“Lonesome Valley”
E1038957
“Lonesome Valley” is a reflective folk song by Bill Callahan from his album *Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest*, marked by its understated instrumentation and introspective lyrics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| “Lonesome Valley” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13420629 — 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: “Lonesome Valley” Context triple: [Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, hasPart, “Lonesome Valley”]
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A.
Lonesome Tree
"Lonesome Tree" is the opening theme song associated with the classic American Western television series *The Virginian*.
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B.
Lonesome Town
"Lonesome Town" is a melancholic 1958 pop ballad performed by Ricky Nelson that became one of his signature hits.
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C.
Down in the Valley
Down in the Valley is a 2005 independent drama film about a troubled drifter who becomes romantically involved with a teenage girl in California’s San Fernando Valley.
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D.
Song of the Dusty Trail
"Song of the Dusty Trail" is a Western-themed song featured in the 1938 singing-cowboy film *Under Western Stars*, starring Roy Rogers.
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E.
“Street in a Frontier Town”
“Street in a Frontier Town” is a painting depicting a dusty, lawless Western street scene associated with the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid and the American frontier era.
- 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: “Lonesome Valley” Target entity description: “Lonesome Valley” is a reflective folk song by Bill Callahan from his album *Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest*, marked by its understated instrumentation and introspective lyrics.
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A.
Lonesome Tree
"Lonesome Tree" is the opening theme song associated with the classic American Western television series *The Virginian*.
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B.
Lonesome Town
"Lonesome Town" is a melancholic 1958 pop ballad performed by Ricky Nelson that became one of his signature hits.
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C.
Down in the Valley
Down in the Valley is a 2005 independent drama film about a troubled drifter who becomes romantically involved with a teenage girl in California’s San Fernando Valley.
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D.
Song of the Dusty Trail
"Song of the Dusty Trail" is a Western-themed song featured in the 1938 singing-cowboy film *Under Western Stars*, starring Roy Rogers.
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E.
“Street in a Frontier Town”
“Street in a Frontier Town” is a painting depicting a dusty, lawless Western street scene associated with the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid and the American frontier era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest ⓘ |
| artist | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Drag City ⓘ |
| composer | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creditedTo | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
| genre | folk ⓘ |
| hasArtistNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation | understated instrumentation ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasLyricsCharacteristic | introspective lyrics ⓘ |
| hasStyle | reflective ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional solitude
ⓘ
introspection ⓘ personal reflection ⓘ |
| hasVocalType | male vocal ⓘ |
| isTrackOn | Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
| medium | studio recording ⓘ |
| musicGenreContext | indie folk ⓘ |
| partOf | Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest ⓘ |
| performer | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Bill Callahan ⓘ |
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: “Lonesome Valley” Description of subject: “Lonesome Valley” is a reflective folk song by Bill Callahan from his album *Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest*, marked by its understated instrumentation and introspective lyrics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.