Little Drummer Boy
E218757
"Little Drummer Boy" is a popular Christmas carol about a poor boy who offers his drumming as a humble gift to the newborn Jesus.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Drummer Boy canonical | 4 |
| The Little Drummer Boy (1968 TV special) | 4 |
| The Little Drummer Boy | 3 |
| Drummer Boy | 2 |
| "The Little Drummer Boy" (as sung by Dwight) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1958291 — 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: Little Drummer Boy Context triple: [One Wish: The Holiday Album, hasTrack, Little Drummer Boy]
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A.
Silver Bells
"Silver Bells" is a classic Christmas song widely associated with the holiday season and frequently included on festive albums.
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B.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a classic Christmas standard, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis* and since covered by countless artists.
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C.
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is a classic 1970 stop-motion animated Christmas television special that tells the origin story of Santa Claus, featuring narration by Fred Astaire.
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D.
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" is a classic mid-20th-century Christmas standard, famously popularized by Nat King Cole and known for its warm, nostalgic imagery of the holiday season.
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E.
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a 1971 anti-war Christmas song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that combines holiday themes with a message of peace and protest against the Vietnam War.
- 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: Little Drummer Boy Target entity description: "Little Drummer Boy" is a popular Christmas carol about a poor boy who offers his drumming as a humble gift to the newborn Jesus.
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A.
Silver Bells
"Silver Bells" is a classic Christmas song widely associated with the holiday season and frequently included on festive albums.
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B.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a classic Christmas standard, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis* and since covered by countless artists.
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C.
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" is a classic 1970 stop-motion animated Christmas television special that tells the origin story of Santa Claus, featuring narration by Fred Astaire.
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D.
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" is a classic mid-20th-century Christmas standard, famously popularized by Nat King Cole and known for its warm, nostalgic imagery of the holiday season.
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E.
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a 1971 anti-war Christmas song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that combines holiday themes with a message of peace and protest against the Vietnam War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christmas carol
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| about |
newborn Jesus
ⓘ
linked to:
Child Jesus
offering a humble gift ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Carol of the Drum
ⓘ
The Little Drummer Boy ⓘ
linked to:
Little Drummer Boy
|
| centralAction | boy plays drum for Jesus ⓘ |
| centralMotif | drum ⓘ |
| commonlyPerformedBy |
choirs
ⓘ
orchestras ⓘ solo vocalists ⓘ |
| composer | Katherine Kennicott Davis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts | visit to baby Jesus ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| firstRecordingYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| genre |
Christmas music
ⓘ
religious music ⓘ |
| hasForm | strophic song ⓘ |
| hasImagery |
Mary and baby Jesus
ⓘ
linked to:
Madonna and Child
animals at the manger ⓘ stable ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | poor boy drummer ⓘ |
| hasReligiousContext | Christian hymn tradition ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general Christian audience ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyRecorded | true ⓘ |
| isSeasonalStandard | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Katherine Kennicott Davis ⓘ |
| lyricMotive |
non-material gift
ⓘ
poverty of the boy ⓘ |
| message | spiritual value of sincere gifts ⓘ |
| musicalFeature |
drum-like vocal patterns
ⓘ
simple repetitive rhythm ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Carol of the Drum ⓘ |
| performedDuring | Christmas season ⓘ |
| popularIn |
Europe
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| refrain | pa rum pum pum pum ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christian
ⓘ
linked to:
Christianity
|
| setting |
Nativity of Jesus
ⓘ
linked to:
Nativity of Christ
|
| subject | Christianity ⓘ |
| symbolizes | giving what one can ⓘ |
| theme |
devotion to Jesus
ⓘ
gift-giving ⓘ humility ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | birth of Jesus era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Little Drummer Boy Description of subject: "Little Drummer Boy" is a popular Christmas carol about a poor boy who offers his drumming as a humble gift to the newborn Jesus.
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