Hitchin’ a Ride
E125697
"Hitchin’ a Ride" is a song by the American rock band Green Day from their 1997 album *Nimrod*.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hitchin’ a Ride canonical | 5 |
| Hitchin' a Ride | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1093151 — 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: Hitchin’ a Ride Context triple: [Nimrod, hasPart, Hitchin’ a Ride]
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A.
Ride On
Ride On is a public bus transit system operating local and regional routes in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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B.
Ride wit Me
"Ride wit Me" is a popular early-2000s hip hop single by American rapper Nelly that helped establish his mainstream success.
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C.
Drive, He Said
Drive, He Said is a 1971 American drama film directed by Jack Nicholson that explores campus unrest, basketball, and countercultural disillusionment during the Vietnam War era.
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D.
Ramblin'
"Ramblin'" is a folk album by The New Christy Minstrels that showcases the group's signature 1960s American folk revival sound and harmonies.
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E.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
- 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: Hitchin’ a Ride Target entity description: "Hitchin’ a Ride" is a song by the American rock band Green Day from their 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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A.
Ride On
Ride On is a public bus transit system operating local and regional routes in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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B.
Ride wit Me
"Ride wit Me" is a popular early-2000s hip hop single by American rapper Nelly that helped establish his mainstream success.
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C.
Drive, He Said
Drive, He Said is a 1971 American drama film directed by Jack Nicholson that explores campus unrest, basketball, and countercultural disillusionment during the Vietnam War era.
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D.
Ramblin'
"Ramblin'" is a folk album by The New Christy Minstrels that showcases the group's signature 1960s American folk revival sound and harmonies.
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E.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Hitchin’ a Ride Description of subject: "Hitchin’ a Ride" is a song by the American rock band Green Day from their 1997 album *Nimrod*.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hitchin’ a Ride
linked to: Hitchin’ a Ride
subject linked to:
Green Day compilation album International Superhits!
linked to: Hitchin’ a Ride