Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
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"Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town" is a country song most famously performed by Kenny Rogers, telling the poignant story of a disabled veteran whose wife seeks love elsewhere.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147813 — 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: Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town Context triple: [Kenny Rogers, notableWork, Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town]
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A.
She Don’t Have to Know
"She Don’t Have to Know" is an R&B song by John Legend from his debut studio album "Get Lifted," known for its soulful vocals and themes of secret romance.
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B.
I'm Your Baby Tonight
"I'm Your Baby Tonight" is a 1990 R&B and pop song by Whitney Houston that showcases a more urban, dance-oriented sound and became one of her major international hits.
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C.
I Love You, California
"I Love You, California" is a patriotic song celebrating the landscapes and spirit of California, officially adopted as the state's song.
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D.
My Love Is Your Love
My Love Is Your Love is a 1998 R&B and pop album by Whitney Houston that marked her successful return to contemporary music with hits like "It's Not Right but It's Okay" and the title track.
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E.
Yell
Yell is one of the larger inhabited islands in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, wildlife, and remote rural communities.
- 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: Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town Target entity description: "Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town" is a country song most famously performed by Kenny Rogers, telling the poignant story of a disabled veteran whose wife seeks love elsewhere.
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A.
She Don’t Have to Know
"She Don’t Have to Know" is an R&B song by John Legend from his debut studio album "Get Lifted," known for its soulful vocals and themes of secret romance.
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B.
I'm Your Baby Tonight
"I'm Your Baby Tonight" is a 1990 R&B and pop song by Whitney Houston that showcases a more urban, dance-oriented sound and became one of her major international hits.
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C.
I Love You, California
"I Love You, California" is a patriotic song celebrating the landscapes and spirit of California, officially adopted as the state's song.
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D.
My Love Is Your Love
My Love Is Your Love is a 1998 R&B and pop album by Whitney Houston that marked her successful return to contemporary music with hits like "It's Not Right but It's Okay" and the title track.
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E.
Yell
Yell is one of the larger inhabited islands in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, wildlife, and remote rural communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
ⓘ
surface form:
Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love to Town)
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town ⓘ
surface form:
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town
|
| associatedAct |
Kenny Rogers
ⓘ
The First Edition ⓘ |
| composer | Mel Tillis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| famousFor | poignant portrayal of a disabled veteran’s marital struggles ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
country pop ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Ruby
ⓘ
Ruby’s husband ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later country songs about Vietnam veterans ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
loneliness in marriage
ⓘ
psychological impact of war injuries ⓘ |
| hasType | narrative song ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalMotif |
bitterness and resignation
ⓘ
plea for fidelity ⓘ |
| lyricist | Mel Tillis ⓘ |
| medium | recorded music ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| narratorRole | disabled veteran husband ⓘ |
| notableArtistRelease | Kenny Rogers and The First Edition ⓘ |
| notableFor | commercial success of Kenny Rogers’ version ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Merle Haggard
ⓘ
surface form:
Johnny Darrell
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition ⓘ Waylon Jennings ⓘ |
| notableReleaseYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| originalRecordingArtist | Johnny Darrell ⓘ |
| partOf | Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s repertoire ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Bobby Bare
ⓘ
Johnny Darrell ⓘ Kenny Rogers and The First Edition ⓘ The Statler Brothers ⓘ Waylon Jennings ⓘ |
| setting | post-war American home ⓘ |
| subjectOf | cover versions by multiple country artists ⓘ |
| theme |
disabled war veteran
ⓘ
emotional trauma of war ⓘ marital infidelity ⓘ |
| title | Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town self-link ⓘ |
| writer | Mel Tillis ⓘ |
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: Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town Description of subject: "Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town" is a country song most famously performed by Kenny Rogers, telling the poignant story of a disabled veteran whose wife seeks love elsewhere.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town
this entity surface form:
Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love to Town)
this entity surface form:
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town
subject surface form:
Ruby (character in "Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town")
this entity surface form:
"Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town"
this entity surface form:
“Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town”