I Smell a Rat
E1019559
"I Smell a Rat" is a blues song popularized by Big Mama Thornton, showcasing her powerful vocals and gritty, emotionally charged style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I Smell a Rat canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13094709 — 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: I Smell a Rat Context triple: [Big Mama Thornton, notableWork, I Smell a Rat]
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A.
Ratcatcher
Ratcatcher is a 1999 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Lynne Ramsay, known for its bleak yet lyrical portrayal of a boy growing up in 1970s Glasgow.
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B.
The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers is a 2004 dark comedy crime film by the Coen brothers, starring Tom Hanks as the leader of a gang whose heist scheme unravels in the home of an unsuspecting elderly landlady.
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C.
The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film, produced by Ealing Studios, about a gang of criminals whose heist is foiled by their unsuspecting elderly landlady.
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D.
Something’s Afoot
Something’s Afoot is a comedic murder-mystery stage musical that parodies Agatha Christie–style whodunits.
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E.
Catch That Rabbit
"Catch That Rabbit" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores robot behavior and the Three Laws of Robotics through a malfunctioning mining robot on an asteroid.
- 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: I Smell a Rat Target entity description: "I Smell a Rat" is a blues song popularized by Big Mama Thornton, showcasing her powerful vocals and gritty, emotionally charged style.
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A.
Ratcatcher
Ratcatcher is a 1999 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Lynne Ramsay, known for its bleak yet lyrical portrayal of a boy growing up in 1970s Glasgow.
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B.
The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers is a 2004 dark comedy crime film by the Coen brothers, starring Tom Hanks as the leader of a gang whose heist scheme unravels in the home of an unsuspecting elderly landlady.
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C.
The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film, produced by Ealing Studios, about a gang of criminals whose heist is foiled by their unsuspecting elderly landlady.
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D.
Something’s Afoot
Something’s Afoot is a comedic murder-mystery stage musical that parodies Agatha Christie–style whodunits.
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E.
Catch That Rabbit
"Catch That Rabbit" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores robot behavior and the Three Laws of Robotics through a malfunctioning mining robot on an asteroid.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues song
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song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Big Mama Thornton discography ⓘ |
| genre | blues ⓘ |
| hasMood |
emotional
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intense ⓘ |
| hasTitle | I Smell a Rat ⓘ |
| hasVocalist | Big Mama Thornton ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
betrayal
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relationship problems ⓘ suspicion ⓘ |
| musicTradition | African-American blues ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Big Mama Thornton ⓘ |
| performedBy | Big Mama Thornton ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | Big Mama Thornton ⓘ |
| vocalFocus | expressive delivery ⓘ |
| vocalStyle |
emotionally charged
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gritty ⓘ powerful ⓘ |
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: I Smell a Rat Description of subject: "I Smell a Rat" is a blues song popularized by Big Mama Thornton, showcasing her powerful vocals and gritty, emotionally charged style.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.