The Ballad of Thunder Road
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"The Ballad of Thunder Road" is a country song performed by Robert Mitchum that narrates the story of a moonshine bootlegger, serving as the theme for the 1958 film "Thunder Road."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ballad of Thunder Road canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9041521 — 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 Thunder Road Context triple: [Thunder Road (1958 film), hasSong, The Ballad of Thunder Road]
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A.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a 2016 short film (later expanded into a 2018 feature) written, directed by, and starring Jim Cummings, following a police officer’s emotional breakdown after his mother’s death.
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B.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
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C.
Last Chance Range
Last Chance Range is a remote mountain range in eastern California’s Mojave Desert, forming part of the rugged terrain near Death Valley and Saline Valley.
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D.
Song of the Dusty Trail
"Song of the Dusty Trail" is a Western-themed song featured in the 1938 singing-cowboy film *Under Western Stars*, starring Roy Rogers.
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E.
Lonesome Road
"Lonesome Road" is a folk song interpreted by Joan Baez on her early album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2," showcasing her distinctive vocal style and traditional repertoire.
- 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 Thunder Road Target entity description: "The Ballad of Thunder Road" is a country song performed by Robert Mitchum that narrates the story of a moonshine bootlegger, serving as the theme for the 1958 film "Thunder Road."
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A.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a 2016 short film (later expanded into a 2018 feature) written, directed by, and starring Jim Cummings, following a police officer’s emotional breakdown after his mother’s death.
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B.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
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C.
Last Chance Range
Last Chance Range is a remote mountain range in eastern California’s Mojave Desert, forming part of the rugged terrain near Death Valley and Saline Valley.
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D.
Song of the Dusty Trail
"Song of the Dusty Trail" is a Western-themed song featured in the 1938 singing-cowboy film *Under Western Stars*, starring Roy Rogers.
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E.
Lonesome Road
"Lonesome Road" is a folk song interpreted by Joan Baez on her early album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2," showcasing her distinctive vocal style and traditional repertoire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
1950s American cinema
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Appalachia ⓘ bootlegging ⓘ car chase theme ⓘ moonshine ⓘ |
| basedOn | Thunder Road (1958 film) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describes | moonshine bootlegger ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | moonshine runner ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
country and western ⓘ |
| hasForm | ballad ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerformer | Robert Mitchum ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Ballad of Thunder Road ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | sound recording ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | narrative ballad ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | illegal liquor running ⓘ |
| partOf |
Thunder Road (1958 film) soundtrack
ⓘ
linked to:
Thunder Road (1958 film)
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| performer | Robert Mitchum ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| setting | rural American South ⓘ |
| themeFor | Thunder Road (1958 film) ⓘ |
| usedAs | film theme song ⓘ |
| vocalist | Robert Mitchum ⓘ |
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 Thunder Road Description of subject: "The Ballad of Thunder Road" is a country song performed by Robert Mitchum that narrates the story of a moonshine bootlegger, serving as the theme for the 1958 film "Thunder Road."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.