The Delivery Man
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The Delivery Man is a 2004 roots-rock and Americana-influenced album by Elvis Costello and The Imposters that explores dark, narrative-driven themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Delivery Man canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10007078 — 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 Delivery Man Context triple: [Elvis Costello, notableWork, The Delivery Man]
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A.
Special Delivery
"Special Delivery" is a science fiction short story featured within Arthur C. Clarke's collection *The Other Side of the Sky*.
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B.
Special Delivery
"Special Delivery" is a song best known for being sampled in the track "Uproar" by Lil Wayne featuring Swizz Beatz.
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C.
The Barefoot Mailman
The Barefoot Mailman is a 1951 adventure-comedy film starring Terry Moore, set in late 19th-century Florida and centered on the perilous coastal mail route once traveled on foot.
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D.
The Man on the Box
The Man on the Box is a 1925 American silent comedy film, based on Harold MacGrath’s novel, about a mischievous young man who disguises himself as a servant to pursue a romantic interest.
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E.
The Bag Man
The Bag Man is a 2014 neo-noir crime thriller film starring John Cusack and Robert De Niro, centered on a hitman tasked with retrieving a mysterious bag at a remote motel.
- 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 Delivery Man Target entity description: The Delivery Man is a 2004 roots-rock and Americana-influenced album by Elvis Costello and The Imposters that explores dark, narrative-driven themes.
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A.
Special Delivery
"Special Delivery" is a science fiction short story featured within Arthur C. Clarke's collection *The Other Side of the Sky*.
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B.
Special Delivery
"Special Delivery" is a song best known for being sampled in the track "Uproar" by Lil Wayne featuring Swizz Beatz.
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C.
The Barefoot Mailman
The Barefoot Mailman is a 1951 adventure-comedy film starring Terry Moore, set in late 19th-century Florida and centered on the perilous coastal mail route once traveled on foot.
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D.
The Man on the Box
The Man on the Box is a 1925 American silent comedy film, based on Harold MacGrath’s novel, about a mischievous young man who disguises himself as a servant to pursue a romantic interest.
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E.
The Bag Man
The Bag Man is a 2014 neo-noir crime thriller film starring John Cusack and Robert De Niro, centered on a hitman tasked with retrieving a mysterious bag at a remote motel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Elvis Costello & The Imposters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologyPosition |
follows the album "North"
ⓘ
precedes the album "Il Sogno" ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtDepicts | Elvis Costello & The Imposters-related imagery ⓘ |
| criticalReception | generally positive reviews ⓘ |
| featuresVocalPerformanceBy |
Emmylou Harris
NERFINISHED
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Lucinda Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Americana
ⓘ
rock ⓘ roots rock ⓘ |
| hasBackingBand | The Imposters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Bedlam
NERFINISHED
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Button My Lip NERFINISHED ⓘ Country Darkness NERFINISHED ⓘ Either Side of the Same Town NERFINISHED ⓘ Heart Shaped Bruise NERFINISHED ⓘ Monkey to Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Needle Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Nothing Clings Like Ivy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Delivery Man (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Judgement NERFINISHED ⓘ The Name of This Thing Is Not Love NERFINISHED ⓘ The Scarlet Tide NERFINISHED ⓘ There's a Story in Your Voice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| labelMarketingCategory | Americana-influenced rock album ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
dark
ⓘ
story-driven ⓘ |
| notableTrack |
Country Darkness
NERFINISHED
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Heart Shaped Bruise NERFINISHED ⓘ Monkey to Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer |
Elvis Costello
NERFINISHED
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The Imposters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Dennis Herring
NERFINISHED
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Elvis Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingLocation | Oxford, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Lost Highway Records
NERFINISHED
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Mercury Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2004-09-21 ⓘ |
| theme |
crime
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morality ⓘ relationships ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
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 Delivery Man Description of subject: The Delivery Man is a 2004 roots-rock and Americana-influenced album by Elvis Costello and The Imposters that explores dark, narrative-driven themes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.