The Clock
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"The Clock" is a song by American R&B singer Johnny Ace, known for its smooth, melancholic style characteristic of early 1950s rhythm and blues.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Clock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6740274 — 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: The Clock Context triple: [Johnny Ace, notableWork, The Clock]
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A.
The Clock
The Clock is a 1945 romantic drama film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, directed by Vincente Minnelli, about a brief but intense wartime romance in New York City.
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B.
The Big Clock
The Big Clock is a 1948 film noir thriller about a magazine editor who becomes the prime suspect in a murder he is secretly investigating.
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C.
Klockerin
Klockerin is a prominent mountain peak in the Austrian Alps, located in the High Tauern range near the Grossglockner.
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D.
The Time of the Cuckoo
The Time of the Cuckoo is a romantic stage play by Arthur Laurents about a lonely American woman who finds unexpected love while vacationing in Venice.
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E.
The Sundial
"The Sundial" is a darkly comic Gothic novel by Shirley Jackson that explores themes of family dysfunction, apocalyptic prophecy, and claustrophobic isolation within a grand, eerie mansion.
- 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: The Clock Target entity description: "The Clock" is a song by American R&B singer Johnny Ace, known for its smooth, melancholic style characteristic of early 1950s rhythm and blues.
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A.
The Clock
The Clock is a 1945 romantic drama film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, directed by Vincente Minnelli, about a brief but intense wartime romance in New York City.
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B.
The Big Clock
The Big Clock is a 1948 film noir thriller about a magazine editor who becomes the prime suspect in a murder he is secretly investigating.
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C.
Klockerin
Klockerin is a prominent mountain peak in the Austrian Alps, located in the High Tauern range near the Grossglockner.
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D.
The Time of the Cuckoo
The Time of the Cuckoo is a romantic stage play by Arthur Laurents about a lonely American woman who finds unexpected love while vacationing in Venice.
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E.
The Sundial
"The Sundial" is a darkly comic Gothic novel by Shirley Jackson that explores themes of family dysfunction, apocalyptic prophecy, and claustrophobic isolation within a grand, eerie mansion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| artist | Johnny Ace ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Johnny Ace ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decade | 1950s ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| hasComposer | Johnny Ace ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
piano
ⓘ
rhythm section ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasLyricist | Johnny Ace ⓘ |
| hasPerformerNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
passage of time
ⓘ
romantic longing ⓘ |
| hasType | single ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | sound recording ⓘ |
| mood | melancholic ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early 1950s R&B sound
ⓘ
melancholic tone ⓘ smooth vocal delivery ⓘ |
| partOf | Johnny Ace discography ⓘ |
| performer | Johnny Ace ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristicOf | early 1950s rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | smooth ⓘ |
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: The Clock Description of subject: "The Clock" is a song by American R&B singer Johnny Ace, known for its smooth, melancholic style characteristic of early 1950s rhythm and blues.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.