Dry Lightning
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"Dry Lightning" is a somber, narrative-driven song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1995 album *The Ghost of Tom Joad*, reflecting themes of loneliness, memory, and emotional desolation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dry Lightning canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921492 — 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: Dry Lightning Context triple: [The Ghost of Tom Joad, hasTrack, Dry Lightning]
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A.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt is a 2013 studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, known for its blend of hard rock energy and reflective, melodic songwriting.
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B.
No Rain
"No Rain" is a 1992 alternative rock song by Blind Melon, best known for its catchy melody and iconic "bee girl" music video.
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C.
Buckets of Rain
"Buckets of Rain" is a gentle, acoustic folk song by Bob Dylan, noted for its bittersweet, understated reflection on love and resilience and serving as the closing track on his acclaimed album *Blood on the Tracks*.
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D.
What the Thunder Said
"What the Thunder Said" is the apocalyptic, spiritually charged final section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem "The Waste Land," culminating its themes of desolation and the search for renewal.
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E.
Red Rain
"Red Rain" is a 1986 art rock song by Peter Gabriel, known for its atmospheric production, vivid apocalyptic imagery, and role as the opening track on his acclaimed album *So*.
- 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: Dry Lightning Target entity description: "Dry Lightning" is a somber, narrative-driven song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1995 album *The Ghost of Tom Joad*, reflecting themes of loneliness, memory, and emotional desolation.
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A.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt is a 2013 studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, known for its blend of hard rock energy and reflective, melodic songwriting.
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B.
No Rain
"No Rain" is a 1992 alternative rock song by Blind Melon, best known for its catchy melody and iconic "bee girl" music video.
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C.
Buckets of Rain
"Buckets of Rain" is a gentle, acoustic folk song by Bob Dylan, noted for its bittersweet, understated reflection on love and resilience and serving as the closing track on his acclaimed album *Blood on the Tracks*.
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D.
What the Thunder Said
"What the Thunder Said" is the apocalyptic, spiritually charged final section of T. S. Eliot’s modernist poem "The Waste Land," culminating its themes of desolation and the search for renewal.
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E.
Red Rain
"Red Rain" is a 1986 art rock song by Peter Gabriel, known for its atmospheric production, vivid apocalyptic imagery, and role as the opening track on his acclaimed album *So*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| album | The Ghost of Tom Joad ⓘ |
| artist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| associatedAct | E Street Band ⓘ |
| composer | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
Americana
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme |
isolation
ⓘ
lost love ⓘ regret ⓘ |
| hasMood | somber ⓘ |
| hasType | narrative-driven song ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Bruce Springsteen discography
ⓘ
linked to:
Bruce Springsteen
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| medium | studio recording ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| partOf | The Ghost of Tom Joad ⓘ |
| performer | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| producer |
Bruce Springsteen
ⓘ
Chuck Plotkin ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| theme |
emotional desolation
ⓘ
loneliness ⓘ memory ⓘ |
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: Dry Lightning Description of subject: "Dry Lightning" is a somber, narrative-driven song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1995 album *The Ghost of Tom Joad*, reflecting themes of loneliness, memory, and emotional desolation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.