Friend of the Devil
E131692
"Friend of the Devil" is a folk-rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its acoustic sound, storytelling lyrics, and enduring popularity in the band’s live performances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Friend of the Devil canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1159380 — 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: Friend of the Devil Context triple: [Grateful Dead, notableSong, Friend of the Devil]
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A.
The Devil's Playground
The Devil's Playground is a 1976 Australian drama film, written and directed by Fred Schepisi, that explores the sexual and spiritual tensions within a Catholic boys' seminary in the 1950s.
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B.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
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C.
The Devil Finds Work
The Devil Finds Work is a 1976 book-length essay by James Baldwin that blends memoir, film criticism, and social commentary to examine race, representation, and American cinema.
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D.
Devil Without a Cause
Devil Without a Cause is Kid Rock’s breakthrough 1998 studio album that fused rap, rock, and country elements and propelled him to mainstream fame.
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E.
The Devil and Miss Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores the nature of good and evil through the moral dilemmas faced by a small village and a young woman.
- 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: Friend of the Devil Target entity description: "Friend of the Devil" is a folk-rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its acoustic sound, storytelling lyrics, and enduring popularity in the band’s live performances.
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A.
The Devil's Playground
The Devil's Playground is a 1976 Australian drama film, written and directed by Fred Schepisi, that explores the sexual and spiritual tensions within a Catholic boys' seminary in the 1950s.
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B.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
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C.
The Devil Finds Work
The Devil Finds Work is a 1976 book-length essay by James Baldwin that blends memoir, film criticism, and social commentary to examine race, representation, and American cinema.
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D.
Devil Without a Cause
Devil Without a Cause is Kid Rock’s breakthrough 1998 studio album that fused rap, rock, and country elements and propelled him to mainstream fame.
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E.
The Devil and Miss Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores the nature of good and evil through the moral dilemmas faced by a small village and a young woman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Friend of the Devil Description of subject: "Friend of the Devil" is a folk-rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its acoustic sound, storytelling lyrics, and enduring popularity in the band’s live performances.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.