Born to Be Wild
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"Born to Be Wild" is a 1968 hard rock anthem by Steppenwolf widely regarded as one of the defining songs of rock music and biker culture.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Born to Be Wild canonical | 8 |
| "Born to Be Wild" | 1 |
| Born to Be Wild – "heavy metal thunder" | 1 |
| Born to Be Wild – Easy Rider | 1 |
| anthem of motorcycle culture – Born to Be Wild | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172859 — 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: Born to Be Wild Context triple: [Easy Rider, featuresSong, Born to Be Wild]
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A.
Hang On Sloopy
"Hang On Sloopy" is a 1960s rock song by The McCoys that became an enduring anthem closely associated with Ohio and its sports culture.
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B.
Jungleland
Jungleland is an epic, saxophone-driven rock ballad by Bruce Springsteen that closes his 1975 album "Born to Run" with a dramatic, cinematic narrative.
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C.
Rocky Mountain High
Rocky Mountain High is a folk song by John Denver that celebrates the natural beauty and spirit of Colorado and is widely associated with the state's identity.
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D.
Streets of Bakersfield
"Streets of Bakersfield" is a popular country song, famously recorded as a duet by Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens, that helped revive interest in the Bakersfield sound.
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E.
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a landmark 1969 counterculture road movie that helped launch the New Hollywood era with its low-budget, anti-establishment style and iconic performances by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson.
- 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: Born to Be Wild Target entity description: "Born to Be Wild" is a 1968 hard rock anthem by Steppenwolf widely regarded as one of the defining songs of rock music and biker culture.
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A.
Hang On Sloopy
"Hang On Sloopy" is a 1960s rock song by The McCoys that became an enduring anthem closely associated with Ohio and its sports culture.
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B.
Jungleland
Jungleland is an epic, saxophone-driven rock ballad by Bruce Springsteen that closes his 1975 album "Born to Run" with a dramatic, cinematic narrative.
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C.
Rocky Mountain High
Rocky Mountain High is a folk song by John Denver that celebrates the natural beauty and spirit of Colorado and is widely associated with the state's identity.
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D.
Streets of Bakersfield
"Streets of Bakersfield" is a popular country song, famously recorded as a duet by Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens, that helped revive interest in the Bakersfield sound.
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E.
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a landmark 1969 counterculture road movie that helped launch the New Hollywood era with its low-budget, anti-establishment style and iconic performances by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rock anthem
ⓘ
single ⓘ song ⓘ |
| album | Steppenwolf ⓘ |
| artist | Steppenwolf ⓘ |
| bSide | Everybody's Next One ⓘ |
| chartPeakCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 | 2 ⓘ |
| composer | Mars Bonfire ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada–United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Canada–United States relations
|
| decade | 1960s ⓘ |
| featuredIn | soundtrack of Easy Rider ⓘ |
| genre |
hard rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
became an anthem for motorcycle riders
ⓘ
widely used in films, television, and commercials ⓘ |
| hasMusicGenreCharacteristic |
driving rock rhythm
ⓘ
heavy use of distorted electric guitar ⓘ |
| hasNotableLyricTheme |
freedom
ⓘ
motorcycle travel ⓘ rebellion ⓘ |
| hasRecognition | listed among greatest rock songs by multiple publications ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Steppenwolf ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithSubculture |
biker culture
ⓘ
counterculture of the 1960s ⓘ |
| isPartOf | classic rock canon ⓘ |
| isRegardedAs |
an early example of heavy metal
ⓘ
one of the defining songs of rock music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricContainsPhrase | heavy metal thunder ⓘ |
| lyricist | Mars Bonfire ⓘ |
| originalMedium | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| performer | Steppenwolf ⓘ |
| performerNationality | Canadian-American band ⓘ |
| producer | Gabriel Mekler ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1968 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
ABC Records
ⓘ
Dunhill Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1968-06 ⓘ |
| tempo | fast ⓘ |
| title | Born to Be Wild ⓘ |
| usedInFilm | Easy Rider ⓘ |
| writer | Mars Bonfire ⓘ |
| yearOfRelease | 1968 ⓘ |
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: Born to Be Wild Description of subject: "Born to Be Wild" is a 1968 hard rock anthem by Steppenwolf widely regarded as one of the defining songs of rock music and biker culture.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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