Calypso (1956 album)
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Calypso (1956 album) is a landmark 1956 Harry Belafonte record that popularized calypso music internationally and became one of the first LPs to sell over a million copies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Calypso (1956 album) canonical | 1 |
| Calypso (Harry Belafonte album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8785145 — 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: Calypso (1956 album) Context triple: [King of Calypso, associatedWithWork, Calypso (1956 album)]
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A.
Calypso (TV series and films)
Calypso is a series of documentary films and television programs chronicling Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s pioneering underwater explorations aboard his research vessel, the RV Calypso.
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B.
King of Calypso
King of Calypso is the celebrated title given to Harry Belafonte, the pioneering American singer and entertainer who popularized calypso music worldwide in the 1950s.
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C.
Exotica
Exotica is a 1994 Canadian drama film by Atom Egoyan that intricately weaves themes of loss, obsession, and memory around the lives connected to a mysterious Toronto strip club.
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D.
Islands in the Stream
Islands in the Stream is a posthumously published novel by Ernest Hemingway that follows the life of an American artist across three distinct phases set in the Caribbean and World War II.
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E.
Nuages
"Nuages" is one of Django Reinhardt's most famous jazz compositions, a lyrical gypsy jazz standard celebrated for its haunting melody and sophisticated harmonies.
- 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: Calypso (1956 album) Target entity description: Calypso (1956 album) is a landmark 1956 Harry Belafonte record that popularized calypso music internationally and became one of the first LPs to sell over a million copies.
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A.
Calypso (TV series and films)
Calypso is a series of documentary films and television programs chronicling Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s pioneering underwater explorations aboard his research vessel, the RV Calypso.
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B.
King of Calypso
King of Calypso is the celebrated title given to Harry Belafonte, the pioneering American singer and entertainer who popularized calypso music worldwide in the 1950s.
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C.
Exotica
Exotica is a 1994 Canadian drama film by Atom Egoyan that intricately weaves themes of loss, obsession, and memory around the lives connected to a mysterious Toronto strip club.
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D.
Islands in the Stream
Islands in the Stream is a posthumously published novel by Ernest Hemingway that follows the life of an American artist across three distinct phases set in the Caribbean and World War II.
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E.
Nuages
"Nuages" is one of Django Reinhardt's most famous jazz compositions, a lyrical gypsy jazz standard celebrated for its haunting melody and sophisticated harmonies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Calypso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Harry Belafonte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | LPM-1248 ⓘ |
| chartAchievement |
reached number one on the Billboard album chart
ⓘ
spent multiple weeks at number one on the Billboard album chart ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Harry Belafonte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| decade | 1950s ⓘ |
| distributor | RCA Victor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | An Evening with Belafonte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | mono ⓘ |
| genre |
calypso
ⓘ
folk ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
global popularity of Caribbean music
ⓘ
subsequent calypso and world music recordings ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Brown Skin Girl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Come Back Liza NERFINISHED ⓘ Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) NERFINISHED ⓘ Dolly Dawn NERFINISHED ⓘ Hosanna NERFINISHED ⓘ I Do Adore Her NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamaica Farewell NERFINISHED ⓘ Man Smart (Woman Smarter) NERFINISHED ⓘ Star-O NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jack-Ass Song NERFINISHED ⓘ Will His Love Be Like His Rum? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Caribbean life
ⓘ
love and relationships ⓘ work songs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainPerformerHeritage |
Jamaican
ⓘ
Martinican ⓘ |
| mainPerformerNationality | American ⓘ |
| medium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being among the first LPs to sell over one million copies
ⓘ
popularizing calypso music internationally ⓘ |
| originalMedium | 12-inch LP record ⓘ |
| performer | Harry Belafonte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Belafonte (1955 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Ed Welker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henri René NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | RCA Victor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1956 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 31 minutes ⓘ |
| yearOfCommercialSuccess | 1957 ⓘ |
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: Calypso (1956 album) Description of subject: Calypso (1956 album) is a landmark 1956 Harry Belafonte record that popularized calypso music internationally and became one of the first LPs to sell over a million copies.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Calypso (Harry Belafonte album)