Bob Dylan's Dream
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"Bob Dylan's Dream" is a reflective folk song by Bob Dylan that nostalgically recalls lost youth and friendships, featured on his early 1960s album *The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Dylan's Dream canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4452783 — 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: Bob Dylan's Dream Context triple: [The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, containsSong, Bob Dylan's Dream]
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A.
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan is a 1964 studio album by Bob Dylan that marked a shift from protest songs toward more introspective and personal songwriting.
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B.
Pipe Dream
Pipe Dream is a lesser-known 1955 Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, adapted from John Steinbeck’s works "Sweet Thursday" and "Cannery Row."
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C.
A Dream Within a Dream
"A Dream Within a Dream" is a lyric poem by Edgar Allan Poe that meditates on the illusory nature of reality and the inevitable loss of time and love.
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D.
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan is a 2005 Martin Scorsese–directed documentary film chronicling Bob Dylan’s early career and rise to fame in the 1960s folk and rock scenes.
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E.
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.
- 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: Bob Dylan's Dream Target entity description: "Bob Dylan's Dream" is a reflective folk song by Bob Dylan that nostalgically recalls lost youth and friendships, featured on his early 1960s album *The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan*.
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A.
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan is a 1964 studio album by Bob Dylan that marked a shift from protest songs toward more introspective and personal songwriting.
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B.
Pipe Dream
Pipe Dream is a lesser-known 1955 Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, adapted from John Steinbeck’s works "Sweet Thursday" and "Cannery Row."
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C.
A Dream Within a Dream
"A Dream Within a Dream" is a lyric poem by Edgar Allan Poe that meditates on the illusory nature of reality and the inevitable loss of time and love.
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D.
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan is a 2005 Martin Scorsese–directed documentary film chronicling Bob Dylan’s early career and rise to fame in the 1960s folk and rock scenes.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| album | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Greenwich Village folk scene ⓘ |
| composer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
folk
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folk music ⓘ |
| hasEra | early 1960s ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
voice ⓘ |
| hasMood |
melancholic
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reflective ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
acoustic
ⓘ
solo voice and guitar ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
change over time
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irretrievability of the past ⓘ reminiscence of old friends ⓘ |
| includedOn | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalPerspective | first person ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
friendship
ⓘ
lost youth ⓘ memory ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ passage of time ⓘ |
| partOf |
1960s folk revival
ⓘ
Bob Dylan discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| producer |
John H. Hammond
NERFINISHED
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Tom Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseType | album track ⓘ |
| writer | Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Bob Dylan's Dream Description of subject: "Bob Dylan's Dream" is a reflective folk song by Bob Dylan that nostalgically recalls lost youth and friendships, featured on his early 1960s album *The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.