“Born to Be a Drifter”
E436278
“Born to Be a Drifter” is a song featured on Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s concept album *The Ballad of Calico*.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Born to Be a Drifter | 1 |
| “Born to Be a Drifter” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4371264 — 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: “Born to Be a Drifter” Context triple: [The Ballad of Calico, hasPart, “Born to Be a Drifter”]
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A.
Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler is a collection of autobiographical travel sketches by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, chronicling his journeys and spiritual searching across America and abroad.
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B.
The Street with No Name
The Street with No Name is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by William Keighley, known for its semi-documentary style portrayal of an FBI investigation into an urban crime syndicate.
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C.
Hitchin’ a Ride
"Hitchin’ a Ride" is a song by the American rock band Green Day from their 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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D.
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a 1993 country song by Dwight Yoakam known for its melancholic lyrics and atmospheric, Bakersfield-influenced sound.
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E.
Wandering Stranger
"Wandering Stranger" is a song by Lionel Richie, featured as the B-side to his 1983 hit single "All Night Long (All Night)."
- 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: “Born to Be a Drifter” Target entity description: “Born to Be a Drifter” is a song featured on Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s concept album *The Ballad of Calico*.
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A.
Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler is a collection of autobiographical travel sketches by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, chronicling his journeys and spiritual searching across America and abroad.
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B.
The Street with No Name
The Street with No Name is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by William Keighley, known for its semi-documentary style portrayal of an FBI investigation into an urban crime syndicate.
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C.
Hitchin’ a Ride
"Hitchin’ a Ride" is a song by the American rock band Green Day from their 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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D.
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a 1993 country song by Dwight Yoakam known for its melancholic lyrics and atmospheric, Bakersfield-influenced sound.
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E.
Wandering Stranger
"Wandering Stranger" is a song by Lionel Richie, featured as the B-side to his 1983 hit single "All Night Long (All Night)."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| 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 | studio recording ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
country rock ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
drifting lifestyle
ⓘ
restlessness ⓘ wandering ⓘ |
| hasType | album track ⓘ |
| includedIn | concept album ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
audio recording
ⓘ
vinyl record ⓘ |
| narrativeSetting | Calico, California ⓘ |
| partOf | The Ballad of Calico ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | songs on The Ballad of Calico ⓘ |
| performer | Kenny Rogers and The First Edition ⓘ |
| producer | Kenny Rogers and The First Edition ⓘ |
| recordingArtist |
Kenny Rogers
ⓘ
The First Edition ⓘ |
| title |
Born to Be a Drifter
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linked to:
“Born to Be a Drifter”
|
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: “Born to Be a Drifter” Description of subject: “Born to Be a Drifter” is a song featured on Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s concept album *The Ballad of Calico*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“Born to Be a Drifter”
linked to: “Born to Be a Drifter”