Bang the Drum Slowly
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Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 American sports drama film about the friendship between a star pitcher and his terminally ill catcher on a professional baseball team.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bang the Drum Slowly canonical | 11 |
| Bang the Drum Slowly (novel) | 2 |
| Bang the Drum Slowly (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11318055 — 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: Bang the Drum Slowly Context triple: [Vincent Gardenia, notableWork, Bang the Drum Slowly]
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A.
Bang the Drum Slowly
"Bang the Drum Slowly" is a reflective, folk-influenced song by Emmylou Harris, known for its elegiac tone and storytelling on her album *Red Dirt Girl*.
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B.
Bang the Drum All Day
"Bang the Drum All Day" is a 1983 novelty rock song by Todd Rundgren, best known as an upbeat, tongue-in-cheek anthem about avoiding work and responsibility.
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C.
Nothing But a Man
Nothing But a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film that portrays the struggles of a Black railroad worker and his family in the racially segregated American South.
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D.
6 O’Clock Blues
"6 O’Clock Blues" is a soulful R&B track by Solange Knowles featured on her album *Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams*.
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E.
Song Sung Blue
"Song Sung Blue" is a 1972 soft rock hit by Neil Diamond that became one of his signature songs and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- 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: Bang the Drum Slowly Target entity description: Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 American sports drama film about the friendship between a star pitcher and his terminally ill catcher on a professional baseball team.
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A.
Bang the Drum Slowly
"Bang the Drum Slowly" is a reflective, folk-influenced song by Emmylou Harris, known for its elegiac tone and storytelling on her album *Red Dirt Girl*.
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B.
Bang the Drum All Day
"Bang the Drum All Day" is a 1983 novelty rock song by Todd Rundgren, best known as an upbeat, tongue-in-cheek anthem about avoiding work and responsibility.
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C.
Nothing But a Man
Nothing But a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film that portrays the struggles of a Black railroad worker and his family in the racially segregated American South.
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D.
6 O’Clock Blues
"6 O’Clock Blues" is a soulful R&B track by Solange Knowles featured on her album *Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams*.
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E.
Song Sung Blue
"Song Sung Blue" is a 1972 soft rock hit by Neil Diamond that became one of his signature songs and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Bang the Drum Slowly Description of subject: Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 American sports drama film about the friendship between a star pitcher and his terminally ill catcher on a professional baseball team.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bang the Drum Slowly
linked to: Bang the Drum Slowly
subject linked to:
Dutch Schnell in "Bang the Drum Slowly"
subject linked to:
Dutch Schnell in "Bang the Drum Slowly"
linked to: Bang the Drum Slowly