Nebraska
E96037
Nebraska is a stark, acoustic 1982 album by Bruce Springsteen known for its dark, narrative-driven songs about American working-class life and crime.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nebraska canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T312903 — 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: Nebraska Context triple: [Bruce Springsteen, notableWork, Nebraska]
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A.
Nebraska
Nebraska is a landlocked U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its agriculture, prairies, and role as a historic crossroads for westward expansion.
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B.
South Dakota
South Dakota is a largely rural U.S. state known for the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, and its Native American heritage.
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C.
Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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D.
North Dakota
North Dakota is a sparsely populated U.S. state known for its Great Plains landscapes, agricultural economy, and significant oil production from the Bakken formation.
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E.
Montana
Montana is a large, sparsely populated U.S. state in the northern Rocky Mountains known for its expansive wilderness, national parks like Glacier, and wide-open "Big Sky" landscapes.
- 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: Nebraska Target entity description: Nebraska is a stark, acoustic 1982 album by Bruce Springsteen known for its dark, narrative-driven songs about American working-class life and crime.
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A.
Nebraska
Nebraska is a landlocked U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its agriculture, prairies, and role as a historic crossroads for westward expansion.
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B.
South Dakota
South Dakota is a largely rural U.S. state known for the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, and its Native American heritage.
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C.
Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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D.
North Dakota
North Dakota is a sparsely populated U.S. state known for its Great Plains landscapes, agricultural economy, and significant oil production from the Bakken formation.
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E.
Montana
Montana is a large, sparsely populated U.S. state in the northern Rocky Mountains known for its expansive wilderness, national parks like Glacier, and wide-open "Big Sky" landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bruce Springsteen album
ⓘ
studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtDepicts | desolate rural landscape ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| features | minimal instrumentation ⓘ |
| followedBy | Born in the U.S.A. ⓘ |
| follows | The River ⓘ |
| genre |
acoustic rock
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ heartland rock ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Atlantic City
ⓘ
Highway Patrolman ⓘ Johnny 99 ⓘ Mansion on the Hill ⓘ My Father's House ⓘ Nebraska (song) ⓘ Open All Night ⓘ Reason to Believe ⓘ State Trooper ⓘ Used Cars ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 40:50 ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
American working-class life
ⓘ
crime and moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Atlantic City
ⓘ
CHiPs ⓘ
surface form:
Highway Patrolman
Johnny 99 ⓘ Reason to Believe ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 10 ⓘ |
| originalFormat | 4-track cassette demos ⓘ |
| performer | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| positionInDiscography | sixth studio album ⓘ |
| producer | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| recordingLocation |
Colts Neck, New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Bruce Springsteen's home, Colts Neck, New Jersey
|
| recordingPeriod |
1982-01
ⓘ
1982-02 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1982-09-20 ⓘ |
| soundCharacter |
acoustic
ⓘ
stark ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
ⓘ
economic hardship ⓘ isolation ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | solo vocals ⓘ |
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: Nebraska Description of subject: Nebraska is a stark, acoustic 1982 album by Bruce Springsteen known for its dark, narrative-driven songs about American working-class life and crime.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground