This Ole House
E413986
"This Ole House" is a popular 1954 novelty song, best known through Rosemary Clooney’s hit recording, about an old house reflecting on its owner’s life and approaching death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Ole House canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4108231 — 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: This Ole House Context triple: [Rosemary Clooney, notableWork, This Ole House]
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A.
My Mammy
"My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
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B.
Old Kentucky Home
Old Kentucky Home, originally titled "Negro Life at the South," is an 1859 genre painting by Eastman Johnson depicting African American domestic life in Washington, D.C., often noted for its complex portrayal of race and slavery before the Civil War.
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C.
The House That Nat Built
"The House That Nat Built" is a nickname for the Capitol Records Building in Los Angeles, highlighting how Nat King Cole’s success was instrumental in establishing the label’s prominence.
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D.
The Dixie Stop
The Dixie Stop is a local hangout and convenience store featured in the TV series "Hart of Dixie," frequently associated with the character Lemon Breeland.
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E.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
"Stompin’ at the Savoy" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, closely associated with the Harlem Savoy Ballroom and famed for its infectious rhythm and enduring popularity among big band and jazz ensembles.
- 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: This Ole House Target entity description: "This Ole House" is a popular 1954 novelty song, best known through Rosemary Clooney’s hit recording, about an old house reflecting on its owner’s life and approaching death.
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A.
My Mammy
"My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
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B.
Old Kentucky Home
Old Kentucky Home, originally titled "Negro Life at the South," is an 1859 genre painting by Eastman Johnson depicting African American domestic life in Washington, D.C., often noted for its complex portrayal of race and slavery before the Civil War.
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C.
The House That Nat Built
"The House That Nat Built" is a nickname for the Capitol Records Building in Los Angeles, highlighting how Nat King Cole’s success was instrumental in establishing the label’s prominence.
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D.
The Dixie Stop
The Dixie Stop is a local hangout and convenience store featured in the TV series "Hart of Dixie," frequently associated with the character Lemon Breeland.
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E.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
"Stompin’ at the Savoy" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, closely associated with the Harlem Savoy Ballroom and famed for its infectious rhythm and enduring popularity among big band and jazz ensembles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelty song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
This Old House
ⓘ
linked to:
This Old House magazine
|
| composer | Stuart Hamblen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decade | 1950s ⓘ |
| describedAs | song about an old house reflecting on its owner’s life and approaching death ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| genre |
novelty song
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | popular culture of the 1950s ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
house owner
ⓘ
old house ⓘ |
| hasTitle | This Ole House ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Stuart Hamblen ⓘ |
| medium | recorded music ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy | Rosemary Clooney ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | Rosemary Clooney ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1954 ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
ⓘ
death ⓘ memory ⓘ reflection on life ⓘ |
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: This Ole House Description of subject: "This Ole House" is a popular 1954 novelty song, best known through Rosemary Clooney’s hit recording, about an old house reflecting on its owner’s life and approaching death.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.