“Freedom Is in the Trying”
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“Freedom Is in the Trying” is a movement from Wynton Marsalis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning jazz oratorio *Blood on the Fields*, which explores themes of slavery, struggle, and liberation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| “Freedom Is in the Trying” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11116272 — 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: “Freedom Is in the Trying” Context triple: [Blood on the Fields, hasPart, “Freedom Is in the Trying”]
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A.
I Speak of Freedom
"I Speak of Freedom" is a collection of speeches and writings by Ghanaian independence leader Kwame Nkrumah, outlining his vision for African liberation and pan-African unity.
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B.
Ode to Freedom
"Ode to Freedom" is a song by ABBA from their 2021 comeback album "Voyage," noted for its reflective, hymn-like tone and themes of peace and unity.
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C.
Hymn to Freedom
"Hymn to Freedom" is a jazz composition by Oscar Peterson that became an enduring civil rights anthem celebrated for its soulful, gospel-infused melody and message of equality.
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D.
A Simple Freedom
A Simple Freedom is a memoir by South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada that reflects on his life, political struggle, and years of imprisonment under apartheid.
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E.
Freedom’s Right
Freedom’s Right is a major work of social and political philosophy by Axel Honneth that reconstructs the concept of freedom within modern democratic societies through the lens of critical theory.
- 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: “Freedom Is in the Trying” Target entity description: “Freedom Is in the Trying” is a movement from Wynton Marsalis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning jazz oratorio *Blood on the Fields*, which explores themes of slavery, struggle, and liberation.
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A.
I Speak of Freedom
"I Speak of Freedom" is a collection of speeches and writings by Ghanaian independence leader Kwame Nkrumah, outlining his vision for African liberation and pan-African unity.
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B.
Ode to Freedom
"Ode to Freedom" is a song by ABBA from their 2021 comeback album "Voyage," noted for its reflective, hymn-like tone and themes of peace and unity.
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C.
Hymn to Freedom
"Hymn to Freedom" is a jazz composition by Oscar Peterson that became an enduring civil rights anthem celebrated for its soulful, gospel-infused melody and message of equality.
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D.
A Simple Freedom
A Simple Freedom is a memoir by South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada that reflects on his life, political struggle, and years of imprisonment under apartheid.
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E.
Freedom’s Right
Freedom’s Right is a major work of social and political philosophy by Axel Honneth that reconstructs the concept of freedom within modern democratic societies through the lens of critical theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
movement
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musical work ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Pulitzer Prize–winning oratorio Blood on the Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWorkAward | Pulitzer Prize for Music (for Blood on the Fields) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Wynton Marsalis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Wynton Marsalis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasForm |
ensemble piece
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vocal jazz ⓘ |
| intendedSetting |
album recording
ⓘ
live performance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalContent | reflects the pursuit of freedom through effort and perseverance ⓘ |
| medium | music ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | contributes to the dramatic arc of Blood on the Fields ⓘ |
| partOf | Blood on the Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | movements of Blood on the Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
concert performance
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recording ⓘ |
| performer | Wynton Marsalis Septet (original production context) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
African American experience
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quest for human dignity ⓘ |
| theme |
freedom
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hope ⓘ liberation ⓘ resilience ⓘ slavery ⓘ struggle ⓘ |
| workType | oratorio movement ⓘ |
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: “Freedom Is in the Trying” Description of subject: “Freedom Is in the Trying” is a movement from Wynton Marsalis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning jazz oratorio *Blood on the Fields*, which explores themes of slavery, struggle, and liberation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.