The Boston Rag
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"The Boston Rag" is a rock song by Steely Dan, featured on their 1973 album *Countdown to Ecstasy*, known for its intricate musicianship and cryptic, narrative lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Boston Rag canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21441727 — 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: The Boston Rag Context triple: [Countdown to Ecstasy, hasTrack, The Boston Rag]
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A.
Maple Leaf Rag
"Maple Leaf Rag" is a landmark ragtime piano composition by Scott Joplin, renowned for its syncopated rhythms and major influence on early American popular music.
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B.
Twelfth Street Rag
"Twelfth Street Rag" is a classic early jazz and ragtime composition that became a popular standard, widely recorded and performed by many artists across the 20th century.
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C.
Union Rags
Union Rags is a Grade 1-winning American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for capturing the 2012 Belmont Stakes before retiring to a successful stud career.
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D.
Tiger Rag
"Tiger Rag" is a virtuosic jazz piano showpiece famously interpreted by Art Tatum, showcasing his extraordinary speed, technique, and improvisational brilliance.
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E.
Swing Ya Rag
"Swing Ya Rag" is a hip hop single by rapper T.I. from his album "Paper Trail," known for its heavy production and club-oriented sound.
- 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: The Boston Rag Target entity description: "The Boston Rag" is a rock song by Steely Dan, featured on their 1973 album *Countdown to Ecstasy*, known for its intricate musicianship and cryptic, narrative lyrics.
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A.
Maple Leaf Rag
"Maple Leaf Rag" is a landmark ragtime piano composition by Scott Joplin, renowned for its syncopated rhythms and major influence on early American popular music.
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B.
Twelfth Street Rag
"Twelfth Street Rag" is a classic early jazz and ragtime composition that became a popular standard, widely recorded and performed by many artists across the 20th century.
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C.
Union Rags
Union Rags is a Grade 1-winning American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for capturing the 2012 Belmont Stakes before retiring to a successful stud career.
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D.
Tiger Rag
"Tiger Rag" is a virtuosic jazz piano showpiece famously interpreted by Art Tatum, showcasing his extraordinary speed, technique, and improvisational brilliance.
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E.
Swing Ya Rag
"Swing Ya Rag" is a hip hop single by rapper T.I. from his album "Paper Trail," known for its heavy production and club-oriented sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.