Sloop John B
E363899
"Sloop John B" is a popular folk song famously adapted and recorded by the Beach Boys on their landmark 1966 album "Pet Sounds."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sloop John B canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3503429 — 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: Sloop John B Context triple: [The Beach Boys, notableWork, Sloop John B]
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Brigs of Ayr
"The Brigs of Ayr" is a poem by Robert Burns that personifies the old and new bridges over the River Ayr in Scotland to reflect on change, progress, and local life.
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C.
The Sea Lady
The Sea Lady is a 1902 fantasy novel by H. G. Wells that satirically explores Edwardian society through the disruptive arrival of a mysterious mermaid.
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D.
Redburn
Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Herman Melville that follows a young man's coming-of-age voyage as a sailor on a transatlantic ship.
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E.
The Barque of Dante
The Barque of Dante is a dramatic 1822 Romantic painting by Eugène Delacroix depicting Dante and Virgil crossing the infernal waters of the River Styx.
- 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: Sloop John B Target entity description: "Sloop John B" is a popular folk song famously adapted and recorded by the Beach Boys on their landmark 1966 album "Pet Sounds."
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Brigs of Ayr
"The Brigs of Ayr" is a poem by Robert Burns that personifies the old and new bridges over the River Ayr in Scotland to reflect on change, progress, and local life.
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C.
The Sea Lady
The Sea Lady is a 1902 fantasy novel by H. G. Wells that satirically explores Edwardian society through the disruptive arrival of a mysterious mermaid.
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D.
Redburn
Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Herman Melville that follows a young man's coming-of-age voyage as a sailor on a transatlantic ship.
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E.
The Barque of Dante
The Barque of Dante is a dramatic 1822 Romantic painting by Eugène Delacroix depicting Dante and Virgil crossing the infernal waters of the River Styx.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk song
ⓘ
song ⓘ traditional song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
I Want to Go Home
ⓘ
The John B. Sails ⓘ |
| basedOn | Bahamian folk song "The John B. Sails" ⓘ |
| collectedBy |
Richard Le Gallienne
ⓘ
W. Owen ⓘ |
| collectedIn |
Nassau, Bahamas
ⓘ
linked to:
Nassau
|
| countryOfOrigin | Bahamas ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
cook
ⓘ
first mate ⓘ grandfather ⓘ |
| firstPublication | 1916 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
The American Magazine
ⓘ
linked to:
American Magazine
|
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Bahamian Creole maritime culture ⓘ |
| hasForm |
ballad
ⓘ
sea song ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyric |
"Call for the captain ashore"
ⓘ
"Let me go home" ⓘ "So hoist up the John B's sail" ⓘ |
| hasVersion | Sloop John B (The Beach Boys recording) ⓘ |
| influenced | Sloop John B (Beach Boys arrangement) ⓘ |
| isInPublicDomain | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableRecordingArtist |
Dick Dale and His Del-Tones
ⓘ
linked to:
The Del-Tones
Johnny Cash ⓘ Lonnie Donegan ⓘ Me First and the Gimme Gimmes ⓘ Relient K ⓘ The Beach Boys ⓘ The Kingston Trio ⓘ The Merrymen ⓘ The Weavers ⓘ |
| origin | Bahamas ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | The Beach Boys ⓘ |
| refrain |
"I feel so broke up, I want to go home"
ⓘ
"This is the worst trip I've ever been on" ⓘ |
| setting | Nassau ⓘ |
| subject | a sloop named John B ⓘ |
| theme |
drunkenness
ⓘ
homesickness ⓘ misadventure at sea ⓘ |
| title | Sloop John B ⓘ |
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: Sloop John B Description of subject: "Sloop John B" is a popular folk song famously adapted and recorded by the Beach Boys on their landmark 1966 album "Pet Sounds."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.