Puttin' on the Ritz
E188993
"Puttin' on the Ritz" is a popular 1929 American song, best known for its catchy melody and witty lyrics about fashionable high-society life.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Puttin' on the Ritz canonical | 4 |
| Puttin' On the Ritz | 2 |
| Puttin' on the Ritz sequence | 1 |
| Puttinʼ on the Ritz (bonus track on some editions) | 1 |
| Puttin’ On the Ritz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657610 — 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: Puttin' on the Ritz Context triple: [Irving Berlin, notableWork, Puttin' on the Ritz]
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A.
I Got Rhythm
"I Got Rhythm" is a popular jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, renowned for its catchy melody and influential chord progression widely used in jazz improvisation.
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B.
Alexander's Ragtime Band
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a hugely popular 1911 ragtime song that helped launch Irving Berlin's career and became one of the early standards of American popular music.
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C.
Can-Can
Can-Can is a 1953 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, best known for its lively Parisian setting and memorable score featuring songs like "I Love Paris."
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D.
Anything Goes
"Anything Goes" is a classic 1934 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, celebrated for its witty lyrics, memorable songs, and farcical romantic plot set aboard an ocean liner.
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E.
Satin Doll
"Satin Doll" is a classic jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington (with contributions from Billy Strayhorn and lyrics later added by Johnny Mercer) that has become one of his most frequently performed and recorded pieces.
- 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: Puttin' on the Ritz Target entity description: "Puttin' on the Ritz" is a popular 1929 American song, best known for its catchy melody and witty lyrics about fashionable high-society life.
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A.
I Got Rhythm
"I Got Rhythm" is a popular jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, renowned for its catchy melody and influential chord progression widely used in jazz improvisation.
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B.
Alexander's Ragtime Band
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a hugely popular 1911 ragtime song that helped launch Irving Berlin's career and became one of the early standards of American popular music.
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C.
Can-Can
Can-Can is a 1953 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, best known for its lively Parisian setting and memorable score featuring songs like "I Love Paris."
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D.
Anything Goes
"Anything Goes" is a classic 1934 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, celebrated for its witty lyrics, memorable songs, and farcical romantic plot set aboard an ocean liner.
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E.
Satin Doll
"Satin Doll" is a classic jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington (with contributions from Billy Strayhorn and lyrics later added by Johnny Mercer) that has become one of his most frequently performed and recorded pieces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz standard
ⓘ
popular song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| composer | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedAs | American song ⓘ |
| firstRecordedInDecade | 1920s ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ show tune ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPeriod | pre-World War II American popular music ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later popular music interpretations of high society themes ⓘ |
| hasLyricsCharacteristic | witty lyrics ⓘ |
| hasMelodyCharacteristic | catchy melody ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
memorable refrain
ⓘ
syncopated rhythm ⓘ |
| hasPerformanceContext |
film
ⓘ
nightclub acts ⓘ stage ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
urban sophistication
ⓘ
wealth and glamour ⓘ |
| isPartOf | American popular song repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| lyricsTheme |
fashionable high-society life
ⓘ
style and fashion ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a standard of the Great American Songbook ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1929 ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| writer | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| yearOfSong | 1929 ⓘ |
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: Puttin' on the Ritz Description of subject: "Puttin' on the Ritz" is a popular 1929 American song, best known for its catchy melody and witty lyrics about fashionable high-society life.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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