Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)
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"Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)" is a somber, violin-laced Neil Young song reflecting on the disintegration of his early band, the Rockets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4807713 — 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: Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) Context triple: [Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, hasTrack, Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)]
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A.
The Rocket
The Rocket was an early 19th-century steam locomotive designed by George Stephenson that became famous for winning the 1829 Rainhill Trials and proving the viability of railway transport.
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B.
No Highway in the Sky
No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster-drama film, based on Nevil Shute’s novel, about an eccentric engineer who predicts a catastrophic structural failure in a new airliner.
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C.
Last Flight
"Last Flight" is a posthumously published book compiled from Amelia Earhart’s final journal entries and writings, offering insight into her thoughts and experiences during her pioneering aviation career and ill-fated around-the-world attempt.
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D.
Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, known for its environmental themes and Bruce Dern’s portrayal of a botanist protecting Earth’s last surviving plant life in space.
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E.
Nightflyers
Nightflyers is a science fiction horror novella by George R. R. Martin that follows a doomed space expedition haunted by a mysterious presence aboard a starship.
- 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: Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) Target entity description: "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)" is a somber, violin-laced Neil Young song reflecting on the disintegration of his early band, the Rockets.
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A.
The Rocket
The Rocket was an early 19th-century steam locomotive designed by George Stephenson that became famous for winning the 1829 Rainhill Trials and proving the viability of railway transport.
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B.
No Highway in the Sky
No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster-drama film, based on Nevil Shute’s novel, about an eccentric engineer who predicts a catastrophic structural failure in a new airliner.
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C.
Last Flight
"Last Flight" is a posthumously published book compiled from Amelia Earhart’s final journal entries and writings, offering insight into her thoughts and experiences during her pioneering aviation career and ill-fated around-the-world attempt.
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D.
Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, known for its environmental themes and Bruce Dern’s portrayal of a botanist protecting Earth’s last surviving plant life in space.
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E.
Nightflyers
Nightflyers is a science fiction horror novella by George R. R. Martin that follows a doomed space expedition haunted by a mysterious presence aboard a starship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| album | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | the Rockets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada–United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | the Rockets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresBand | Crazy Horse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country rock
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ violin ⓘ |
| hasLeadVocal | Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 5 minutes ⓘ |
| hasStringArrangement | violin-focused arrangement ⓘ |
| hasStyle | melancholic ballad ⓘ |
| hasSubtitle | Requiem for the Rockets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | Neil Young discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mood | somber ⓘ |
| partOf | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
David Briggs
NERFINISHED
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Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Neil Young with Crazy Horse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Reprise Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| theme |
disintegration of the Rockets
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loss ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ regret ⓘ |
| trackPositionOnAlbum | 7 ⓘ |
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: Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) Description of subject: "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)" is a somber, violin-laced Neil Young song reflecting on the disintegration of his early band, the Rockets.
Referenced by (1)
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