Old Paint
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"Old Paint" is a traditional American folk song popularized in modern times through recordings such as its inclusion on Linda Ronstadt’s 1977 album *Simple Dreams*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Paint canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9300212 — 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: Old Paint Context triple: [Simple Dreams, hasTrack, Old Paint]
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A.
Waste of Paint
"Waste of Paint" is a song by the indie rock band Bright Eyes, featured on their 2002 album *Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground*.
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B.
Instant Vintage
Instant Vintage is the critically acclaimed 2002 debut solo album by American singer, songwriter, and producer Raphael Saadiq, blending neo-soul, R&B, and vintage funk influences.
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C.
Old Put
Old Put is the famous nickname of Israel Putnam, a bold and colorful American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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D.
Old Q
Old Q was the popular nickname of William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, an 18th-century Scottish nobleman notorious in London society for his immense wealth, gambling, and libertine lifestyle.
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E.
Painted
Painted is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by American R&B singer Lucky Daye, known for its modern take on classic soul and richly textured production.
- 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: Old Paint Target entity description: "Old Paint" is a traditional American folk song popularized in modern times through recordings such as its inclusion on Linda Ronstadt’s 1977 album *Simple Dreams*.
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A.
Waste of Paint
"Waste of Paint" is a song by the indie rock band Bright Eyes, featured on their 2002 album *Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground*.
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B.
Instant Vintage
Instant Vintage is the critically acclaimed 2002 debut solo album by American singer, songwriter, and producer Raphael Saadiq, blending neo-soul, R&B, and vintage funk influences.
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C.
Old Put
Old Put is the famous nickname of Israel Putnam, a bold and colorful American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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D.
Old Q
Old Q was the popular nickname of William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, an 18th-century Scottish nobleman notorious in London society for his immense wealth, gambling, and libertine lifestyle.
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E.
Painted
Painted is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by American R&B singer Lucky Daye, known for its modern take on classic soul and richly textured production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk song
ⓘ
traditional American song ⓘ |
| albumReleaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
American West
ⓘ
linked to:
Old West
|
| associatedWithTradition | cowboy song tradition ⓘ |
| collectedAs | traditional song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalStatus | traditional cowboy song standard ⓘ |
| genre | American folk music ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle |
I Ride an Old Paint
ⓘ
I Ride an Old Paint, I Lead an Old Dan ⓘ
linked to:
I Ride an Old Paint
|
| includedOnAlbum | Simple Dreams ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricMention |
cattle
ⓘ
cowboy ⓘ old Dan ⓘ old paint ⓘ range ⓘ trail herding ⓘ |
| notableRecording | Linda Ronstadt – Simple Dreams (1977) ⓘ |
| performanceType | vocal song ⓘ |
| popularizedByRecording | Linda Ronstadt ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Linda Ronstadt
ⓘ
various American folk artists ⓘ |
| subject |
cowboy life
ⓘ
horseback riding ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfOrigin | late 19th century or early 20th century (approximate) ⓘ |
| transmission | oral tradition ⓘ |
| typicalAccompaniment |
folk ensemble
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ |
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: Old Paint Description of subject: "Old Paint" is a traditional American folk song popularized in modern times through recordings such as its inclusion on Linda Ronstadt’s 1977 album *Simple Dreams*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.