I’d Rather Lead a Band
E234178
"I’d Rather Lead a Band" is a popular 1930s American song best known for its lively, big-band style and association with classic Hollywood musical films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I’d Rather Lead a Band canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2116807 — 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: I’d Rather Lead a Band Context triple: [Follow the Fleet, featuresSong, I’d Rather Lead a Band]
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A.
Strike Up the Band
"Strike Up the Band" is a 1940 MGM musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, known for its lively song-and-dance numbers and classic big-band era style.
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B.
They Don’t Want Music
"They Don’t Want Music" is a funk-influenced hip hop track by The Black Eyed Peas featuring James Brown, known for its energetic critique of the music industry and celebration of live instrumentation.
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C.
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a powerful, emotionally charged showstopper ballad from the musical Dreamgirls, best known for its demanding vocals and iconic performances by Jennifer Holliday and Jennifer Hudson.
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D.
Wouldn’t Leave
"Wouldn’t Leave" is a melodic, emotionally driven song by Kanye West (Ye) that reflects on loyalty, controversy, and the strain his public actions place on his personal relationships.
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E.
A Band Apart
A Band Apart was a film production company co-founded by director Quentin Tarantino, known for producing several of his influential movies in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- 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: I’d Rather Lead a Band Target entity description: "I’d Rather Lead a Band" is a popular 1930s American song best known for its lively, big-band style and association with classic Hollywood musical films.
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A.
Strike Up the Band
"Strike Up the Band" is a 1940 MGM musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, known for its lively song-and-dance numbers and classic big-band era style.
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B.
They Don’t Want Music
"They Don’t Want Music" is a funk-influenced hip hop track by The Black Eyed Peas featuring James Brown, known for its energetic critique of the music industry and celebration of live instrumentation.
-
C.
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a powerful, emotionally charged showstopper ballad from the musical Dreamgirls, best known for its demanding vocals and iconic performances by Jennifer Holliday and Jennifer Hudson.
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D.
Wouldn’t Leave
"Wouldn’t Leave" is a melodic, emotionally driven song by Kanye West (Ye) that reflects on loyalty, controversy, and the strain his public actions place on his personal relationships.
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E.
A Band Apart
A Band Apart was a film production company co-founded by director Quentin Tarantino, known for producing several of his influential movies in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
popular song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hollywood musical films
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood musicals
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionChannel |
film
ⓘ
phonograph records ⓘ radio ⓘ |
| genre |
big band
ⓘ
jazz standard ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | American popular music of the 1930s ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | example of 1930s American big-band song ⓘ |
| hasEra |
Golden Age of Hollywood
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
|
| hasForm | song form ⓘ |
| hasStyle | lively ⓘ |
| hasTempo | up-tempo ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | mass entertainment ⓘ |
| intendedFor | dance bands ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | music ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Hollywood musical films
ⓘ
big-band style ⓘ |
| performancePractice |
orchestral arrangement
ⓘ
vocal with band ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| typicalEnsemble | big band ⓘ |
| usedIn | classic Hollywood musicals ⓘ |
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: I’d Rather Lead a Band Description of subject: "I’d Rather Lead a Band" is a popular 1930s American song best known for its lively, big-band style and association with classic Hollywood musical films.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bake Baker – Fred Astaire