Dead Skunk
E541493
"Dead Skunk" is a 1972 novelty folk song by Loudon Wainwright III that became his best-known hit, noted for its humorous lyrics about roadkill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dead Skunk canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5686403 — 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: Dead Skunk Context triple: [Loudon Wainwright III, notableWork, Dead Skunk]
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A.
The Skunk
"The Skunk" is a reflective poem by Seamus Heaney that tenderly portrays marital love and longing through the vivid, nocturnal image of a skunk.
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B.
Better Off Dead
Better Off Dead is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child (co-written with Andrew Child), featuring the iconic drifter ex-military policeman embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy on the U.S.–Mexico border.
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C.
Baghead
Baghead is a 2008 indie horror-comedy film about struggling filmmakers who retreat to a cabin in the woods to write a screenplay, only to encounter a mysterious figure with a bag over their head.
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D.
Dead Horse
"Dead Horse" is a hard rock song by Guns N' Roses, best known as a deep cut from their 1991 album Use Your Illusion I.
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E.
Stinkie
Stinkie is one of the mischievous Ghostly Trio in the 1995 live-action film "Casper," known for his crude humor and prankster personality.
- 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: Dead Skunk Target entity description: "Dead Skunk" is a 1972 novelty folk song by Loudon Wainwright III that became his best-known hit, noted for its humorous lyrics about roadkill.
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A.
The Skunk
"The Skunk" is a reflective poem by Seamus Heaney that tenderly portrays marital love and longing through the vivid, nocturnal image of a skunk.
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B.
Better Off Dead
Better Off Dead is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child (co-written with Andrew Child), featuring the iconic drifter ex-military policeman embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy on the U.S.–Mexico border.
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C.
Baghead
Baghead is a 2008 indie horror-comedy film about struggling filmmakers who retreat to a cabin in the woods to write a screenplay, only to encounter a mysterious figure with a bag over their head.
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D.
Dead Horse
"Dead Horse" is a hard rock song by Guns N' Roses, best known as a deep cut from their 1991 album Use Your Illusion I.
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E.
Stinkie
Stinkie is one of the mischievous Ghostly Trio in the 1995 live-action film "Casper," known for his crude humor and prankster personality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Loudon Wainwright III ⓘ |
| bestKnownHitOf | Loudon Wainwright III ⓘ |
| composer | Loudon Wainwright III ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstReleaseFormat | single ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
folk ⓘ novelty ⓘ |
| hasChorusLine |
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
ⓘ
Stinkin’ to high heaven ⓘ |
| hasNotability | became a surprise hit in the early 1970s ⓘ |
| hasOriginalReleaseCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasSubject | a skunk run over on a road ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Dead Skunk ⓘ |
| hasType | comedic song ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Loudon Wainwright III ⓘ |
| notableFor | humorous lyrics about roadkill ⓘ |
| originalMedium | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| performer | Loudon Wainwright III ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Loudon Wainwright III ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| theme |
bad smells
ⓘ
roadkill ⓘ skunks ⓘ |
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: Dead Skunk Description of subject: "Dead Skunk" is a 1972 novelty folk song by Loudon Wainwright III that became his best-known hit, noted for its humorous lyrics about roadkill.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.