Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special
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"Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special" is a medley recording by ABBA that combines three traditional folk and work songs into a single track.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11035845 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special Context triple: [Summer Night City, hasBside, Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special]
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On Top of Old Smoky
"On Top of Old Smoky" is a traditional American folk song that gained widespread popularity through mid-20th-century recordings, notably by the folk group The Weavers.
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B.
Medley: Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / Night Life
"Medley: Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / Night Life" is a country medley popularized by Willie Nelson that weaves together three of his classic songs into a single performance.
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C.
Nashville Skyline Rag
"Nashville Skyline Rag" is an instrumental country tune by Bob Dylan featured on his 1969 album *Nashville Skyline*.
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D.
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" is a lively, genre-blending song by the Grateful Dead known for its shifting rhythms, vivid Americana storytelling, and prominent place in the band’s live repertoire.
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E.
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
McKinney's Cotton Pickers was an influential late-1920s and early-1930s African American jazz and dance band known for its sophisticated arrangements and key role in the development of big band swing.
- 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: Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special Target entity description: "Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special" is a medley recording by ABBA that combines three traditional folk and work songs into a single track.
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A.
On Top of Old Smoky
"On Top of Old Smoky" is a traditional American folk song that gained widespread popularity through mid-20th-century recordings, notably by the folk group The Weavers.
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B.
Medley: Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / Night Life
"Medley: Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / Night Life" is a country medley popularized by Willie Nelson that weaves together three of his classic songs into a single performance.
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C.
Nashville Skyline Rag
"Nashville Skyline Rag" is an instrumental country tune by Bob Dylan featured on his 1969 album *Nashville Skyline*.
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D.
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" is a lively, genre-blending song by the Grateful Dead known for its shifting rhythms, vivid Americana storytelling, and prominent place in the band’s live repertoire.
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E.
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
McKinney's Cotton Pickers was an influential late-1920s and early-1930s African American jazz and dance band known for its sophisticated arrangements and key role in the development of big band swing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
recording
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song medley ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Midnight Special
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On Top of Old Smokey ⓘ
linked to:
On Top of Old Smoky
Pick a Bale of Cotton ⓘ |
| composer | traditional ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| creditedSongwriters | traditional ⓘ |
| genre |
folk music
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work song ⓘ |
| hasLyricsLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Midnight Special
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On Top of Old Smokey ⓘ
linked to:
On Top of Old Smoky
Pick a Bale of Cotton ⓘ |
| isArrangementOf | traditional folk songs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | ABBA discography ⓘ |
| performer |
ABBA
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Agnetha Fältskog ⓘ Anni-Frid Lyngstad ⓘ Benny Andersson ⓘ Björn Ulvaeus ⓘ |
| recordedBy | ABBA ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special Description of subject: "Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special" is a medley recording by ABBA that combines three traditional folk and work songs into a single track.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Summer Night City
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hasBside
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Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton – On Top of Old Smokey – Midnight Special
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