Ballad of a Well-Known Gun
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"Ballad of a Well-Known Gun" is a rootsy, country-rock song by Elton John, written with lyricist Bernie Taupin, that tells a gritty outlaw narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ballad of a Well-Known Gun canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8429881 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ballad of a Well-Known Gun Context triple: [Tumbleweed Connection, hasTrack, Ballad of a Well-Known Gun]
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A.
Sound of a Gun
"Sound of a Gun" is a rock song by the American band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, featured on their 2007 album "Baby 81."
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B.
Throw Your Guns
"Throw Your Guns" is a song by the hip hop duo The Firm, featured on their collaborative album "The Firm: The Album."
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C.
Gimme Back My Bullets
Gimme Back My Bullets is a 1976 Southern rock studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd known for its hard-edged sound and marking the band's last record before the addition of the famed "Three Guitar Army" lineup.
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D.
You Can't Get a Man with a Gun
"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" is a comic show tune from the classic Irving Berlin musical *Annie Get Your Gun*, humorously highlighting how the heroine’s sharpshooting skills hinder her romantic prospects.
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E.
My Gun Is Quick
My Gun Is Quick is a hardboiled crime novel featuring private detective Mike Hammer, written by American author Mickey Spillane.
- 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: Ballad of a Well-Known Gun Target entity description: "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun" is a rootsy, country-rock song by Elton John, written with lyricist Bernie Taupin, that tells a gritty outlaw narrative.
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A.
Sound of a Gun
"Sound of a Gun" is a rock song by the American band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, featured on their 2007 album "Baby 81."
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B.
Throw Your Guns
"Throw Your Guns" is a song by the hip hop duo The Firm, featured on their collaborative album "The Firm: The Album."
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C.
Gimme Back My Bullets
Gimme Back My Bullets is a 1976 Southern rock studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd known for its hard-edged sound and marking the band's last record before the addition of the famed "Three Guitar Army" lineup.
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D.
You Can't Get a Man with a Gun
"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" is a comic show tune from the classic Irving Berlin musical *Annie Get Your Gun*, humorously highlighting how the heroine’s sharpshooting skills hinder her romantic prospects.
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E.
My Gun Is Quick
My Gun Is Quick is a hardboiled crime novel featuring private detective Mike Hammer, written by American author Mickey Spillane.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Ballad of a Well-Known Gun Description of subject: "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun" is a rootsy, country-rock song by Elton John, written with lyricist Bernie Taupin, that tells a gritty outlaw narrative.
Referenced by (2)
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