The Cold Hard Facts of Life
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The Cold Hard Facts of Life is a 1967 country music album by Porter Wagoner, noted for its dark, narrative-driven songs and classic honky-tonk style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Cold Hard Facts of Life (song) | 3 |
| The Cold Hard Facts of Life canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3248775 — 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 Cold Hard Facts of Life Context triple: [Porter Wagoner, notableAlbum, The Cold Hard Facts of Life]
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A.
This Life
"This Life" is a rock-influenced theme song best known for opening the television series *Sons of Anarchy*, capturing its outlaw biker tone and atmosphere.
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B.
This Life
"This Life" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 2009 rock album "Working on a Dream."
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C.
This Life
"This Life" is a British television drama series that follows the intertwined personal and professional lives of young lawyers sharing a house in London.
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D.
It’s a Good Life
"It’s a Good Life" is a classic 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone about a small town terrorized by a young boy with godlike psychic powers.
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E.
Life as We Know It
Life as We Know It is a 2010 romantic comedy film about two single adults who unexpectedly become caregivers to an orphaned baby after their mutual friends die in an accident.
- 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 Cold Hard Facts of Life Target entity description: The Cold Hard Facts of Life is a 1967 country music album by Porter Wagoner, noted for its dark, narrative-driven songs and classic honky-tonk style.
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A.
This Life
"This Life" is a rock-influenced theme song best known for opening the television series *Sons of Anarchy*, capturing its outlaw biker tone and atmosphere.
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B.
This Life
"This Life" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 2009 rock album "Working on a Dream."
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C.
This Life
"This Life" is a British television drama series that follows the intertwined personal and professional lives of young lawyers sharing a house in London.
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D.
It’s a Good Life
"It’s a Good Life" is a classic 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone about a small town terrorized by a young boy with godlike psychic powers.
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E.
Life as We Know It
Life as We Know It is a 2010 romantic comedy film about two single adults who unexpectedly become caregivers to an orphaned baby after their mutual friends die in an accident.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Porter Wagoner ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Grand Ole Opry ⓘ |
| backingVocals | The Wagonmasters ⓘ |
| chronology | Porter Wagoner albums ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtFeatures | Porter Wagoner ⓘ |
| criticalReputation |
considered one of Porter Wagoner’s darker albums
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noted for dark narrative-driven songs ⓘ |
| decade | 1960s country music ⓘ |
| distribution | RCA Victor distribution network ⓘ |
| followedBy |
“The Carroll County Accident”
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surface form:
The Carroll County Accident
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| format | vinyl LP ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
honky-tonk ⓘ |
| hasGenreCharacteristic |
storytelling ballads
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traditional country instrumentation ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Bottle of Wine
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First Mrs. Jones ⓘ The Cold Hard Facts of Life self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Cold Hard Facts of Life (song)
The Cold Hard Facts of Life (track listing side A) ⓘ The Cold Hard Facts of Life (track listing side A) ⓘ
surface form:
The Cold Hard Facts of Life (track listing side B)
The Little Things Get to Me ⓘ Words and Music ⓘ |
| labelImprint |
RCA Victor
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surface form:
RCA Victor Nashville Sound era
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 30 minutes ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
infidelity
ⓘ
murder ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | classic honky-tonk ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | story song ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Cold Hard Facts of Life
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Cold Hard Facts of Life (song)
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| originalMedium | analog recording ⓘ |
| performer | Porter Wagoner ⓘ |
| precededBy | Confessions of a Broken Man ⓘ |
| producer | Bob Ferguson ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
backing band for Porter Wagoner
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surface form:
Porter Wagoner and his band
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| recordLabel | RCA Victor ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1967 ⓘ |
| titleTrack |
The Cold Hard Facts of Life
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Cold Hard Facts of Life (song)
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| vocalStyle | male lead vocals ⓘ |
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 Cold Hard Facts of Life Description of subject: The Cold Hard Facts of Life is a 1967 country music album by Porter Wagoner, noted for its dark, narrative-driven songs and classic honky-tonk style.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Carroll County Accident
this entity surface form:
The Cold Hard Facts of Life (song)
this entity surface form:
The Cold Hard Facts of Life (song)
this entity surface form:
The Cold Hard Facts of Life (song)