Ship of Fools
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"Ship of Fools" is a reflective, slow-tempo song by the Grateful Dead known for its soulful vocals and themes of regret and missed chances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ship of Fools canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5920450 — 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: Ship of Fools Context triple: [From the Mars Hotel, hasTrack, Ship of Fools]
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A.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
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B.
Nobody’s Fool
"Nobody’s Fool" is a country song written by Hal Bynum, known for its traditional storytelling style and emotional lyricism.
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C.
The Singing Fool
The Singing Fool is a 1928 American musical drama film starring Al Jolson, notable as an early sound feature that helped solidify his status as one of the era’s biggest stars.
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D.
Everybody Plays the Fool
"Everybody Plays the Fool" is a 1972 soul hit best known as The Main Ingredient's signature song, featuring smooth harmonies and a reflective take on heartbreak.
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E.
Just a Fool
"Just a Fool" is a pop ballad duet by Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton that showcases powerful vocals and emotional lyrics about heartbreak.
- 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: Ship of Fools Target entity description: "Ship of Fools" is a reflective, slow-tempo song by the Grateful Dead known for its soulful vocals and themes of regret and missed chances.
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A.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
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B.
Nobody’s Fool
"Nobody’s Fool" is a country song written by Hal Bynum, known for its traditional storytelling style and emotional lyricism.
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C.
The Singing Fool
The Singing Fool is a 1928 American musical drama film starring Al Jolson, notable as an early sound feature that helped solidify his status as one of the era’s biggest stars.
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D.
Everybody Plays the Fool
"Everybody Plays the Fool" is a 1972 soul hit best known as The Main Ingredient's signature song, featuring smooth harmonies and a reflective take on heartbreak.
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E.
Just a Fool
"Just a Fool" is a pop ballad duet by Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton that showcases powerful vocals and emotional lyrics about heartbreak.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| artist | Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| composer | Jerry Garcia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstReleaseAlbum | From the Mars Hotel ⓘ |
| genre |
folk rock
ⓘ
psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasLiveRepertoireRole | ballad in Grateful Dead setlists ⓘ |
| hasLyricsBy | Robert Hunter ⓘ |
| hasMetaphor | ship as symbol of life choices ⓘ |
| hasMood |
introspective
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Jerry Garcia ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | first-person reflection ⓘ |
| isReflective | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Robert Hunter ⓘ |
| notableFor |
emotional depth
ⓘ
live performances by the Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| partOf | From the Mars Hotel ⓘ |
| performedBy | Jerry Garcia ⓘ |
| performer | Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| tempo | slow tempo ⓘ |
| theme |
missed chances
ⓘ
regret ⓘ |
| vocalist | Jerry Garcia ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | soulful vocals ⓘ |
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: Ship of Fools Description of subject: "Ship of Fools" is a reflective, slow-tempo song by the Grateful Dead known for its soulful vocals and themes of regret and missed chances.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“Night Moves” by Bob Seger
subject linked to:
Grateful Dead album "From the Mars Hotel"