A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
E439743
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a landmark early Bob Dylan protest song, noted for its vivid, apocalyptic imagery and powerful social commentary.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall canonical | 3 |
| A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4452778 — 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: A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall Context triple: [The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, containsSong, A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall]
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A.
Fire and Rain
"Fire and Rain" is a 1970 folk-rock song by James Taylor, widely recognized for its introspective lyrics about personal struggle and loss.
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B.
Hard Rain
Hard Rain is a 1998 action-thriller film starring Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman, centered on a heist and manhunt during a catastrophic flood in a small Midwestern town.
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C.
Blowin' in the Wind
"Blowin' in the Wind" is a landmark 1962 protest song by Bob Dylan that became an anthem of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
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D.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a classic soul song, most famously recorded by Marvin Gaye, that became one of Motown's signature hits and a defining track of 1960s American R&B.
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E.
Mr. Tambourine Man
"Mr. Tambourine Man" is a landmark 1960s folk-rock song, written and first recorded by Bob Dylan and later popularized by The Byrds, known for its poetic, surreal lyrics and influential sound.
- 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: A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall Target entity description: "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a landmark early Bob Dylan protest song, noted for its vivid, apocalyptic imagery and powerful social commentary.
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A.
Fire and Rain
"Fire and Rain" is a 1970 folk-rock song by James Taylor, widely recognized for its introspective lyrics about personal struggle and loss.
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B.
Hard Rain
Hard Rain is a 1998 action-thriller film starring Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman, centered on a heist and manhunt during a catastrophic flood in a small Midwestern town.
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C.
Blowin' in the Wind
"Blowin' in the Wind" is a landmark 1962 protest song by Bob Dylan that became an anthem of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
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D.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a classic soul song, most famously recorded by Marvin Gaye, that became one of Motown's signature hits and a defining track of 1960s American R&B.
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E.
Mr. Tambourine Man
"Mr. Tambourine Man" is a landmark 1960s folk-rock song, written and first recorded by Bob Dylan and later popularized by The Byrds, known for its poetic, surreal lyrics and influential sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk song
ⓘ
protest song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| album | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
1960s protest movement
ⓘ
American folk revival ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist | Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
innocence confronted with suffering
ⓘ
journey ⓘ visions of catastrophe ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| describedAs |
landmark early Bob Dylan protest song
ⓘ
one of Bob Dylan's most important early works ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ protest song ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | ballad ⓘ |
| hasQuestionAndAnswerStructure | yes ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | traditional ballad Lord Randall ⓘ |
| label | Columbia Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalStyle |
apocalyptic imagery
ⓘ
surreal imagery ⓘ |
| notableCoverArtist |
Bryan Ferry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edie Brickell NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Mraz NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Baez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePerformanceBy | Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingLine | Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? ⓘ |
| performanceContext | Greenwich Village folk scene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| producer |
John H. Hammond
NERFINISHED
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Tom Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| side | Side 2 ⓘ |
| structureBasedOn | Lord Randall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
civil rights
ⓘ
environmental destruction ⓘ nuclear anxiety ⓘ social commentary ⓘ war and peace ⓘ youthful responsibility ⓘ |
| titlePhrase | A hard rain's a-gonna fall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trackNumberOnAlbum | 7 ⓘ |
| writer | Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall Description of subject: "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a landmark early Bob Dylan protest song, noted for its vivid, apocalyptic imagery and powerful social commentary.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Renaldo and Clara
this entity surface form:
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall