Makeba! (1963 album)
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Makeba! is a 1963 studio album by South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba that showcases her distinctive blend of African folk music and jazz-influenced pop for an international audience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Makeba! (1963 album) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6683866 — 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: Makeba! (1963 album) Context triple: [Miriam Makeba, notableAlbum, Makeba! (1963 album)]
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A.
Nina Simone Sings the Blues
"Nina Simone Sings the Blues" is a 1967 studio album that showcases Nina Simone’s powerful blend of blues, jazz, and soul, marked by emotionally intense vocals and socially conscious themes.
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B.
Little Bit O' Soul
"Little Bit O' Soul" is a garage rock song, originally a 1960s hit, that appears on the compilation album *Subterranean Jungle*.
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C.
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a 1960s jug band from Palo Alto, California, best known as a precursor to the Grateful Dead and for featuring several of its future members.
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D.
Lady Soul
Lady Soul is a 1968 studio album by Aretha Franklin, widely regarded as one of her greatest works and a landmark soul record.
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E.
A Black Man’s Soul
A Black Man’s Soul is a 1969 instrumental funk and soul album by musician and bandleader Ike Turner, showcasing his gritty, groove-driven arrangements.
- 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: Makeba! (1963 album) Target entity description: Makeba! is a 1963 studio album by South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba that showcases her distinctive blend of African folk music and jazz-influenced pop for an international audience.
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A.
Nina Simone Sings the Blues
"Nina Simone Sings the Blues" is a 1967 studio album that showcases Nina Simone’s powerful blend of blues, jazz, and soul, marked by emotionally intense vocals and socially conscious themes.
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B.
Little Bit O' Soul
"Little Bit O' Soul" is a garage rock song, originally a 1960s hit, that appears on the compilation album *Subterranean Jungle*.
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C.
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a 1960s jug band from Palo Alto, California, best known as a precursor to the Grateful Dead and for featuring several of its future members.
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D.
Lady Soul
Lady Soul is a 1968 studio album by Aretha Franklin, widely regarded as one of her greatest works and a landmark soul record.
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E.
A Black Man’s Soul
A Black Man’s Soul is a 1969 instrumental funk and soul album by musician and bandleader Ike Turner, showcasing his gritty, groove-driven arrangements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Miriam Makeba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | anti-apartheid movement ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | RCA Victor LPM-2748 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyNextTitle | The World of Miriam Makeba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyNextYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| chronologyPreviousTitle | The Many Voices of Miriam Makeba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyPreviousYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtDepicts | portrait of Miriam Makeba ⓘ |
| featuresMusicalStyle |
African folk influences
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jazz-influenced pop ⓘ |
| format | vinyl LP ⓘ |
| genre |
African folk music
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ pop ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| hasTrack |
Iphi Ndoyakhona
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iya Guduza NERFINISHED ⓘ Iya Guduza (reprise) ⓘ Khawuyani-Khanyange NERFINISHED ⓘ Kutheni Sithandwa NERFINISHED ⓘ Ngiyaqonda NERFINISHED ⓘ Nongqongqo NERFINISHED ⓘ One More Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ Saduva NERFINISHED ⓘ Shh Shh Kaleni NERFINISHED ⓘ Uyaz’ Gabisa ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | international audience ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Xhosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Zulu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainPerformerNationality | South African ⓘ |
| notableFor | showcasing Miriam Makeba’s blend of African folk and jazz-pop ⓘ |
| performer | Miriam Makeba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Hugo Montenegro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1963 ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1963 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | RCA Victor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Makeba! (1963 album) Description of subject: Makeba! is a 1963 studio album by South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba that showcases her distinctive blend of African folk music and jazz-influenced pop for an international audience.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.