Day-O

E757421
musical phrase song refrain

"Day-O" is the instantly recognizable call-and-response refrain from the traditional Jamaican mento song popularized globally by Harry Belafonte as "The Banana Boat Song."

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Day-O canonical 3

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf musical phrase ⓘ
song refrain ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) refrain ⓘ
associatedWithArtist Harry Belafonte NERFINISHED ⓘ
featuredIn Caribbean folk music tradition ⓘ
firstPopularRecordingBy Harry Belafonte NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre calypso ⓘ
mento ⓘ
hasCulturalOrigin Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguage English ⓘ
hasMusicalFunction audience participation cue ⓘ
chorus hook ⓘ
hasNotability instantly recognizable refrain ⓘ
influenced later calypso-inspired pop songs ⓘ
isCallAndResponse true ⓘ
isRefrainOf traditional Jamaican mento song ⓘ
lyricText Day-O NERFINISHED ⓘ
Day-O, Day-O ⓘ
Daylight come and me wan' go home ⓘ
partOf The Banana Boat Song NERFINISHED ⓘ
performancePractice sung antiphonally between leader and chorus ⓘ
popularizedBy Harry Belafonte NERFINISHED ⓘ
rhythmicStyle syncopated Caribbean rhythm ⓘ
theme banana dock workers ⓘ
night shift labor ⓘ
waiting for daylight NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedIn The Banana Boat Song (Harry Belafonte recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ
live performances by Harry Belafonte ⓘ
vocalStyle call by soloist ⓘ
response by chorus ⓘ

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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: Day-O
Description of subject: "Day-O" is the instantly recognizable call-and-response refrain from the traditional Jamaican mento song popularized globally by Harry Belafonte as "The Banana Boat Song."

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Banana Boat Song (Day-O) → hasRefrain → Day-O ⓘ
Banana Boat Song (Day-O) → hasCallLine → Day-O ⓘ
Banana Boat Song (Day-O) → hasAlternateTitle → Day-O ⓘ