Willie the Weeper
E523380
"Willie the Weeper" is a classic early jazz tune, popularized in the 1920s and known for its vivid, drug-themed storytelling and recordings by major jazz artists.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Willie the Weeper canonical | 2 |
| Willie the Pimp | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5471042 — 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: Willie the Weeper Context triple: [Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, notableRecording, Willie the Weeper]
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A.
Willie
Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
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B.
Willie
Willie is a character from the classic American television sitcom "Happy Days," which nostalgically portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s.
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C.
Mr. Pitiful
"Mr. Pitiful" is a 1964 soul song by Otis Redding, celebrated for its upbeat groove and Redding’s emotive, powerhouse vocal performance.
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D.
Willi
Willi is a given name, typically a variant of Willy or William, used in various European countries.
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E.
Willie the Wildcat
Willie the Wildcat is the costumed wildcat mascot who represents Northwestern University's athletic teams and school spirit.
- 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: Willie the Weeper Target entity description: "Willie the Weeper" is a classic early jazz tune, popularized in the 1920s and known for its vivid, drug-themed storytelling and recordings by major jazz artists.
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A.
Willie
Willie is a character from the classic American television sitcom "Happy Days," which nostalgically portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Willie
Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
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C.
Mr. Pitiful
"Mr. Pitiful" is a 1964 soul song by Otis Redding, celebrated for its upbeat groove and Redding’s emotive, powerhouse vocal performance.
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D.
Willi
Willi is a given name, typically a variant of Willy or William, used in various European countries.
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E.
Willie the Wildcat
Willie the Wildcat is the costumed wildcat mascot who represents Northwestern University's athletic teams and school spirit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWithSubculture |
drug culture
ⓘ
jazz scene ⓘ |
| circulatedAs | folk-jazz song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstKnownPublicationPeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| genre |
early jazz
ⓘ
traditional jazz ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Willie ⓘ |
| hasCulturalStatus | jazz standard with underground origins ⓘ |
| hasForm | strophic song ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
drug-induced dreams
ⓘ
rags-to-riches fantasy ⓘ return to reality at the end ⓘ |
| hasReputation | vivid drug-themed storytelling ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
cleaned-up lyric versions
ⓘ
explicit lyric versions ⓘ |
| influencedWork | Minnie the Moocher ⓘ |
| isConsidered | classic early jazz tune ⓘ |
| isPartOf | early jazz repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
drug use
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ hallucination ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | storytelling ⓘ |
| notableRecordingArtist |
Bix Beiderbecke
ⓘ
Cab Calloway ⓘ Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon ⓘ King Oliver ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven ⓘ Muggsy Spanier ⓘ |
| oftenClassifiedAs |
novelty song
ⓘ
story song ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
jazz club repertoire
ⓘ
traditional jazz revival sets ⓘ |
| popularizedInDecade | 1920s ⓘ |
| recordingEra |
acoustic recording era
ⓘ
electrical recording era ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
chimney sweep
ⓘ
dreams of wealth and adventure ⓘ opium ⓘ |
| typicalEnsemble | small jazz combo ⓘ |
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: Willie the Weeper Description of subject: "Willie the Weeper" is a classic early jazz tune, popularized in the 1920s and known for its vivid, drug-themed storytelling and recordings by major jazz artists.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.