Supper Time
E1039527
"Supper Time" is a poignant 1933 song introduced by Ethel Waters in Irving Berlin’s revue *As Thousands Cheer*, noted for its powerful commentary on racial violence and lynching in America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Supper Time canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13394175 — 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: Supper Time Context triple: [Ethel Waters, notableWork, Supper Time]
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A.
Supper
"Supper" is a critically acclaimed 2003 indie folk album by the American musician Smog (Bill Callahan), noted for its intimate songwriting and sparse, melancholic arrangements.
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B.
Late for Dinner
Late for Dinner is a 1991 science-fiction dramedy film about two men accidentally cryogenically frozen in the 1960s who wake up in the 1990s and struggle to reconnect with their past lives.
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C.
Dinner for Two
"Dinner for Two" is a track from the collaborative album *Love This Giant* by David Byrne and St. Vincent, blending art-pop and brass-driven arrangements.
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D.
Friday Night Dinner
Friday Night Dinner is a British sitcom centered on the chaotic weekly Shabbat dinners of the Goodman family, known for its absurd humor and offbeat family dynamics.
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E.
Dinner Rush
"Dinner Rush" is a 2000 independent crime drama film set in a bustling New York City restaurant, blending high-stakes kitchen pressure with mob intrigue and ensemble storytelling.
- 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: Supper Time Target entity description: "Supper Time" is a poignant 1933 song introduced by Ethel Waters in Irving Berlin’s revue *As Thousands Cheer*, noted for its powerful commentary on racial violence and lynching in America.
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A.
Supper
"Supper" is a critically acclaimed 2003 indie folk album by the American musician Smog (Bill Callahan), noted for its intimate songwriting and sparse, melancholic arrangements.
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B.
Late for Dinner
Late for Dinner is a 1991 science-fiction dramedy film about two men accidentally cryogenically frozen in the 1960s who wake up in the 1990s and struggle to reconnect with their past lives.
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C.
Dinner for Two
"Dinner for Two" is a track from the collaborative album *Love This Giant* by David Byrne and St. Vincent, blending art-pop and brass-driven arrangements.
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D.
Friday Night Dinner
Friday Night Dinner is a British sitcom centered on the chaotic weekly Shabbat dinners of the Goodman family, known for its absurd humor and offbeat family dynamics.
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E.
Dinner Rush
"Dinner Rush" is a 2000 independent crime drama film set in a bustling New York City restaurant, blending high-stakes kitchen pressure with mob intrigue and ensemble storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical composition
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song ⓘ |
| addresses | racial terror lynching ⓘ |
| associatedPerformer | Ethel Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Irving Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Irving Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| firstPerformer | Ethel Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstStagedIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
popular song
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
African American experience
NERFINISHED
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grief ⓘ loss ⓘ |
| hasType |
protest song
ⓘ
social commentary song ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the earliest mainstream American songs to confront lynching ⓘ |
| includedIn | Irving Berlin song catalog ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Ethel Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Irving Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | voice and piano ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early protest song against lynching on the Broadway stage
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poignant portrayal of a widow whose husband has been lynched ⓘ |
| partOf | As Thousands Cheer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performanceForm | solo vocal piece ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| setInContextOf | Jim Crow era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
lynching in the United States
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racial injustice ⓘ racial violence in the United States ⓘ |
| workType | revue song ⓘ |
| writtenFor | As Thousands Cheer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfCreation | 1933 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Supper Time Description of subject: "Supper Time" is a poignant 1933 song introduced by Ethel Waters in Irving Berlin’s revue *As Thousands Cheer*, noted for its powerful commentary on racial violence and lynching in America.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.