The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)
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"The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)" is a 1918 ragtime-style song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin that playfully critiques sentimental folk songs while celebrating the lively rag genre.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag) canonical | 2 |
| The Real American Folk Song | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9367413 — 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 Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag) Context triple: [Harry Ruby, notableWork, The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)]
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A.
Doin' That Rag
"Doin' That Rag" is a psychedelic rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its complex structure, whimsical lyrics, and prominent place in the band's late-1960s live repertoire.
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B.
Oldtown Folks
Oldtown Folks is a 19th-century novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrays life, religion, and community in a small New England village.
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C.
Maple Leaf Rag
"Maple Leaf Rag" is a landmark ragtime piano composition by Scott Joplin, renowned for its syncopated rhythms and major influence on early American popular music.
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D.
Nashville Skyline Rag
"Nashville Skyline Rag" is an instrumental country tune by Bob Dylan featured on his 1969 album *Nashville Skyline*.
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E.
Blue Yodel No. 2
"Blue Yodel No. 2" is a classic early country and blues-influenced song by Jimmie Rodgers that helped define his signature yodeling style and shape the development of country music.
- 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 Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag) Target entity description: "The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)" is a 1918 ragtime-style song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin that playfully critiques sentimental folk songs while celebrating the lively rag genre.
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A.
Doin' That Rag
"Doin' That Rag" is a psychedelic rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its complex structure, whimsical lyrics, and prominent place in the band's late-1960s live repertoire.
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B.
Oldtown Folks
Oldtown Folks is a 19th-century novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrays life, religion, and community in a small New England village.
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C.
Maple Leaf Rag
"Maple Leaf Rag" is a landmark ragtime piano composition by Scott Joplin, renowned for its syncopated rhythms and major influence on early American popular music.
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D.
Nashville Skyline Rag
"Nashville Skyline Rag" is an instrumental country tune by Bob Dylan featured on his 1969 album *Nashville Skyline*.
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E.
Blue Yodel No. 2
"Blue Yodel No. 2" is a classic early country and blues-influenced song by Jimmie Rodgers that helped define his signature yodeling style and shape the development of country music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | ragtime era ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | ragtime ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
The Real American Folk Song
ⓘ
linked to:
The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)
|
| hasComposerLyricistRelationship | collaboration between George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme |
celebration of ragtime music
ⓘ
critique of sentimental folk songs ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyricDevice |
humor
ⓘ
irony ⓘ parody ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| musicalForm | song form ⓘ |
| musicBy | George Gershwin ⓘ |
| partOfOeuvre |
works of George Gershwin
ⓘ
works of Ira Gershwin ⓘ |
| period | early 20th century American popular music ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1918 ⓘ |
| style | ragtime-style popular song ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
American folk song tradition
ⓘ
contrast between folk ballads and ragtime ⓘ |
| yearOfComposition | 1918 ⓘ |
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 Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag) Description of subject: "The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)" is a 1918 ragtime-style song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin that playfully critiques sentimental folk songs while celebrating the lively rag genre.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)