Feed the Birds
E118038
"Feed the Birds" is a poignant ballad from Disney’s 1964 film Mary Poppins, renowned for its gentle melody and emotional depth.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Feed the Birds canonical | 8 |
| Feed the Birds is sung over scenes of her feeding pigeons | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1005891 — 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: Feed the Birds Context triple: [Sherman Brothers, notableWork, Feed the Birds]
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A.
The Early Bird
The Early Bird is a 1965 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a hapless milkman battling a ruthless dairy conglomerate.
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B.
The Bluebird Is at Home
The Bluebird Is at Home is a memoir by American philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor, reflecting on her life, experiences, and observations of high society.
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C.
Giant Sparrow
Giant Sparrow is an independent video game development studio best known for creating the narrative-driven adventure game "What Remains of Edith Finch."
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D.
Song to a Seagull
Song to a Seagull is the 1968 debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, showcasing her early folk sound and poetic lyricism.
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E.
All About Birds
All About Birds is an online birding resource that provides identification guides, photos, sounds, and expert information on bird species, created and maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
- 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: Feed the Birds Target entity description: "Feed the Birds" is a poignant ballad from Disney’s 1964 film Mary Poppins, renowned for its gentle melody and emotional depth.
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A.
The Early Bird
The Early Bird is a 1965 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as a hapless milkman battling a ruthless dairy conglomerate.
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B.
The Bluebird Is at Home
The Bluebird Is at Home is a memoir by American philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor, reflecting on her life, experiences, and observations of high society.
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C.
Giant Sparrow
Giant Sparrow is an independent video game development studio best known for creating the narrative-driven adventure game "What Remains of Edith Finch."
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D.
Song to a Seagull
Song to a Seagull is the 1968 debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, showcasing her early folk sound and poetic lyricism.
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E.
All About Birds
All About Birds is an online birding resource that provides identification guides, photos, sounds, and expert information on bird species, created and maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Disney song
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ballad ⓘ film song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| appearsInScene | nighttime scene overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral ⓘ |
| associatedFranchise | Mary Poppins franchise ⓘ |
| associatedPerson | Walt Disney ⓘ |
| associatedWithAwardWinningFilm |
Mary Poppins (Academy Award-winning film)
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linked to:
Mary Poppins
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| cataloguedIn | Disney song catalog ⓘ |
| composer |
Richard M. Sherman
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Robert B. Sherman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredCharacter | Mary Poppins ⓘ |
| filmStudio | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| genre |
ballad
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film score ⓘ show tune ⓘ |
| hasKey |
F major (commonly cited key)
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linked to:
F major
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| hasMusicalStyle |
orchestral
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waltz-like tempo ⓘ |
| hasType | diegetic song ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Mary Poppins stage musical (as adapted song)
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linked to:
Mary Poppins
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Richard M. Sherman
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Robert B. Sherman ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | an old woman who sells breadcrumbs to feed the birds ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Walt Disney’s favorite songs
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emotional depth ⓘ gentle melody ⓘ |
| orchestrator | Irwin Kostal ⓘ |
| originalWork |
Mary Poppins (1964 film)
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linked to:
Mary Poppins
|
| partOf |
Mary Poppins (1964 film)
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linked to:
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (original motion picture soundtrack) ⓘ |
| performerInFilm | Julie Andrews ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Walt Disney Music Company
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linked to:
Disney Music Group
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| recordingYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| setting |
St Paul’s Cathedral, London
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linked to:
St Paul's Cathedral
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| tempoMarking | slow ⓘ |
| theme |
charity
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compassion ⓘ kindness to the poor ⓘ |
| usesMotif | recurrent melodic theme in Mary Poppins score ⓘ |
| vocalType | ballad ⓘ |
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: Feed the Birds Description of subject: "Feed the Birds" is a poignant ballad from Disney’s 1964 film Mary Poppins, renowned for its gentle melody and emotional depth.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bird Woman in Mary Poppins (1964 film)
Bird Woman (Mary Poppins, 1964 film)
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songPerformanceContext
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Feed the Birds is sung over scenes of her feeding pigeons
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subject linked to:
Bird Woman in Mary Poppins (1964 film)
linked to: Feed the Birds
subject linked to:
Disney film Mary Poppins
subject linked to:
stage musical Mary Poppins