Different Drum written by Michael Nesmith
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"Different Drum" is a 1967 folk-rock song, best known for Linda Ronstadt’s breakout performance with the Stone Poneys and for helping launch her career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Different Drum written by Michael Nesmith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9236798 — 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 written by Michael Nesmith Context triple: [Stone Poneys, songwriterForHit, Different Drum written by Michael Nesmith]
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A.
Grateful Dead album "Terrapin Station"
"Terrapin Station" is a 1977 studio album by the Grateful Dead, noted for its ambitious, suite-like title track and more polished, producer-driven sound.
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B.
Grateful Dead album "Shakedown Street"
"Shakedown Street" is a 1978 studio album by the Grateful Dead that blends rock, disco, and funk influences and includes the fan-favorite title track.
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C.
“Kodachrome” by Paul Simon
“Kodachrome” by Paul Simon is a 1973 pop-rock song, known for its nostalgic lyrics about memory and perception and its bright, guitar-driven sound.
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D.
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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E.
“Patches” by Clarence Carter
“Patches” by Clarence Carter is a 1970 soul song and storytelling ballad about a poor Southern boy’s struggle and perseverance, best known as one of the singer’s signature hits.
- 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 written by Michael Nesmith Target entity description: "Different Drum" is a 1967 folk-rock song, best known for Linda Ronstadt’s breakout performance with the Stone Poneys and for helping launch her career.
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A.
Grateful Dead album "Terrapin Station"
"Terrapin Station" is a 1977 studio album by the Grateful Dead, noted for its ambitious, suite-like title track and more polished, producer-driven sound.
-
B.
Grateful Dead album "Shakedown Street"
"Shakedown Street" is a 1978 studio album by the Grateful Dead that blends rock, disco, and funk influences and includes the fan-favorite title track.
-
C.
“Kodachrome” by Paul Simon
“Kodachrome” by Paul Simon is a 1973 pop-rock song, known for its nostalgic lyrics about memory and perception and its bright, guitar-driven sound.
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D.
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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E.
“Patches” by Clarence Carter
“Patches” by Clarence Carter is a 1970 soul song and storytelling ballad about a poor Southern boy’s struggle and perseverance, best known as one of the singer’s signature hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk rock song
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song ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Linda Ronstadt
NERFINISHED
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Stone Poneys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestKnownVersionArtist | Stone Poneys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestKnownVersionPerformer | Linda Ronstadt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Michael Nesmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | 1960s popular music ⓘ |
| genre | folk rock ⓘ |
| hasLyricist | Michael Nesmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSongwriter | Michael Nesmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject | romantic relationship ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional incompatibility
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independence in relationships ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Different Drum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| helpedLaunchCareerOf | Linda Ronstadt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Linda Ronstadt breakout performance
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early example of folk rock ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy |
Linda Ronstadt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stone Poneys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMedium | recorded music ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| writer | Michael Nesmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 written by Michael Nesmith Description of subject: "Different Drum" is a 1967 folk-rock song, best known for Linda Ronstadt’s breakout performance with the Stone Poneys and for helping launch her career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.