God Bless the Child
E178489
"God Bless the Child" is a classic jazz and blues standard, co-written and famously performed by Billie Holiday, known for its poignant lyrics about financial independence and emotional resilience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| God Bless the Child canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1585798 — 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: God Bless the Child Context triple: [Billie Holiday, notableWork, God Bless the Child]
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A.
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues is a landmark 1926 poetry collection by Langston Hughes that helped define the voice and themes of the Harlem Renaissance.
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B.
Blues for Mister Charlie
Blues for Mister Charlie is a 1964 stage play by James Baldwin that confronts racism and injustice in the American South, loosely inspired by the murder of Emmett Till.
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C.
I, Too
"I, Too" is a short, powerful poem by Langston Hughes that asserts the dignity and eventual recognition of African Americans within the American identity.
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D.
My Mammy
"My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
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E.
Mama Said
"Mama Said" is a 1991 rock album by American musician Lenny Kravitz that blends classic rock, soul, and funk influences and includes the hit single "It Ain't Over 'til It's Over."
- 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: God Bless the Child Target entity description: "God Bless the Child" is a classic jazz and blues standard, co-written and famously performed by Billie Holiday, known for its poignant lyrics about financial independence and emotional resilience.
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A.
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues is a landmark 1926 poetry collection by Langston Hughes that helped define the voice and themes of the Harlem Renaissance.
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B.
Blues for Mister Charlie
Blues for Mister Charlie is a 1964 stage play by James Baldwin that confronts racism and injustice in the American South, loosely inspired by the murder of Emmett Till.
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C.
I, Too
"I, Too" is a short, powerful poem by Langston Hughes that asserts the dignity and eventual recognition of African Americans within the American identity.
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D.
My Mammy
"My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
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E.
Mama Said
"Mama Said" is a 1991 rock album by American musician Lenny Kravitz that blends classic rock, soul, and funk influences and includes the hit single "It Ain't Over 'til It's Over."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues standard
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jazz standard ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | Billie Holiday ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| coWriter |
Arthur Herzog Jr.
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Billie Holiday ⓘ |
| famousFor |
Billie Holiday vocal performance
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poignant lyrics ⓘ |
| firstRecordingArtist | Billie Holiday ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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jazz ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
blues vocal repertoire
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jazz vocal repertoire ⓘ |
| hasNotableVersion | Billie Holiday recording ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Billie Holiday ⓘ |
| lyricTopic |
money
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self-reliance ⓘ |
| musicalForm | popular song ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Billie Holiday ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | Billie Holiday ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great American Songbook
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surface form:
American songbook
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| theme |
emotional resilience
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financial independence ⓘ |
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: God Bless the Child Description of subject: "God Bless the Child" is a classic jazz and blues standard, co-written and famously performed by Billie Holiday, known for its poignant lyrics about financial independence and emotional resilience.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lady Sings the Blues
subject surface form:
Eleanora Fagan