Mean Old Man
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"Mean Old Man" is a song featured on the album *October Road* by singer-songwriter James Taylor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mean Old Man canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10956638 — 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: Mean Old Man Context triple: [October Road, hasTrack, Mean Old Man]
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A.
Old Man
"Old Man" is a classic folk-rock song by Neil Young, known for its reflective lyrics about aging and life perspective, originally released on his 1972 album "Harvest."
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B.
Old Man
Old Man is the central, allegorical figure in the work "Purgatory," embodying themes of guilt, suffering, and spiritual reckoning.
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C.
the Old Man
The Old Man is a central, symbolic figure in Ernest Hemingway’s novella "The Old Man and the Sea," representing endurance, dignity, and the human struggle against overwhelming odds.
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D.
Same Old Man
"Same Old Man" is a song by Joanna Newsom from her 2010 album *Have One on Me*, known for its intricate lyrics and distinctive harp-driven folk sound.
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E.
Prior Velho
Prior Velho is a locality in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal, situated near the town of Sacavém and close to Lisbon’s main airport.
- 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: Mean Old Man Target entity description: "Mean Old Man" is a song featured on the album *October Road* by singer-songwriter James Taylor.
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A.
Old Man
"Old Man" is a classic folk-rock song by Neil Young, known for its reflective lyrics about aging and life perspective, originally released on his 1972 album "Harvest."
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B.
Old Man
Old Man is the central, allegorical figure in the work "Purgatory," embodying themes of guilt, suffering, and spiritual reckoning.
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C.
the Old Man
The Old Man is a central, symbolic figure in Ernest Hemingway’s novella "The Old Man and the Sea," representing endurance, dignity, and the human struggle against overwhelming odds.
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D.
Same Old Man
"Same Old Man" is a song by Joanna Newsom from her 2010 album *Have One on Me*, known for its intricate lyrics and distinctive harp-driven folk sound.
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E.
Prior Velho
Prior Velho is a locality in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal, situated near the town of Sacavém and close to Lisbon’s main airport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | October Road ⓘ |
| artist | James Taylor ⓘ |
| composer | James Taylor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creditedTo | James Taylor ⓘ |
| genre |
folk rock
ⓘ
singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| hasArtistRole |
James Taylor as guitarist
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James Taylor as singer ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryArtist | James Taylor ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Mean Old Man ⓘ |
| hasType | album track ⓘ |
| includedIn | discography of James Taylor ⓘ |
| isOnRelease | October Road ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | James Taylor ⓘ |
| medium | studio recording ⓘ |
| musicStyle | soft rock ⓘ |
| partOf | October Road ⓘ |
| performer | James Taylor ⓘ |
| performerNationality | American ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | James Taylor ⓘ |
| vocalType | male vocal ⓘ |
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: Mean Old Man Description of subject: "Mean Old Man" is a song featured on the album *October Road* by singer-songwriter James Taylor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.