Different Drum
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"Different Drum" is a 1967 folk-rock song, written by Michael Nesmith and made famous by Linda Ronstadt’s lead vocal with the Stone Poneys, that became their signature hit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Different Drum canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9236775 — 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: Different Drum Context triple: [Stone Poneys, notableWork, Different Drum]
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A.
Drums Across the River
Drums Across the River is a 1954 American Western film featuring frontier conflict between settlers and Native Americans, noted for its action-driven plot and performances by actors like Lyle Bettger.
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B.
Drums in the Night
Drums in the Night is an early expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that explores post–World War I disillusionment and social upheaval in Germany.
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C.
Distant Drums
Distant Drums is a popular country song recorded by American singer Jim Reeves that became a posthumous hit and one of his signature recordings.
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D.
She Bangs the Drums
"She Bangs the Drums" is a seminal indie rock song by The Stone Roses, celebrated as one of the defining tracks of the late-1980s Madchester scene.
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E.
The Sound of Drums
"The Sound of Drums" is a 2007 Doctor Who television episode that reintroduces the Master as a central villain and sets up the series three finale.
- 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: Different Drum Target entity description: "Different Drum" is a 1967 folk-rock song, written by Michael Nesmith and made famous by Linda Ronstadt’s lead vocal with the Stone Poneys, that became their signature hit.
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A.
Drums Across the River
Drums Across the River is a 1954 American Western film featuring frontier conflict between settlers and Native Americans, noted for its action-driven plot and performances by actors like Lyle Bettger.
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B.
Drums in the Night
Drums in the Night is an early expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that explores post–World War I disillusionment and social upheaval in Germany.
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C.
Distant Drums
Distant Drums is a popular country song recorded by American singer Jim Reeves that became a posthumous hit and one of his signature recordings.
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D.
She Bangs the Drums
"She Bangs the Drums" is a seminal indie rock song by The Stone Roses, celebrated as one of the defining tracks of the late-1980s Madchester scene.
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E.
The Sound of Drums
"The Sound of Drums" is a 2007 Doctor Who television episode that reintroduces the Master as a central villain and sets up the series three finale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| composer | Michael Nesmith ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | folk rock ⓘ |
| hasMusicalArtist |
Linda Ronstadt
ⓘ
Stone Poneys ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecognition | considered Stone Poneys’ signature hit ⓘ |
| hasNotableVersionBy |
Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt
ⓘ
linked to:
Stone Poneys
|
| hasOriginalReleaseDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| hasSongwriter | Michael Nesmith ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Different Drum ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalist | Linda Ronstadt ⓘ |
| lyricist | Michael Nesmith ⓘ |
| madeFamousBy | Linda Ronstadt ⓘ |
| notableFor | Linda Ronstadt’s lead vocal ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedAs | single ⓘ |
| partOf | Stone Poneys discography ⓘ |
| performer | Stone Poneys ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| signatureSongOf | Stone Poneys ⓘ |
| vocalPerformanceBy | Linda Ronstadt ⓘ |
| writer | Michael Nesmith ⓘ |
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: Different Drum Description of subject: "Different Drum" is a 1967 folk-rock song, written by Michael Nesmith and made famous by Linda Ronstadt’s lead vocal with the Stone Poneys, that became their signature hit.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.