Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
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Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train is a critically acclaimed stage play that explores themes of faith, justice, and morality through the story of inmates at Rikers Island.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train canonical | 6 |
| Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train universe | 2 |
| Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (2000 stage premiere) | 1 |
| Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (stage performance) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2060962 — 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: Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train Context triple: [Stephen Adly Guirgis, notableWork, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train]
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A.
Take the "A" Train
"Take the 'A' Train" is a classic jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn that became the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and one of the most famous pieces in big band jazz.
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B.
The Trolley Song
"The Trolley Song" is a classic show tune from the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis*, widely recognized as one of Judy Garland’s most iconic musical performances.
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C.
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" is a groundbreaking 1965 funk song by James Brown that is widely credited with helping to define the funk genre and reshape popular music.
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D.
One O’Clock Jump
One O’Clock Jump is a classic 1937 swing-era jazz instrumental and signature tune of the Count Basie Orchestra, renowned for its riff-based structure and driving rhythm.
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E.
Boardwalk Hall
Boardwalk Hall is a historic indoor arena and entertainment venue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, known for hosting major concerts, sporting events, and the Miss America pageant.
- 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: Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train Target entity description: Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train is a critically acclaimed stage play that explores themes of faith, justice, and morality through the story of inmates at Rikers Island.
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A.
Take the "A" Train
"Take the 'A' Train" is a classic jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn that became the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and one of the most famous pieces in big band jazz.
-
B.
The Trolley Song
"The Trolley Song" is a classic show tune from the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis*, widely recognized as one of Judy Garland’s most iconic musical performances.
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C.
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" is a groundbreaking 1965 funk song by James Brown that is widely credited with helping to define the funk genre and reshape popular music.
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D.
One O’Clock Jump
One O’Clock Jump is a classic 1937 swing-era jazz instrumental and signature tune of the Count Basie Orchestra, renowned for its riff-based structure and driving rhythm.
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E.
Boardwalk Hall
Boardwalk Hall is a historic indoor arena and entertainment venue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, known for hosting major concerts, sporting events, and the Miss America pageant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train Description of subject: Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train is a critically acclaimed stage play that explores themes of faith, justice, and morality through the story of inmates at Rikers Island.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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