The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34)
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"The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34)" is a narrative song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin that tells the story of a fictional Depression-era gangster, featured on the 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8538022 — 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: The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34) Context triple: [Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, hasPart, The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34)]
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A.
The Ballad of Sally Rose
The Ballad of Sally Rose is a 1985 concept album by Emmylou Harris that tells a semi-autobiographical, narrative-driven country story inspired in part by her relationship with Gram Parsons.
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B.
Front Parlour Ballads
Front Parlour Ballads is a 2005 acoustic-oriented folk-rock album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson, showcasing his intricate guitar work and storytelling songwriting.
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C.
Johnny Haynes Stand
The Johnny Haynes Stand is a historic, traditionally styled spectator stand at Fulham FC’s Craven Cottage stadium, named in honor of club legend Johnny Haynes.
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D.
Ten Cents a Dance
Ten Cents a Dance is a popular 1930 torch song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, known for its melancholic portrayal of a taxi dancer’s life.
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E.
Ballad of a Thin Man
"Ballad of a Thin Man" is a dark, surreal Bob Dylan song known for its biting critique of clueless establishment figures and its haunting, piano-driven sound.
- 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: The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34) Target entity description: "The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34)" is a narrative song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin that tells the story of a fictional Depression-era gangster, featured on the 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
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A.
The Ballad of Sally Rose
The Ballad of Sally Rose is a 1985 concept album by Emmylou Harris that tells a semi-autobiographical, narrative-driven country story inspired in part by her relationship with Gram Parsons.
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B.
Front Parlour Ballads
Front Parlour Ballads is a 2005 acoustic-oriented folk-rock album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson, showcasing his intricate guitar work and storytelling songwriting.
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C.
Johnny Haynes Stand
The Johnny Haynes Stand is a historic, traditionally styled spectator stand at Fulham FC’s Craven Cottage stadium, named in honor of club legend Johnny Haynes.
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D.
Ten Cents a Dance
Ten Cents a Dance is a popular 1930 torch song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, known for its melancholic portrayal of a taxi dancer’s life.
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E.
Ballad of a Thin Man
"Ballad of a Thin Man" is a dark, surreal Bob Dylan song known for its biting critique of clueless establishment figures and its haunting, piano-driven sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| album | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Elton John Band
ⓘ
linked to:
The Elton John Band
|
| composer | Elton John ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fictionalCharacter | Danny Bailey ⓘ |
| fictionalTimeSpan | 1909–1934 ⓘ |
| genre |
pop rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ orchestration ⓘ piano ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime
ⓘ
death ⓘ gangster life ⓘ public notoriety ⓘ |
| hasType | narrative song ⓘ |
| includedIn | Elton John discography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bernie Taupin ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Bernie Taupin ⓘ |
| medium | studio recording ⓘ |
| musicBy | Elton John ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | fictional gangster ⓘ |
| partOf | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ⓘ |
| performer | Elton John ⓘ |
| producer | Gus Dudgeon ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1973 ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Elton John ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
DJM Records
ⓘ
MCA Records ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | vinyl LP ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
| side | album track (non-single) ⓘ |
| trackOnAlbum | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ⓘ |
| vocalist | Elton John ⓘ |
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: The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34) Description of subject: "The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34)" is a narrative song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin that tells the story of a fictional Depression-era gangster, featured on the 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
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