The Weary Kind
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"The Weary Kind" is a country ballad written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for the film "Crazy Heart," widely recognized for its poignant portrayal of a washed-up musician's struggles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Weary Kind canonical | 4 |
| "The Weary Kind" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2246041 — 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: The Weary Kind Context triple: [82nd Academy Awards, bestOriginalSongWinner, The Weary Kind]
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A.
This Side of the Blue
"This Side of the Blue" is a song by Joanna Newsom, known for its intricate harp accompaniment and poetic, surreal lyrics.
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B.
My Old Man
"My Old Man" is a reflective folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1971 album *Blue*, exploring themes of love, independence, and emotional vulnerability.
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C.
Ragged Glory
Ragged Glory is a 1990 grunge-influenced rock album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, celebrated for its raw, distorted guitar sound and loose, jam-oriented style.
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D.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
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E.
The Rains Came
The Rains Came is a 1939 American drama film set in India that is renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
- 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: The Weary Kind Target entity description: "The Weary Kind" is a country ballad written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for the film "Crazy Heart," widely recognized for its poignant portrayal of a washed-up musician's struggles.
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A.
This Side of the Blue
"This Side of the Blue" is a song by Joanna Newsom, known for its intricate harp accompaniment and poetic, surreal lyrics.
-
B.
My Old Man
"My Old Man" is a reflective folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1971 album *Blue*, exploring themes of love, independence, and emotional vulnerability.
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C.
Ragged Glory
Ragged Glory is a 1990 grunge-influenced rock album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, celebrated for its raw, distorted guitar sound and loose, jam-oriented style.
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D.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
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E.
The Rains Came
The Rains Came is a 1939 American drama film set in India that is renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Ryan Bingham
ⓘ
T Bone Burnett ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Song
ⓘ
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song ⓘ Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media ⓘ |
| composer |
Ryan Bingham
ⓘ
T Bone Burnett ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredInFilm | Crazy Heart ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
country ballad ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecognition | widely recognized for its poignant portrayal of a washed-up musician's struggles ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ryan Bingham ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | Ryan Bingham ⓘ |
| partOfSoundtrack | Crazy Heart ⓘ |
| performedByCharacter | Bad Blake ⓘ |
| producer | T Bone Burnett ⓘ |
| recordLabel | New West Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| theme |
addiction
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ struggles of a washed-up musician ⓘ |
| usedAs | theme song of Crazy Heart ⓘ |
| writtenFor | Crazy Heart ⓘ |
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: The Weary Kind Description of subject: "The Weary Kind" is a country ballad written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for the film "Crazy Heart," widely recognized for its poignant portrayal of a washed-up musician's struggles.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Weary Kind