Minnie the Moocher
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"Minnie the Moocher" is a classic 1931 jazz and scat-singing hit by Cab Calloway, famous for its call-and-response "hi-de-hi-de-ho" chorus and enduring influence in popular culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnie the Moocher canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3150622 — 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: Minnie the Moocher Context triple: [The Blues Brothers, notableSongPerformance, Minnie the Moocher]
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A.
I Got Rhythm
"I Got Rhythm" is a popular jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, renowned for its catchy melody and influential chord progression widely used in jazz improvisation.
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B.
Alexander's Ragtime Band
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a hugely popular 1911 ragtime song that helped launch Irving Berlin's career and became one of the early standards of American popular music.
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C.
Syncopation
Syncopation is a 1942 American musical drama film centered on the history and development of jazz music.
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D.
Tutti Frutti
"Tutti Frutti" is a 1955 rock and roll song by Little Richard that became one of his signature hits and a foundational record in the development of the genre.
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E.
Old Man Rhythm
Old Man Rhythm is a 1935 American musical comedy film starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, known for its lighthearted plot and lively musical numbers.
- 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: Minnie the Moocher Target entity description: "Minnie the Moocher" is a classic 1931 jazz and scat-singing hit by Cab Calloway, famous for its call-and-response "hi-de-hi-de-ho" chorus and enduring influence in popular culture.
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A.
I Got Rhythm
"I Got Rhythm" is a popular jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, renowned for its catchy melody and influential chord progression widely used in jazz improvisation.
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B.
Alexander's Ragtime Band
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a hugely popular 1911 ragtime song that helped launch Irving Berlin's career and became one of the early standards of American popular music.
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C.
Syncopation
Syncopation is a 1942 American musical drama film centered on the history and development of jazz music.
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D.
Tutti Frutti
"Tutti Frutti" is a 1955 rock and roll song by Little Richard that became one of his signature hits and a foundational record in the development of the genre.
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E.
Old Man Rhythm
Old Man Rhythm is a 1935 American musical comedy film starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, known for its lighthearted plot and lively musical numbers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz song
ⓘ
single ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Cab Calloway Orchestra
ⓘ
surface form:
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
|
| chartSuccess | major hit in the early 1930s ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coveredBy | many later jazz and pop artists ⓘ |
| culturalStatus |
jazz standard
ⓘ
pop culture icon ⓘ |
| era | Harlem Renaissance era jazz ⓘ |
| firstRecordedBy |
Cab Calloway Orchestra
ⓘ
surface form:
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
|
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
swing ⓘ |
| hasAlternateVersions | multiple live and studio recordings by Cab Calloway ⓘ |
| hasCatchphrase |
"hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho"
ⓘ
"ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-ho" ⓘ |
| hasChorus | "hi-de-hi-de-ho" call-and-response chorus ⓘ |
| hasLivePerformanceTradition | call-and-response with increasingly complex scat syllables ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeForm | third-person ballad ⓘ |
| hasRecordingFormat | 78 rpm shellac record ⓘ |
| hasRefrainType | audience participation refrain ⓘ |
| includedIn | Cab Calloway compilation albums ⓘ |
| influenced |
call-and-response audience participation in popular music
ⓘ
later scat-singing performances ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legacy | enduring influence in popular culture ⓘ |
| lyricCharacter |
Minnie Fay
ⓘ
surface form:
Minnie
Smokey ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
call-and-response vocals with audience
ⓘ
extensive scat improvisation ⓘ storytelling lyrics about a character named Minnie ⓘ |
| performanceVenueAssociatedWith | Cotton Club, New York City ⓘ |
| performer | Cab Calloway ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | one of the earliest big-selling jazz records ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Brunswick Records
ⓘ
Okeh Records ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Cab Calloway ⓘ |
| theme |
crime and excess
ⓘ
jazz-age nightlife ⓘ tragic romance ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | Prohibition-era urban life ⓘ |
| usedIn |
The Blues Brothers
ⓘ
surface form:
film "The Blues Brothers"
television shows and commercials ⓘ various cartoons and animated shorts ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | scat singing ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Minnie the Moocher Description of subject: "Minnie the Moocher" is a classic 1931 jazz and scat-singing hit by Cab Calloway, famous for its call-and-response "hi-de-hi-de-ho" chorus and enduring influence in popular culture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.