Ole Dan Tucker
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"Ole Dan Tucker" is an alternate title for the 19th-century American minstrel song "Old Dan Tucker," a popular and influential piece in early American folk and minstrel music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ole Dan Tucker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9056037 — 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: Ole Dan Tucker Context triple: [Old Dan Tucker, hasVariantTitle, Ole Dan Tucker]
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A.
Tommy Stinson
Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements and later as a longtime member of Guns N’ Roses.
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B.
Tommy Bangs
Tommy Bangs is a fictional character from Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Jo’s Boys," appearing as one of the next-generation children connected to the original March family from "Little Women."
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C.
Scott Asheton
Scott Asheton was an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the influential proto-punk band The Stooges.
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D.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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E.
Joe Darlington
Joe Darlington is a notable individual who shares the Darlington surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- 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: Ole Dan Tucker Target entity description: "Ole Dan Tucker" is an alternate title for the 19th-century American minstrel song "Old Dan Tucker," a popular and influential piece in early American folk and minstrel music.
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A.
Tommy Stinson
Tommy Stinson is an American rock musician and bassist best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements and later as a longtime member of Guns N’ Roses.
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B.
Tommy Bangs
Tommy Bangs is a fictional character from Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Jo’s Boys," appearing as one of the next-generation children connected to the original March family from "Little Women."
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C.
Scott Asheton
Scott Asheton was an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the influential proto-punk band The Stooges.
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D.
Dale Crover
Dale Crover is an American drummer best known for his long tenure with the Melvins and his early, influential recordings and performances with Nirvana.
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E.
Joe Darlington
Joe Darlington is a notable individual who shares the Darlington surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| alternateTitleOf | Old Dan Tucker ⓘ |
| associatedWith | blackface minstrelsy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstKnownPerformanceDecade | 1840s ⓘ |
| form | strophic form ⓘ |
| genre |
American folk song
ⓘ
minstrel song ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | helped popularize minstrel song style ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | early American popular song standard ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Dan Tucker ⓘ |
| hasSubject | rural American character ⓘ |
| hasVariantTitle | Old Dan Tucker ⓘ |
| influenced | later American folk repertoire ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
bluegrass music
ⓘ
country music ⓘ old-time music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| meter | duple meter ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century American popular music ⓘ |
| performanceContext | 19th-century American stage entertainment ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Old Dan Tucker ⓘ |
| theme |
comic narrative
ⓘ
frontier life ⓘ |
| usedIn | minstrel shows ⓘ |
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: Ole Dan Tucker Description of subject: "Ole Dan Tucker" is an alternate title for the 19th-century American minstrel song "Old Dan Tucker," a popular and influential piece in early American folk and minstrel music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.