Pay Me My Money Down
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"Pay Me My Money Down" is a traditional American work song popularized in the folk revival and later notably covered by Bruce Springsteen.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pay Me My Money Down canonical | 3 |
| Pay me my money down | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921537 — 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: Pay Me My Money Down Context triple: [We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, hasPart, Pay Me My Money Down]
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A.
Take the Money and Crawl
"Take the Money and Crawl" is a song from the album *Father of All Motherfuckers* by the American rock band Green Day.
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B.
Million Dollar Bill
"Million Dollar Bill" is an upbeat dance-pop and R&B song by Whitney Houston, released as a single from her 2009 comeback album "I Look to You."
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C.
In My Business
"In My Business" is a song by Whitney Houston from her 1998 album *My Love Is Your Love*, blending R&B and pop with themes of privacy and personal boundaries.
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D.
Put It Down
"Put It Down" is a song featured on Brandy Norwood's sixth studio album, "Two Eleven."
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E.
Mo Money Mo Problems
"Mo Money Mo Problems" is a 1997 hip-hop single by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy and Mase, known for its catchy Diana Ross sample and exploration of the complications that come with wealth and fame.
- 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: Pay Me My Money Down Target entity description: "Pay Me My Money Down" is a traditional American work song popularized in the folk revival and later notably covered by Bruce Springsteen.
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A.
Take the Money and Crawl
"Take the Money and Crawl" is a song from the album *Father of All Motherfuckers* by the American rock band Green Day.
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B.
Million Dollar Bill
"Million Dollar Bill" is an upbeat dance-pop and R&B song by Whitney Houston, released as a single from her 2009 comeback album "I Look to You."
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C.
In My Business
"In My Business" is a song by Whitney Houston from her 1998 album *My Love Is Your Love*, blending R&B and pop with themes of privacy and personal boundaries.
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D.
Put It Down
"Put It Down" is a song featured on Brandy Norwood's sixth studio album, "Two Eleven."
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E.
Mo Money Mo Problems
"Mo Money Mo Problems" is a 1997 hip-hop single by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy and Mase, known for its catchy Diana Ross sample and exploration of the complications that come with wealth and fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American work song
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folk song ⓘ traditional song ⓘ |
| associatedWithOccupation |
dock workers
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stevedores ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
Georgia Sea Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
Sea Islands region
Southern United States ⓘ |
| chorusLine |
Pay me my money down
ⓘ
linked to:
Pay Me My Money Down
Pay me or go to jail ⓘ |
| collectedIn | American sea shanty tradition ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
work song ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
group vocals
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repetitive chorus ⓘ strong rhythmic pulse ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | call and response ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer |
Bruce Springsteen
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Pete Seeger ⓘ Sharon, Lois & Bram ⓘ The Kingston Trio ⓘ The Weavers ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording | Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band recording ⓘ |
| isPublicDomain | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
demand for wages
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labor ⓘ sailors and dock work ⓘ |
| performedOnTour | Bruce Springsteen Seeger Sessions Tour ⓘ |
| popularizedIn |
American folk revival
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linked to:
American folk music revival
|
| traditional | true ⓘ |
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: Pay Me My Money Down Description of subject: "Pay Me My Money Down" is a traditional American work song popularized in the folk revival and later notably covered by Bruce Springsteen.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pay Me My Money Down