Hound Dog
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"Hound Dog" is a landmark 1956 rock and roll song, most famously performed by Elvis Presley, that became one of his signature hits and a defining record of early rock music.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hound Dog canonical | 39 |
| "Hound Dog" | 2 |
| “Hound Dog” | 2 |
| "Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thornton | 1 |
| Elvis Presley song "Hound Dog" | 1 |
| Hound Dog (alternate version) | 1 |
| Hound Dog (alternate) | 1 |
| Hound Dog / Don’t Be Cruel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1230238 — 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: Hound Dog Context triple: [Elvis Presley, notableWork, Hound Dog]
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A.
Heartbreak Hotel
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a hit R&B single by Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price, known for its soulful vocals and themes of betrayal and emotional pain.
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B.
Heartbreak Hotel
Heartbreak Hotel is a landmark 1956 rock and roll song by Elvis Presley that became his first million-selling single and a defining hit of his early career.
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C.
Honky Tonk Man
"Honky Tonk Man" is a 1982 country music–themed film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, in which Dwight Yoakam made one of his early notable screen appearances.
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D.
Love Me Tender
Love Me Tender is a classic 1956 ballad and Elvis Presley’s first film title song, renowned as one of his most iconic and enduring recordings.
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E.
Folsom Prison Blues
Folsom Prison Blues is a classic country song by Johnny Cash, famous for its gritty prison narrative and iconic line about shooting a man in Reno "just to watch him die."
- 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: Hound Dog Target entity description: "Hound Dog" is a landmark 1956 rock and roll song, most famously performed by Elvis Presley, that became one of his signature hits and a defining record of early rock music.
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A.
Heartbreak Hotel
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a hit R&B single by Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price, known for its soulful vocals and themes of betrayal and emotional pain.
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B.
Heartbreak Hotel
Heartbreak Hotel is a landmark 1956 rock and roll song by Elvis Presley that became his first million-selling single and a defining hit of his early career.
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C.
Honky Tonk Man
"Honky Tonk Man" is a 1982 country music–themed film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, in which Dwight Yoakam made one of his early notable screen appearances.
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D.
Love Me Tender
Love Me Tender is a classic 1956 ballad and Elvis Presley’s first film title song, renowned as one of his most iconic and enduring recordings.
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E.
Folsom Prison Blues
Folsom Prison Blues is a classic country song by Johnny Cash, famous for its gritty prison narrative and iconic line about shooting a man in Reno "just to watch him die."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rock and roll song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Elvis Presley’s Las Vegas-style stage persona
ⓘ
early rock and roll era ⓘ |
| BigMamaThorntonLabel | Peacock Records ⓘ |
| BigMamaThorntonProducer | Johnny Otis ⓘ |
| BigMamaThorntonVersionRecordedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | major commercial hit for Elvis Presley ⓘ |
| composer |
Jerry Leiber
ⓘ
linked to:
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Mike Stoller ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coveredBy | many artists ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | helped popularize rock and roll worldwide ⓘ |
| ElvisPresleyLabel | RCA Victor ⓘ |
| ElvisPresleyProducer | Steve Sholes ⓘ |
| ElvisPresleyRecordingReleaseYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| ElvisPresleySingleA-SideWith |
Don’t Be Cruel
ⓘ
linked to:
Don't Be Cruel (song)
|
| ElvisPresleyVersionBackedBy |
bassist Bill Black
ⓘ
drummer D.J. Fontana ⓘ his band with guitarist Scotty Moore ⓘ |
| ElvisPresleyVersionRecordedIn |
RCA Studio, New York City
ⓘ
linked to:
RCA Victor Studio, New York City
|
| era | 1950s popular music ⓘ |
| form | 12-bar blues-based structure ⓘ |
| genre | rock and roll ⓘ |
| hasFamousPerformance | Elvis Presley’s 1956 TV appearances ⓘ |
| hasIconicLyric | You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
rock and roll
ⓘ
rockabilly ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Jerry Leiber
ⓘ
linked to:
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Mike Stoller ⓘ |
| mostFamousPerformer | Elvis Presley ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a defining record of early rock and roll
ⓘ
being one of Elvis Presley’s signature hits ⓘ influencing rock and roll music ⓘ |
| originalArtist | Big Mama Thornton ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | Big Mama Thornton ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| performanceStyle |
energetic vocal delivery
ⓘ
rhythm-and-blues-influenced rock and roll ⓘ |
| rankedOn | lists of greatest rock and roll songs ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Big Mama Thornton
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Elvis Presley ⓘ Freddie Bell and the Bellboys ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Elvis Presley ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | confronting an unfaithful or unreliable lover ⓘ |
| tempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
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: Hound Dog Description of subject: "Hound Dog" is a landmark 1956 rock and roll song, most famously performed by Elvis Presley, that became one of his signature hits and a defining record of early rock music.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hound Dog II airplane
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Hound Dog II airplane
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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite concert
subject linked to:
Don't Be Cruel (song)
subject linked to:
Don't Be Cruel (song)
subject linked to:
The King
linked to: Hound Dog
linked to: Hound Dog
linked to: Hound Dog
linked to: Hound Dog
linked to: Hound Dog
linked to: Hound Dog
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Willie Mae
subject linked to:
Willie Mae