“Calico Silver”
E436266
“Calico Silver” is a song from Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s concept album *The Ballad of Calico*, which tells stories about life in a Nevada mining town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| “Calico Silver” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4371250 — 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: “Calico Silver” Context triple: [The Ballad of Calico, hasPart, “Calico Silver”]
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A.
The Ballad of Calico
The Ballad of Calico is a 1972 concept album by country-rock group The First Edition that tells interconnected stories about a fictional Nevada mining town.
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B.
Calico Skies
"Calico Skies" is a gentle, acoustic love song by Paul McCartney, featured on his 1997 album *Flaming Pie*.
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C.
The Silver Tree
The Silver Tree is a solo album by Australian musician and Dead Can Dance vocalist Lisa Gerrard, showcasing her ethereal voice and atmospheric, world-fusion soundscapes.
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D.
Six Pieces of Silver
Six Pieces of Silver is a landmark 1956 hard bop jazz album by pianist and composer Horace Silver, noted for its catchy melodies, bluesy grooves, and influential small-group arrangements.
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E.
The Gold and the Blue
The Gold and the Blue is a two-volume memoir by former University of California president Clark Kerr, chronicling the history, politics, and transformation of the UC system in the mid-20th century.
- 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: “Calico Silver” Target entity description: “Calico Silver” is a song from Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s concept album *The Ballad of Calico*, which tells stories about life in a Nevada mining town.
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A.
The Ballad of Calico
The Ballad of Calico is a 1972 concept album by country-rock group The First Edition that tells interconnected stories about a fictional Nevada mining town.
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B.
Calico Skies
"Calico Skies" is a gentle, acoustic love song by Paul McCartney, featured on his 1997 album *Flaming Pie*.
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C.
The Silver Tree
The Silver Tree is a solo album by Australian musician and Dead Can Dance vocalist Lisa Gerrard, showcasing her ethereal voice and atmospheric, world-fusion soundscapes.
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D.
Six Pieces of Silver
Six Pieces of Silver is a landmark 1956 hard bop jazz album by pianist and composer Horace Silver, noted for its catchy melodies, bluesy grooves, and influential small-group arrangements.
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E.
The Gold and the Blue
The Gold and the Blue is a two-volume memoir by former University of California president Clark Kerr, chronicling the history, politics, and transformation of the UC system in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | The Ballad of Calico ⓘ |
| artist | Kenny Rogers and The First Edition ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Kenny Rogers
ⓘ
The First Edition ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| format | stereo ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
country rock ⓘ |
| hasPart |
backing vocals
ⓘ
bass ⓘ drums ⓘ guitars ⓘ keyboards ⓘ lead vocals ⓘ |
| includedIn | The Ballad of Calico track listing ⓘ |
| isPartOfConceptAlbum | The Ballad of Calico ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| musicalArtist |
Kenny Rogers
ⓘ
The First Edition ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Calico, Nevada ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
Western frontier life
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life in a Nevada mining town ⓘ mining community ⓘ |
| partOf | The Ballad of Calico ⓘ |
| performer | Kenny Rogers and The First Edition ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Reprise Records ⓘ |
| sharesConceptWith | other tracks on The Ballad of Calico ⓘ |
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: “Calico Silver” Description of subject: “Calico Silver” is a song from Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s concept album *The Ballad of Calico*, which tells stories about life in a Nevada mining town.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.