Hazy Davy
E784495
Hazy Davy is a wild, free-spirited character from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Spirit in the Night,” known for his reckless energy and surreal nighttime adventures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hazy Davy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9198636 — 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: Hazy Davy Context triple: [Spirit in the Night, narrativeCharacters, Hazy Davy]
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A.
Jebediah
Jebediah is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, often associated with rustic or old-fashioned American usage and commonly shortened to "Jeb."
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B.
Huggy Bear
Huggy Bear is a streetwise, well-connected informant and bar owner who serves as a key ally to the titular detectives in the television series "Starsky & Hutch."
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C.
Happy Hinds
Happy Hinds is the child of American R&B and soul singer-songwriter Macy Gray.
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D.
The Drunks
The Drunks is an alternate title for Diego Velázquez’s early Baroque painting "The Triumph of Bacchus," which depicts the Roman god of wine surrounded by revelers.
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E.
Gypsy Dave
Gypsy Dave was a close friend, collaborator, and traveling companion of Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, often associated with the 1960s folk scene.
- 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: Hazy Davy Target entity description: Hazy Davy is a wild, free-spirited character from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Spirit in the Night,” known for his reckless energy and surreal nighttime adventures.
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A.
Jebediah
Jebediah is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, often associated with rustic or old-fashioned American usage and commonly shortened to "Jeb."
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B.
Huggy Bear
Huggy Bear is a streetwise, well-connected informant and bar owner who serves as a key ally to the titular detectives in the television series "Starsky & Hutch."
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C.
Happy Hinds
Happy Hinds is the child of American R&B and soul singer-songwriter Macy Gray.
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D.
The Drunks
The Drunks is an alternate title for Diego Velázquez’s early Baroque painting "The Triumph of Bacchus," which depicts the Roman god of wine surrounded by revelers.
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E.
Gypsy Dave
Gypsy Dave was a close friend, collaborator, and traveling companion of Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, often associated with the 1960s folk scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
song character ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | song lyrics ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
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Spirit in the Night ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | New Jersey music scene ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
escapism
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ surreal nighttime adventure ⓘ youthful rebellion ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| describedAs |
free-spirited
ⓘ
reckless ⓘ wild ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDateOfContainingWork | 1973 ⓘ |
| genreOfContainingWork |
heartland rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | American 1970s youth culture ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
adventurous
ⓘ
reckless energy ⓘ surreal ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | interpretive analyses of Bruce Springsteen lyrics ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
friend of the narrator
ⓘ
member of a group of nighttime revelers ⓘ |
| partOfDiscography | Bruce Springsteen discography ⓘ |
| recordLabelOfContainingWork | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| settingOfAdventures | Greasy Lake ⓘ |
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: Hazy Davy Description of subject: Hazy Davy is a wild, free-spirited character from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Spirit in the Night,” known for his reckless energy and surreal nighttime adventures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.