Oh! Susanna
E563142
"Oh! Susanna" is a famous 19th-century American minstrel song by Stephen Foster that became one of the best-known songs in American folk and popular music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oh! Susanna canonical | 1 |
| Oh, Susannah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6042899 — 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: Oh! Susanna Context triple: [Stephen Foster, notableWork, Oh! Susanna]
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A.
Johnny Belinda
"Johnny Belinda" is a 1948 drama film best known for Jane Wyman’s Oscar-winning performance as a deaf-mute woman living in a small Nova Scotia fishing village.
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B.
Nelly Dean
Nelly Dean is the housekeeper whose detailed recollections form the central narrative framework of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights."
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C.
Old Blue
"Old Blue" is a traditional folk song popularized by American singer Joan Baez on her album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2."
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D.
Minstrel Boy
Minstrel Boy is a component or figure within the artwork "Self Portrait," likely representing a youthful musician or symbolic character included in the composition.
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E.
Lillete
Lillete is an alcoholic beverage brand that forms part of Pernod Ricard’s global spirits and drinks portfolio.
- 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: Oh! Susanna Target entity description: "Oh! Susanna" is a famous 19th-century American minstrel song by Stephen Foster that became one of the best-known songs in American folk and popular music.
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A.
Johnny Belinda
"Johnny Belinda" is a 1948 drama film best known for Jane Wyman’s Oscar-winning performance as a deaf-mute woman living in a small Nova Scotia fishing village.
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B.
Nelly Dean
Nelly Dean is the housekeeper whose detailed recollections form the central narrative framework of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights."
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C.
Old Blue
"Old Blue" is a traditional folk song popularized by American singer Joan Baez on her album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2."
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D.
Minstrel Boy
Minstrel Boy is a component or figure within the artwork "Self Portrait," likely representing a youthful musician or symbolic character included in the composition.
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E.
Lillete
Lillete is an alcoholic beverage brand that forms part of Pernod Ricard’s global spirits and drinks portfolio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Oh Susanna
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oh! Susannah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | California Gold Rush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfOrigin | 19th century ⓘ |
| composer | Stephen Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPerformanceYear | 1847 ⓘ |
| genre |
American folk music
ⓘ
minstrel music ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| hasChorus | Yes ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | unofficial American folk anthem ⓘ |
| hasForm | verse-chorus form ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | early commercial American popular song ⓘ |
| hasMeter | 4/4 time ⓘ |
| hasRecording | multiple 20th-century commercial recordings ⓘ |
| includedIn | American folk song repertoire ⓘ |
| influenced | later American popular music ⓘ |
| inPublicDomain | Yes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Stephen Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingLyric | I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee ⓘ |
| partOf | Stephen Foster song catalog ⓘ |
| performanceContext | blackface minstrel shows ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1848 ⓘ |
| sheetMusicPublishedIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
cultural criticism
ⓘ
musicological studies ⓘ |
| theme |
American frontier
ⓘ
travel to Louisiana ⓘ |
| usedAs | American folk standard ⓘ |
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: Oh! Susanna Description of subject: "Oh! Susanna" is a famous 19th-century American minstrel song by Stephen Foster that became one of the best-known songs in American folk and popular music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Oh, Susannah