Railroad Boy
E471655
"Railroad Boy" is a traditional folk ballad interpreted and popularized by Joan Baez on her early album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Railroad Boy canonical | 1 |
| The Railroad Boy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4808081 — 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: Railroad Boy Context triple: [Joan Baez, Vol. 2, hasTrack, Railroad Boy]
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A.
The Train Boy
The Train Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches juvenile novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor but determined newsboy striving for success through hard work and integrity.
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B.
The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gordon Parks that portrays an African American boy’s coming-of-age in 1920s Kansas amid racism and moral conflict.
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C.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
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D.
The Railroad Stories
The Railroad Stories is a collection of Yiddish short stories by Sholem Aleichem that vividly portrays the lives, humor, and hardships of Eastern European Jewish travelers and small-town characters.
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E.
The Little American
The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
- 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: Railroad Boy Target entity description: "Railroad Boy" is a traditional folk ballad interpreted and popularized by Joan Baez on her early album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2."
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A.
The Train Boy
The Train Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches juvenile novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor but determined newsboy striving for success through hard work and integrity.
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B.
The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gordon Parks that portrays an African American boy’s coming-of-age in 1920s Kansas amid racism and moral conflict.
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C.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
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D.
The Railroad Stories
The Railroad Stories is a collection of Yiddish short stories by Sholem Aleichem that vividly portrays the lives, humor, and hardships of Eastern European Jewish travelers and small-town characters.
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E.
The Little American
The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
ⓘ
traditional folk ballad ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin |
British Isles
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredOnAlbum |
Joan Baez, Vol. 2
ⓘ
linked to:
album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2"
|
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
traditional folk ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTitle |
The Butcher Boy
ⓘ
The Railroad Boy ⓘ
linked to:
Railroad Boy
The Railroader ⓘ |
| hasForm | narrative ballad ⓘ |
| hasNotableInterpreter |
Doc Watson
ⓘ
Joan Baez ⓘ Judy Collins ⓘ Pete Seeger ⓘ The Carter Family ⓘ |
| hasPerformer | Joan Baez ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
betrayal
ⓘ
suicide ⓘ tragic love ⓘ |
| includedInRepertoireOf | Joan Baez ⓘ |
| isPartOfTradition |
Anglo-American folk music
ⓘ
British Isles ballad tradition ⓘ
linked to:
Border ballads
|
| isPublicDomain | true ⓘ |
| isTraditional | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third person ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | Joan Baez ⓘ |
| recordedInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
lover working on the railroad
ⓘ
young woman abandoned by her lover ⓘ |
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: Railroad Boy Description of subject: "Railroad Boy" is a traditional folk ballad interpreted and popularized by Joan Baez on her early album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2"
linked to: Railroad Boy