The Singing Fool
E203826
The Singing Fool is a 1928 American musical drama film starring Al Jolson, notable as an early sound feature that helped solidify his status as one of the era’s biggest stars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Singing Fool canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1823542 — 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 Singing Fool Context triple: [Al Jolson, notableWork, The Singing Fool]
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A.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
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B.
Foolish Fool
"Foolish Fool" is a 1969 soul single by American singer Dee Dee Warwick, noted for its emotive vocals and classic late-1960s R&B style.
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C.
Fool's Paradise
Fool's Paradise is a 2023 satirical comedy film that marks Charlie Day's feature directorial debut, following a mute man who becomes an accidental Hollywood star.
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D.
With a Smile and a Song
"With a Smile and a Song" is a cheerful, optimistic musical number sung by Snow White in Disney’s classic animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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E.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
- 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 Singing Fool Target entity description: The Singing Fool is a 1928 American musical drama film starring Al Jolson, notable as an early sound feature that helped solidify his status as one of the era’s biggest stars.
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A.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
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B.
Foolish Fool
"Foolish Fool" is a 1969 soul single by American singer Dee Dee Warwick, noted for its emotive vocals and classic late-1960s R&B style.
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C.
Fool's Paradise
Fool's Paradise is a 2023 satirical comedy film that marks Charlie Day's feature directorial debut, following a mute man who becomes an accidental Hollywood star.
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D.
With a Smile and a Song
"With a Smile and a Song" is a cheerful, optimistic musical number sung by Snow White in Disney’s classic animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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E.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: The Singing Fool Description of subject: The Singing Fool is a 1928 American musical drama film starring Al Jolson, notable as an early sound feature that helped solidify his status as one of the era’s biggest stars.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.