(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
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"(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" is a popular novelty song from the early 1950s, best known for its catchy chorus about a puppy in a pet shop window and for becoming a major hit for singer Patti Page.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? | 7 |
| (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window? canonical | 3 |
| How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? (song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6487597 — 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: (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window? Context triple: [Bob Merrill, notableWork, (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?]
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A.
Walk These Dogs
"Walk These Dogs" is a track from the album "Year of the Dog... Again" by rapper DMX.
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B.
White Dog
White Dog is a crime novel in the Jack Irish series by Australian author Peter Temple, featuring the Melbourne lawyer and debt-collector embroiled in a complex investigation.
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C.
White Dog
White Dog is a 1982 American drama-horror film directed by Samuel Fuller that explores racism through the story of a dog trained to attack Black people.
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D.
Get at Me Dog
"Get at Me Dog" is a 1998 breakout single by American rapper DMX that helped establish his gritty, aggressive style and mainstream success in hip-hop.
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E.
I’m Ya Dogg
"I’m Ya Dogg" is a song by the rock band Bush, known as the final track on one of their studio albums.
- 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: (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window? Target entity description: "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" is a popular novelty song from the early 1950s, best known for its catchy chorus about a puppy in a pet shop window and for becoming a major hit for singer Patti Page.
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A.
Walk These Dogs
"Walk These Dogs" is a track from the album "Year of the Dog... Again" by rapper DMX.
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B.
White Dog
White Dog is a crime novel in the Jack Irish series by Australian author Peter Temple, featuring the Melbourne lawyer and debt-collector embroiled in a complex investigation.
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C.
White Dog
White Dog is a 1982 American drama-horror film directed by Samuel Fuller that explores racism through the story of a dog trained to attack Black people.
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D.
Get at Me Dog
"Get at Me Dog" is a 1998 breakout single by American rapper DMX that helped establish his gritty, aggressive style and mainstream success in hip-hop.
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E.
I’m Ya Dogg
"I’m Ya Dogg" is a song by the rock band Bush, known as the final track on one of their studio albums.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
1950s American pop music
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Patti Page discography ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | major hit in the United States ⓘ |
| composer | Bob Merrill ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| culturalStatus | popular standard of the 1950s ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| genre |
novelty
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traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling |
How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?
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linked to:
(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
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| hasChorusAbout | a puppy in a pet shop window ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later novelty animal songs ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
catchy repetitive chorus
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novelty sound effects ⓘ |
| hasParentheticalInTitle | (How Much Is) ⓘ |
| hasTitlePunctuation | question mark at the end of the title ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithAnimal | dog ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithSetting | pet shop ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyClassifiedAs |
children's song
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novelty hit ⓘ |
| isTargetAudience |
children and families
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general pop audience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bob Merrill ⓘ |
| lyricMotif | dog barking sounds ⓘ |
| madeFamousBy | Patti Page ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy | Patti Page ⓘ |
| performedBy | Patti Page ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Patti Page ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Mercury Records ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
a dog displayed in a store window
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a person wanting to buy a dog for a loved one ⓘ |
| theme |
buying a dog
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loneliness ⓘ pet shop ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 1950s ⓘ |
| writer | Bob Merrill ⓘ |
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: (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window? Description of subject: "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" is a popular novelty song from the early 1950s, best known for its catchy chorus about a puppy in a pet shop window and for becoming a major hit for singer Patti Page.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?
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subject linked to:
Bob Merrill (lyricist of Funny Girl)
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