Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat
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"Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" is a show-stopping gospel-style musical number from the 1950 Broadway musical *Guys and Dolls*, renowned for its lively rhythm and comic storytelling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat canonical | 1 |
| There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10568359 — 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: Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat Context triple: [Frank Loesser, notableWork, Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat]
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A.
Rock the Boat
"Rock the Boat" is a smooth, mid-tempo R&B song by Aaliyah, widely recognized as one of her signature hits and remembered as her final music video before her death.
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B.
If You Can’t Rock Me
"If You Can’t Rock Me" is a rock and roll song recorded by Ricky Nelson and featured on his 1958 self-titled album.
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C.
Ship of Fools
"Ship of Fools" is a reflective, slow-tempo song by the Grateful Dead known for its soulful vocals and themes of regret and missed chances.
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D.
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools is a satirical religious painting by Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a chaotic boat of revelers to critique human folly and moral corruption.
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E.
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools is a 1965 ensemble drama film set aboard a transatlantic ocean liner in the 1930s, exploring themes of prejudice and human folly as its diverse passengers’ lives intersect.
- 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: Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat Target entity description: "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" is a show-stopping gospel-style musical number from the 1950 Broadway musical *Guys and Dolls*, renowned for its lively rhythm and comic storytelling.
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A.
Rock the Boat
"Rock the Boat" is a smooth, mid-tempo R&B song by Aaliyah, widely recognized as one of her signature hits and remembered as her final music video before her death.
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B.
If You Can’t Rock Me
"If You Can’t Rock Me" is a rock and roll song recorded by Ricky Nelson and featured on his 1958 self-titled album.
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C.
Ship of Fools
"Ship of Fools" is a reflective, slow-tempo song by the Grateful Dead known for its soulful vocals and themes of regret and missed chances.
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D.
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools is a satirical religious painting by Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a chaotic boat of revelers to critique human folly and moral corruption.
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E.
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools is a 1965 ensemble drama film set aboard a transatlantic ocean liner in the 1930s, exploring themes of prejudice and human folly as its diverse passengers’ lives intersect.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | Golden Age of Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWork | Guys and Dolls (1955 film adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Frank Loesser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalStatus | standard of the musical theatre repertoire ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
brings the mission meeting to life
ⓘ
provides comic relief ⓘ showcases the character Nicely-Nicely Johnson ⓘ |
| ensembleNumber | yes ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1950 ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceMedium | Broadway stage ⓘ |
| fromMusical | Guys and Dolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Broadway musical song
ⓘ
gospel-style show tune ⓘ |
| hasChoralSections | yes ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersions | yes ⓘ |
| hasRefrain | yes ⓘ |
| hasTitleText | Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
comic depiction of sin and redemption
ⓘ
vision of a boat to heaven ⓘ |
| lyricist | Frank Loesser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalForm | comic gospel number ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person testimony ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic storytelling
ⓘ
lively rhythm ⓘ show-stopping quality ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayProductionTheatre | 46th Street Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalProduction | 1950 Broadway production of Guys and Dolls ⓘ |
| partOf | Guys and Dolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedByCharacter | Nicely-Nicely Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingInMusical | mission meeting ⓘ |
| style |
gospel-influenced
ⓘ
up-tempo ensemble number ⓘ |
| tempo | fast ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th-century American musical theatre ⓘ |
| typicalPerformanceContext |
Broadway revivals
ⓘ
cabaret performances ⓘ musical theatre concerts ⓘ |
| usesCallAndResponse | yes ⓘ |
| workBy | Frank Loesser 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: Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat Description of subject: "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" is a show-stopping gospel-style musical number from the 1950 Broadway musical *Guys and Dolls*, renowned for its lively rhythm and comic storytelling.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York