The Wild Rover (song performance)
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The Wild Rover (song performance) is a popular rendition of the traditional Irish folk song, widely associated with Liam Clancy’s influential interpretations in the Irish folk revival.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Wild Rover | 1 |
| The Wild Rover (song performance) canonical | 1 |
| The Wild Rover (traditional song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4373251 — 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 Wild Rover (song performance) Context triple: [Liam Clancy, notableWork, The Wild Rover (song performance)]
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A.
Rhythm on the Range
Rhythm on the Range is a 1936 American musical Western film starring Bing Crosby and Frances Farmer, known for its blend of cowboy romance and popular songs.
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B.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a long, poetic ballad by Bob Dylan, celebrated for its hypnotic lyrics and closing position on his landmark album Blonde on Blonde.
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C.
Flaming Pie
Flaming Pie is a 1997 solo studio album by Paul McCartney that marked a critically acclaimed creative resurgence influenced by his work on The Beatles Anthology.
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D.
Rambling Rose
Rambling Rose is a 1991 American drama film, set in the 1930s South, for which Laura Dern received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for her lead performance.
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E.
One O’Clock Jump
One O’Clock Jump is a classic 1937 swing-era jazz instrumental and signature tune of the Count Basie Orchestra, renowned for its riff-based structure and driving rhythm.
- 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 Wild Rover (song performance) Target entity description: The Wild Rover (song performance) is a popular rendition of the traditional Irish folk song, widely associated with Liam Clancy’s influential interpretations in the Irish folk revival.
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A.
Rhythm on the Range
Rhythm on the Range is a 1936 American musical Western film starring Bing Crosby and Frances Farmer, known for its blend of cowboy romance and popular songs.
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B.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a long, poetic ballad by Bob Dylan, celebrated for its hypnotic lyrics and closing position on his landmark album Blonde on Blonde.
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C.
Flaming Pie
Flaming Pie is a 1997 solo studio album by Paul McCartney that marked a critically acclaimed creative resurgence influenced by his work on The Beatles Anthology.
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D.
Rambling Rose
Rambling Rose is a 1991 American drama film, set in the 1930s South, for which Laura Dern received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for her lead performance.
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E.
One O’Clock Jump
One O’Clock Jump is a classic 1937 swing-era jazz instrumental and signature tune of the Count Basie Orchestra, renowned for its riff-based structure and driving rhythm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work performance
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song performance ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Liam Clancy
ⓘ
The Clancy Brothers ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Wild Rover (traditional song)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wild Rover (song performance)
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| chorusFeature | call-and-response with audience ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation |
Irish diaspora
ⓘ
Irish folk sessions ⓘ Irish pubs ⓘ |
| genre |
Irish folk music
ⓘ
folk music ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole |
Irish drinking song standard
ⓘ
Irish folk revival standard ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
drinking song
ⓘ
repentance ⓘ return home ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | strophic song ⓘ |
| hasNotableInterpretationBy | Liam Clancy ⓘ |
| hasRefrain | “And it’s no, nay, never / No, nay, never, no more” ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatter | a man who vows not to be a rover any more ⓘ |
| influenced | later Irish folk revival performances of “The Wild Rover” ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Irish traditional ballad style ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| meter | 4/4 time ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Liam Clancy ⓘ |
| partOf | Irish folk revival ⓘ |
| performancePractice |
audience sing-along
ⓘ
pub singing ⓘ |
| tempo | moderate ⓘ |
| tradition | Irish traditional music ⓘ |
| typicalInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
banjo ⓘ bodhrán ⓘ tin whistle ⓘ voice ⓘ |
| typicalSetting |
folk club
ⓘ
live concert ⓘ pub performance ⓘ |
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 Wild Rover (song performance) Description of subject: The Wild Rover (song performance) is a popular rendition of the traditional Irish folk song, widely associated with Liam Clancy’s influential interpretations in the Irish folk revival.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Wild Rover (song performance)
linked to: The Wild Rover (song performance)