Song for My Father
E246615
"Song for My Father" is a classic hard bop jazz composition and album by pianist Horace Silver, renowned for its memorable piano riff and influence on later jazz and popular music.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Song for My Father canonical | 7 |
| Song for My Father (Horace Silver album) | 1 |
| Song for My Father (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2250861 — 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: Song for My Father Context triple: [Horace Silver, notableWork, Song for My Father]
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A.
Song for Our Daughter
Song for Our Daughter is a critically acclaimed 2020 folk album by British singer-songwriter Laura Marling, noted for its intimate songwriting and mature, reflective themes.
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B.
Our Song
"Our Song" is a track by the English progressive rock band Yes, featured on their 1983 album "90125."
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C.
My Old Man
"My Old Man" is a reflective folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1971 album *Blue*, exploring themes of love, independence, and emotional vulnerability.
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D.
A Letter to My Father
A Letter to My Father is a memoir by Patti Davis reflecting on her complex relationship with her father, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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E.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
- 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: Song for My Father Target entity description: "Song for My Father" is a classic hard bop jazz composition and album by pianist Horace Silver, renowned for its memorable piano riff and influence on later jazz and popular music.
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A.
Song for Our Daughter
Song for Our Daughter is a critically acclaimed 2020 folk album by British singer-songwriter Laura Marling, noted for its intimate songwriting and mature, reflective themes.
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B.
Our Song
"Our Song" is a track by the English progressive rock band Yes, featured on their 1983 album "90125."
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C.
My Old Man
"My Old Man" is a reflective folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1971 album *Blue*, exploring themes of love, independence, and emotional vulnerability.
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D.
A Letter to My Father
A Letter to My Father is a memoir by Patti Davis reflecting on her complex relationship with her father, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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E.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hard bop composition
ⓘ
jazz composition ⓘ jazz standard ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Horace Silver ⓘ |
| composer | Horace Silver ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dedicatedTo | Horace Silver's father ⓘ |
| featuresMusician |
Carmell Jones
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Horace Silver ⓘ Joe Henderson ⓘ Roger Humphries ⓘ Teddy Smith ⓘ |
| genre |
hard bop
ⓘ
hard bop ⓘ jazz ⓘ |
| hasPart |
piano solo
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tenor saxophone solo ⓘ trumpet solo ⓘ |
| includedIn | Horace Silver songbook ⓘ |
| includesTrack | Song for My Father self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| influenced |
Song "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
ⓘ
Steely Dan ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
jazz fusion
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ post-bop jazz ⓘ |
| instrumentationFeature | piano riff ⓘ |
| key | F minor ⓘ |
| language |
instrumental
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instrumental jazz ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
distinctive opening piano figure
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memorable piano bass line ⓘ |
| originalAlbum |
Song for My Father
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Song for My Father (album)
|
| performancePractice | frequently performed in small jazz combos ⓘ |
| producer | Alfred Lion ⓘ |
| publisher | Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| recordedAt | Van Gelder Studio ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Horace Silver Quintet ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
ⓘ
Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
1965
ⓘ
1965 ⓘ |
| status | jazz standard in the hard bop repertoire ⓘ |
| style | Latin-tinged hard bop ⓘ |
| timeSignature | 4/4 ⓘ |
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: Song for My Father Description of subject: "Song for My Father" is a classic hard bop jazz composition and album by pianist Horace Silver, renowned for its memorable piano riff and influence on later jazz and popular music.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Song for My Father (album)
subject surface form:
Song for My Father (album)
this entity surface form:
Song for My Father (Horace Silver album)