Work Song
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"Work Song" is a hard bop jazz standard composed by cornetist Nat Adderley, famously recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet and widely regarded as one of the genre’s most enduring tunes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Work Song canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5617387 — 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: Work Song Context triple: [Cannonball Adderley, notableComposition, Work Song]
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A.
Work Song
"Work Song" is a jazz composition featured within Duke Ellington’s extended suite "Black, Brown and Beige," reflecting African American history and experience.
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B.
Job Song
Job Song is a work associated with the artist Consequence, likely recognized as one of his notable musical releases.
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C.
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
"I’ve Been Working on the Railroad" is a traditional American folk song and children’s tune that humorously depicts the daily life and labor of railroad workers.
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D.
Whistle While You Work
"Whistle While You Work" is a cheerful, iconic song from Disney’s animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, sung by Snow White as she tidies the dwarfs’ cottage.
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E.
The Singing Brakeman
The Singing Brakeman was the nickname of Jimmie Rodgers, a pioneering early country music star famed for his distinctive yodeling and railroad-themed songs.
- 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: Work Song Target entity description: "Work Song" is a hard bop jazz standard composed by cornetist Nat Adderley, famously recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet and widely regarded as one of the genre’s most enduring tunes.
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A.
Work Song
"Work Song" is a jazz composition featured within Duke Ellington’s extended suite "Black, Brown and Beige," reflecting African American history and experience.
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B.
Job Song
Job Song is a work associated with the artist Consequence, likely recognized as one of his notable musical releases.
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C.
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
"I’ve Been Working on the Railroad" is a traditional American folk song and children’s tune that humorously depicts the daily life and labor of railroad workers.
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D.
Whistle While You Work
"Whistle While You Work" is a cheerful, iconic song from Disney’s animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, sung by Snow White as she tidies the dwarfs’ cottage.
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E.
The Singing Brakeman
The Singing Brakeman was the nickname of Jimmie Rodgers, a pioneering early country music star famed for his distinctive yodeling and railroad-themed songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composition
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jazz standard ⓘ |
| associatedPerformer |
Art Blakey
NERFINISHED
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Bobby Timmons NERFINISHED ⓘ Cannonball Adderley NERFINISHED ⓘ Cannonball Adderley Quintet NERFINISHED ⓘ Cannonball Adderley Sextet NERFINISHED ⓘ Cedar Walton NERFINISHED ⓘ Christian McBride NERFINISHED ⓘ George Shearing NERFINISHED ⓘ Gregory Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ Houston Person NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Burrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Lou Rawls NERFINISHED ⓘ Nat Adderley NERFINISHED ⓘ Nina Simone NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Brown Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Chambers NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jazz Crusaders NERFINISHED ⓘ Wes Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Nat Adderley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPopularizedBy | Cannonball Adderley Quintet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form |
32-bar form
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AABA ⓘ |
| genre | hard bop ⓘ |
| hasLyricsTheme | incarceration and prison labor (in vocal versions) ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | soul jazz ⓘ |
| isStandardIn |
hard bop repertoire
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modern jazz repertoire ⓘ |
| key | F minor ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Oscar Brown Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
frequent use in jam sessions
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minor-key blues-inflected melody ⓘ prominent riff-based bass line ⓘ widely included in jazz fake books ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedBy | Riverside Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedOn | Work Song (Nat Adderley album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Cannonball Adderley Quintet
NERFINISHED
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Christian McBride NERFINISHED ⓘ George Shearing NERFINISHED ⓘ Gregory Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ Houston Person NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Burrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Lou Rawls NERFINISHED ⓘ Nat Adderley NERFINISHED ⓘ Nina Simone NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Brown Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jazz Crusaders NERFINISHED ⓘ Wes Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tempo | medium-up ⓘ |
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: Work Song Description of subject: "Work Song" is a hard bop jazz standard composed by cornetist Nat Adderley, famously recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet and widely regarded as one of the genre’s most enduring tunes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.