The Ballad of Guiteau
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"The Ballad of Guiteau" is a darkly comic musical number from Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s stage musical *Assassins*, dramatizing the delusional optimism of presidential assassin Charles J. Guiteau.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Ballad of Guiteau canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15202039 — 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: The Ballad of Guiteau Context triple: [Assassins, notableSong, The Ballad of Guiteau]
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A.
Murder on Capitol Hill
Murder on Capitol Hill is a political mystery novel by Margaret Truman set in Washington, D.C., involving intrigue and murder within the halls of the U.S. Congress.
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B.
Murder at Carthage Jail
Murder at Carthage Jail refers to the 1844 killing of Latter-day Saint leaders Joseph and Hyrum Smith by an armed mob while they were imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois.
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C.
Noose for a Gunman
Noose for a Gunman is a 1960 American Western film centered on frontier justice, outlaws, and moral conflict in a lawless town.
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D.
Murder in the White House
Murder in the White House is a political mystery novel by Elliott Roosevelt that features a fictionalized Eleanor Roosevelt solving a murder inside the presidential residence.
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E.
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Lincoln Conspiracy is a 1977 historical thriller film that dramatizes an alternative theory about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, suggesting a broader political plot behind the crime.
- 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: The Ballad of Guiteau Target entity description: "The Ballad of Guiteau" is a darkly comic musical number from Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s stage musical *Assassins*, dramatizing the delusional optimism of presidential assassin Charles J. Guiteau.
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A.
Murder on Capitol Hill
Murder on Capitol Hill is a political mystery novel by Margaret Truman set in Washington, D.C., involving intrigue and murder within the halls of the U.S. Congress.
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B.
Murder at Carthage Jail
Murder at Carthage Jail refers to the 1844 killing of Latter-day Saint leaders Joseph and Hyrum Smith by an armed mob while they were imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois.
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C.
Noose for a Gunman
Noose for a Gunman is a 1960 American Western film centered on frontier justice, outlaws, and moral conflict in a lawless town.
-
D.
Murder in the White House
Murder in the White House is a political mystery novel by Elliott Roosevelt that features a fictionalized Eleanor Roosevelt solving a murder inside the presidential residence.
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E.
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Lincoln Conspiracy is a 1977 historical thriller film that dramatizes an alternative theory about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, suggesting a broader political plot behind the crime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.