Summertime
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"Summertime" is a famous aria from George Gershwin's opera *Porgy and Bess*, renowned as a jazz standard and one of the most covered songs in music history.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Summertime canonical | 14 |
| Summertime (recording) | 1 |
| Summertime, and the livin' is easy | 1 |
| singing the lullaby "Summertime" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008660 — 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: Summertime Context triple: [George Gershwin, notableWork, Summertime]
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A.
Summertime
Summertime is a 1943 painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary woman standing in sunlight at the entrance of a building, characteristic of his themes of urban isolation and quiet introspection.
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B.
Summer’s Day
"Summer’s Day" is an Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting two elegantly dressed women boating on a lake in a Parisian park.
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C.
All Summer Long
"All Summer Long" is a 2008 rock/country crossover hit by Kid Rock that nostalgically blends elements of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s "Sweet Home Alabama" and Warren Zevon’s "Werewolves of London."
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D.
Summer All Over
"Summer All Over" is a song by the American alternative rock band Mutable Set.
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E.
Sunny Day
"Sunny Day" is an R&B song by Brandy featured on her self-titled debut studio album.
- 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: Summertime Target entity description: "Summertime" is a famous aria from George Gershwin's opera *Porgy and Bess*, renowned as a jazz standard and one of the most covered songs in music history.
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A.
Summertime
Summertime is a 1943 painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary woman standing in sunlight at the entrance of a building, characteristic of his themes of urban isolation and quiet introspection.
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B.
Summer’s Day
"Summer’s Day" is an Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting two elegantly dressed women boating on a lake in a Parisian park.
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C.
All Summer Long
"All Summer Long" is a 2008 rock/country crossover hit by Kid Rock that nostalgically blends elements of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s "Sweet Home Alabama" and Warren Zevon’s "Werewolves of London."
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D.
Summer All Over
"Summer All Over" is a song by the American alternative rock band Mutable Set.
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E.
Sunny Day
"Sunny Day" is an R&B song by Brandy featured on her self-titled debut studio album.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aria
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jazz standard ⓘ popular song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| additionalLyricist | Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American jazz repertoire
ⓘ
Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel Porgy by DuBose Heyward ⓘ |
| composer | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ opera aria ⓘ |
| hasCatalogNumber | Gershwin work number from Porgy and Bess (unspecified) ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
comfort
ⓘ
hope ⓘ mother’s lullaby ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
blues
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ pop ⓘ |
| key | A minor (commonly performed) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | DuBose Heyward ⓘ |
| musicalForm | lullaby ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most covered songs in recorded music history
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frequent performance by jazz vocalists and instrumentalists ⓘ status as a jazz standard ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy |
Billie Holiday
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Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ Janis Joplin ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ Miles Davis ⓘ |
| openingLyrics |
Summertime
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Summertime, and the livin' is easy
|
| originalMedium | opera ⓘ |
| originalProductionCity |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
|
| originalProductionLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| originalProductionTheatre |
Emerson Colonial Theatre
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surface form:
Colonial Theatre
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| partOfWork | Porgy and Bess ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| rightsHolder | Gershwin estate ⓘ |
| setting |
Catfish Row
ⓘ
Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
Charleston, South Carolina
|
| sungByCharacter | Clara ⓘ |
| tempoMarking | lullaby-like ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | early 20th century ⓘ |
| vocalType | soprano aria ⓘ |
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: Summertime Description of subject: "Summertime" is a famous aria from George Gershwin's opera *Porgy and Bess*, renowned as a jazz standard and one of the most covered songs in music history.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Summertime, and the livin' is easy
this entity surface form:
Summertime (recording)
this entity surface form:
singing the lullaby "Summertime"
subject surface form:
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