Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
E435420
"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" is a 1967 anti-war folk song by Pete Seeger that uses a parable of a reckless military leader to criticize the Vietnam War and blind obedience to authority.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Waist Deep in the Big Muddy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4372620 — 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: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Context triple: [Pete Seeger, notableWork, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy]
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A.
Missin’ Missippi
"Missin’ Missippi" is a song featured on the album *Songs Cycled* by Van Dyke Parks.
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B.
Rollin’ on the River
Rollin’ on the River was a 1970s music-variety television series featuring performances and guest appearances by popular artists, hosted by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition.
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C.
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah is a posthumously released live album by the American rock band Nirvana, compiling concert recordings from various performances between 1989 and 1994.
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D.
Mississippi Girl
"Mississippi Girl" is a 2005 country single by Faith Hill that reflects her small-town roots and marked a return to a more traditional country sound in her career.
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E.
Backwater Blues
"Backwater Blues" is a classic 1927 blues song, widely regarded as one of Bessie Smith’s most powerful and influential recordings.
- 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: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Target entity description: "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" is a 1967 anti-war folk song by Pete Seeger that uses a parable of a reckless military leader to criticize the Vietnam War and blind obedience to authority.
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A.
Missin’ Missippi
"Missin’ Missippi" is a song featured on the album *Songs Cycled* by Van Dyke Parks.
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B.
Rollin’ on the River
Rollin’ on the River was a 1970s music-variety television series featuring performances and guest appearances by popular artists, hosted by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition.
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C.
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah is a posthumously released live album by the American rock band Nirvana, compiling concert recordings from various performances between 1989 and 1994.
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D.
Mississippi Girl
"Mississippi Girl" is a 2005 country single by Faith Hill that reflects her small-town roots and marked a return to a more traditional country sound in her career.
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E.
Backwater Blues
"Backwater Blues" is a classic 1927 blues song, widely regarded as one of Bessie Smith’s most powerful and influential recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-war song
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folk song ⓘ protest song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Vietnam War era ⓘ |
| composer | Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| creator | Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Vietnam War
NERFINISHED
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blind obedience to authority ⓘ military hierarchy ⓘ |
| describes | a reckless military leader leading soldiers into danger ⓘ |
| firstReleaseDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| genre |
anti-war
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folk ⓘ protest song ⓘ |
| hasNotableLine | Waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | first-person narrator soldier ⓘ |
| historicalContext | 1960s American protest movement ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | music recording ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | parable ⓘ |
| performedBy | Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalPosition | anti-war ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| theme |
criticism of blind obedience to authority
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criticism of the Vietnam War ⓘ military recklessness ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Description of subject: "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" is a 1967 anti-war folk song by Pete Seeger that uses a parable of a reckless military leader to criticize the Vietnam War and blind obedience to authority.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.