Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire"
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The Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire" is an early 20th-century American gospel-influenced folk hymn whose melody later became famous as the tune for Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4263921 — 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: Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire" Context triple: [This Land Is Your Land, hasMelodyBasedOn, Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire"]
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A.
song "Oh Shenandoah"
"Oh Shenandoah" is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, often associated with 19th-century river travel and westward expansion.
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B.
song “Come unto these yellow sands”
“Come unto these yellow sands” is a lyrical song from William Shakespeare’s play *The Tempest*, sung by the airy spirit Ariel to enchant and guide shipwrecked characters.
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C.
song "She Burns"
"She Burns" is a soulful, acoustic-driven song by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance, known for its poetic lyrics and emotive vocal delivery.
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D.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a seminal anti-war folk song, written by Pete Seeger and popularized during the American folk music revival, that poignantly reflects on the cyclical nature of war and loss.
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E.
Fire (song)
"Fire" is a pop-rock song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its anthemic style and emotionally charged lyrics.
- 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: Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire" Target entity description: The Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire" is an early 20th-century American gospel-influenced folk hymn whose melody later became famous as the tune for Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”
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A.
song "Oh Shenandoah"
"Oh Shenandoah" is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, often associated with 19th-century river travel and westward expansion.
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B.
song “Come unto these yellow sands”
“Come unto these yellow sands” is a lyrical song from William Shakespeare’s play *The Tempest*, sung by the airy spirit Ariel to enchant and guide shipwrecked characters.
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C.
song "She Burns"
"She Burns" is a soulful, acoustic-driven song by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance, known for its poetic lyrics and emotive vocal delivery.
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D.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a seminal anti-war folk song, written by Pete Seeger and popularized during the American folk music revival, that poignantly reflects on the cyclical nature of war and loss.
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E.
Fire (song)
"Fire" is a pop-rock song by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its anthemic style and emotionally charged lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American folk song
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gospel-influenced folk hymn ⓘ song ⓘ |
| artist | The Carter Family ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American hymnody
ⓘ
Southern gospel tradition ⓘ |
| composerOfMelodyFor | This Land Is Your Land ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
gospel ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | rural American South ⓘ |
| hasForm | hymn ⓘ |
| hasMelodyUsedIn | This Land Is Your Land ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecordingArtist |
A. P. Carter
ⓘ
Maybelle Carter ⓘ Sara Carter ⓘ |
| hasTuneReusedAs | tune of This Land Is Your Land ⓘ |
| influenced | This Land Is Your Land ⓘ |
| inspiredWorkBy | Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
Christian eschatology
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Judgment Day ⓘ salvation ⓘ |
| melodyBasedOn | When the World’s on Fire ⓘ |
| notableFor | being melodic source for This Land Is Your Land ⓘ |
| performer | The Carter Family ⓘ |
| period | early 20th century ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| style | string-band vocal harmony ⓘ |
| usedMelodyFrom | When the World’s on Fire ⓘ |
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: Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire" Description of subject: The Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire" is an early 20th-century American gospel-influenced folk hymn whose melody later became famous as the tune for Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”
Referenced by (1)
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