My Mammy
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"My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1263252 — 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: My Mammy Context triple: [The Jazz Singer (1927 film), featuresSong, My Mammy]
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A.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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B.
Not Without Laughter
Not Without Laughter is Langston Hughes’s semi-autobiographical 1930 novel that portrays African American life and coming-of-age in a Midwestern Kansas town during the early 20th century.
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C.
Mama’s Family
Mama’s Family is an American sitcom spun off from a popular sketch on The Carol Burnett Show, centered on the loud, sharp-tongued matriarch Thelma “Mama” Harper and her dysfunctional Southern family.
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D.
Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music is a 1946 Walt Disney animated musical anthology film composed of ten segments set to popular and classical music.
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E.
Baby Doll
Baby Doll is a 1956 American black comedy–drama film, adapted from Tennessee Williams’s work, noted for its controversial sexual themes and Southern Gothic style.
- 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: My Mammy Target entity description: "My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
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A.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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B.
Not Without Laughter
Not Without Laughter is Langston Hughes’s semi-autobiographical 1930 novel that portrays African American life and coming-of-age in a Midwestern Kansas town during the early 20th century.
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C.
Mama’s Family
Mama’s Family is an American sitcom spun off from a popular sketch on The Carol Burnett Show, centered on the loud, sharp-tongued matriarch Thelma “Mama” Harper and her dysfunctional Southern family.
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D.
Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music is a 1946 Walt Disney animated musical anthology film composed of ten segments set to popular and classical music.
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E.
Baby Doll
Baby Doll is a 1956 American black comedy–drama film, adapted from Tennessee Williams’s work, noted for its controversial sexual themes and Southern Gothic style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
popular song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Al Jolson
ⓘ
American film ⓘ vaudeville ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalOrigin | American ⓘ |
| genre |
Tin Pan Alley song
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | American popular culture ⓘ |
| hasEra | early 1900s ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later performances of Al Jolson-style material ⓘ |
| hasSubject | motherhood ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
maternal affection
ⓘ
nostalgia ⓘ |
| hasTitle | My Mammy ⓘ |
| historicalContext | early 20th-century American entertainment ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | music ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being closely associated with Al Jolson
ⓘ
use in classic vaudeville acts ⓘ use in early American films ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Al Jolson ⓘ |
| partOf |
American songbook
ⓘ
linked to:
American popular music standards repertoire
|
| performanceContext |
film performances
ⓘ
vaudeville performances ⓘ |
| performanceTradition |
screen performance
ⓘ
stage performance ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| usedIn | classic American film performances ⓘ |
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: My Mammy Description of subject: "My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.