Please Mr. Kennedy
E1016112
"Please Mr. Kennedy" is a comedic, retro-styled folk song performed by Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac, and Adam Driver, featured prominently in the Coen brothers' film *Inside Llewyn Davis*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Please Mr. Kennedy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13003883 — 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: Please Mr. Kennedy Context triple: [Inside Llewyn Davis: Original Soundtrack Recording, includesTrack, Please Mr. Kennedy]
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A.
Miss Kennedy
Miss Kennedy is a staff member at St. Clare's School, likely serving as a teacher or administrator within the institution.
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B.
Mr. President
"Mr. President" is the formal spoken address traditionally used for the sitting President of the United States.
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C.
Mr. President
"Mr. President" is the formal style of address used for the presiding officer of the Massachusetts Senate.
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D.
Mr. President
Mr. President is the formal style of address used for the head of state of Bulgaria.
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E.
Mr. President
"Mr. President" is the formal style of address used for the presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies.
- 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: Please Mr. Kennedy Target entity description: "Please Mr. Kennedy" is a comedic, retro-styled folk song performed by Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac, and Adam Driver, featured prominently in the Coen brothers' film *Inside Llewyn Davis*.
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A.
Miss Kennedy
Miss Kennedy is a staff member at St. Clare's School, likely serving as a teacher or administrator within the institution.
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B.
Mr. President
Mr. President is the formal style of address used for the head of state of Bulgaria.
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C.
Mr. President
"Mr. President" is the formal style of address used for the presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies.
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D.
Mr. President
Mr. President is the formal style of address used for the head of state of Algeria.
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E.
Mr. President
"Mr. President" is the formal spoken address traditionally used for the sitting President of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directorOfFeaturingWork |
Ethan Coen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joel Coen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredInWork | Inside Llewyn Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredInWorkType | film ⓘ |
| filmSettingPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy song
ⓘ
folk ⓘ novelty song ⓘ retro-styled song ⓘ |
| hasChorusPhrase | Please Mr. Kennedy, uh-oh, I don’t wanna go ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
backing vocals ⓘ handclaps ⓘ percussion ⓘ |
| hasPerformerRole |
Adam Driver as Al Cody
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Justin Timberlake as Jim Berkey NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Isaac as Llewyn Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intendedEffect | humor ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | film soundtrack recording ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | reluctance to participate in a space mission ⓘ |
| partOfSoundtrack | Inside Llewyn Davis (soundtrack) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer |
Adam Driver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Justin Timberlake NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Isaac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | studio recording ⓘ |
| recordedFor | Inside Llewyn Davis (original soundtrack recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseContext | released in conjunction with the film Inside Llewyn Davis ⓘ |
| style |
1960s pop pastiche
ⓘ
parody of early space-race novelty records ⓘ |
| usedAs | comic relief scene in Inside Llewyn Davis ⓘ |
| vocalArrangement | male vocal ensemble ⓘ |
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: Please Mr. Kennedy Description of subject: "Please Mr. Kennedy" is a comedic, retro-styled folk song performed by Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac, and Adam Driver, featured prominently in the Coen brothers' film *Inside Llewyn Davis*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.