About a Quarter to Nine
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"About a Quarter to Nine" is a popular song from the 1930s American big band and swing era, widely performed and recorded by dance orchestras of the time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| About a Quarter to Nine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10295598 — 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: About a Quarter to Nine Context triple: [Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra, notableSong, About a Quarter to Nine]
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A.
Quarter to Three
"Quarter to Three" is a classic rock and roll song, originally made famous by Gary U.S. Bonds and widely covered in energetic live performances, including by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
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B.
Seven O’Clock
Seven O’Clock is a track by Pearl Jam featured on their 2020 studio album "Gigaton."
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C.
The Fifty-Minute Hour
The Fifty-Minute Hour is a classic collection of real-life psychoanalytic case studies by psychiatrist Robert Lindner, notable for its vivid, narrative-style exploration of patients’ inner lives and therapeutic processes.
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D.
At the Noon Hour
"At the Noon Hour" is a figurative painting by American artist Isabel Bishop, known for its realistic depiction of everyday urban life and working women in mid-20th-century New York City.
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E.
When the Nines Roll Over
"When the Nines Roll Over" is a collection of contemporary short stories by David Benioff that explores themes of love, ambition, and disillusionment in modern urban life.
- 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: About a Quarter to Nine Target entity description: "About a Quarter to Nine" is a popular song from the 1930s American big band and swing era, widely performed and recorded by dance orchestras of the time.
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A.
Quarter to Three
"Quarter to Three" is a classic rock and roll song, originally made famous by Gary U.S. Bonds and widely covered in energetic live performances, including by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
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B.
Seven O’Clock
Seven O’Clock is a track by Pearl Jam featured on their 2020 studio album "Gigaton."
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C.
The Fifty-Minute Hour
The Fifty-Minute Hour is a classic collection of real-life psychoanalytic case studies by psychiatrist Robert Lindner, notable for its vivid, narrative-style exploration of patients’ inner lives and therapeutic processes.
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D.
At the Noon Hour
"At the Noon Hour" is a figurative painting by American artist Isabel Bishop, known for its realistic depiction of everyday urban life and working women in mid-20th-century New York City.
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E.
When the Nines Roll Over
"When the Nines Roll Over" is a collection of contemporary short stories by David Benioff that explores themes of love, ambition, and disillusionment in modern urban life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWithSongwritersTeam | Dubin and Warren GENERATED ⓘ |
| composer | Harry Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decadeOfPopularity |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ |
| era |
big band era
ⓘ
swing era ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceInFilm | Go into Your Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
big band
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ swing ⓘ |
| hasApproximateYearOfComposition | 1934 ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | popular song form ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Al Jolson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bing Crosby NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Lombardo NERFINISHED ⓘ Judy Garland NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Tormé NERFINISHED ⓘ Ozzie Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecordingFormat | shellac disc GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasStyleCharacteristic |
danceable rhythm
ⓘ
swing feel ⓘ |
| hasTempo | medium tempo ⓘ |
| hasTheme | romantic love ⓘ |
| hasTitlePhraseReferringTo | time of day ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Al Jolson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isStandardIn |
big band repertoire
ⓘ
dance orchestra repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Al Dubin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Al Dubin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Harry Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMedium | film musical ⓘ |
| partOf | American songbook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedInFilmBy |
Al Jolson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ruby Keeler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| recordingEra | 78 rpm era ⓘ |
| usedAs |
dance band standard
ⓘ
swing standard ⓘ |
| writtenFor | Warner Bros. film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: About a Quarter to Nine Description of subject: "About a Quarter to Nine" is a popular song from the 1930s American big band and swing era, widely performed and recorded by dance orchestras of the time.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.