When I'm Gone
E365097
"When I'm Gone" is a reflective folk song by American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs that contemplates mortality and the urgency of acting for justice and love while still alive.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| When I'm Gone canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3517262 — 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: When I'm Gone Context triple: [Phil Ochs, notableWork, When I'm Gone]
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A.
When I'm Gone
"When I'm Gone" is a post-grunge rock song by American band 3 Doors Down, known for its emotive lyrics about love, absence, and devotion.
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B.
So Gone
"So Gone" is an R&B song best known as a 2003 hit single by Monica, produced by Missy Elliott and Kanye West.
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C.
She Is Gone
"She Is Gone" is a song by the American rock band Spirit, known for their eclectic blend of psychedelic rock, jazz, and folk influences.
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D.
They Won't Go When I Go
"They Won't Go When I Go" is a somber, gospel-influenced ballad by Stevie Wonder reflecting on mortality and spiritual judgment.
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E.
I Still Can’t Believe You’re Gone
"I Still Can’t Believe You’re Gone" is a country song by Willie Nelson featured on his concept album "Phases and Stages."
- 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: When I'm Gone Target entity description: "When I'm Gone" is a reflective folk song by American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs that contemplates mortality and the urgency of acting for justice and love while still alive.
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A.
When I'm Gone
"When I'm Gone" is a post-grunge rock song by American band 3 Doors Down, known for its emotive lyrics about love, absence, and devotion.
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B.
So Gone
"So Gone" is an R&B song best known as a 2003 hit single by Monica, produced by Missy Elliott and Kanye West.
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C.
She Is Gone
"She Is Gone" is a song by the American rock band Spirit, known for their eclectic blend of psychedelic rock, jazz, and folk influences.
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D.
They Won't Go When I Go
"They Won't Go When I Go" is a somber, gospel-influenced ballad by Stevie Wonder reflecting on mortality and spiritual judgment.
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E.
I Still Can’t Believe You’re Gone
"I Still Can’t Believe You’re Gone" is a country song by Willie Nelson featured on his concept album "Phases and Stages."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
1960s folk revival
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American protest music ⓘ |
| composer | Phil Ochs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre | folk music ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
voice ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
civil rights
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compassion ⓘ death ⓘ ethical duty ⓘ peace ⓘ time ⓘ |
| hasType |
political folk song
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protest song ⓘ reflective song ⓘ |
| intendedMessage |
Act for justice and love before it is too late
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Life’s value lies in what we do while we are alive ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricFocus |
need to act while alive
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things that cannot be done after death ⓘ |
| mood |
melancholic
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reflective ⓘ resolute ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
acoustic
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singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| notableQuote |
I can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone
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I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone ⓘ I won't feel the flowing of the time when I'm gone ⓘ So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here ⓘ |
| performer | Phil Ochs ⓘ |
| theme |
anti-war sentiment
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humanitarianism ⓘ legacy ⓘ love ⓘ mortality ⓘ nonviolence ⓘ personal responsibility ⓘ political activism ⓘ social justice ⓘ urgency of action ⓘ |
| writer | Phil Ochs ⓘ |
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: When I'm Gone Description of subject: "When I'm Gone" is a reflective folk song by American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs that contemplates mortality and the urgency of acting for justice and love while still alive.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune