Clown Context triple: [Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, hasTrack, Costume Makes the Clown]
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A.
The Circus Clown
The Circus Clown is a 1934 American drama film directed by George Melford that follows the struggles and triumphs of a performer in the world of circus entertainment.
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B.
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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C.
"Clown"
"Clown" is a wordless children's picture book by Quentin Blake that follows a discarded toy clown who comes to life and searches for a new home.
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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.
Be a Clown
"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.
- 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: Costume Makes the Clown Target entity description: "Costume Makes the Clown" is a song by Shakira from her English-language studio album Oral Fixation, Vol. 2.
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A.
The Circus Clown
The Circus Clown is a 1934 American drama film directed by George Melford that follows the struggles and triumphs of a performer in the world of circus entertainment.
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B.
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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C.
"Clown"
"Clown" is a wordless children's picture book by Quentin Blake that follows a discarded toy clown who comes to life and searches for a new home.
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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.
Be a Clown
"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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
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studio album ⓘ |
| album | Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 ⓘ |
| artist |
Shakira
ⓘ
Shakira ⓘ |
| composer | Shakira ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Colombia ⓘ |
| genre | pop ⓘ |
| hasLyricsLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Costume Makes the Clown ⓘ |
| hasTrack | Costume Makes the Clown ⓘ |
| includedIn | Shakira discography ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Shakira ⓘ |
| medium | studio recording ⓘ |
| partOf | Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 ⓘ |
| performer | Shakira ⓘ |
| performerNationality | Colombian ⓘ |
| publicationType | album track ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Shakira ⓘ |
| vocalType | female vocals ⓘ |
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: Costume Makes the Clown Description of subject: "Costume Makes the Clown" is a song by Shakira from her English-language studio album Oral Fixation, Vol. 2.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.