Big Yellow Taxi
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"Big Yellow Taxi" is a 1970 folk-pop protest song by Joni Mitchell, best known for its environmental and anti-urban development themes encapsulated in the line “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big Yellow Taxi canonical | 15 |
| Big Yellow Taxi (2007) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T342055 — 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: Big Yellow Taxi Context triple: [Joni Mitchell, notableSong, Big Yellow Taxi]
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A.
Get Away
"Get Away" is a 1993 R&B single by American singer Bobby Brown, known for its new jack swing style and energetic production.
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B.
Mr. Tambourine Man
"Mr. Tambourine Man" is a landmark 1960s folk-rock song, written and first recorded by Bob Dylan and later popularized by The Byrds, known for its poetic, surreal lyrics and influential sound.
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C.
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a classic folk-rock song by Bob Dylan, renowned for its poignant lyrics and enduring influence across popular music.
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D.
Blowin' in the Wind
"Blowin' in the Wind" is a landmark 1962 protest song by Bob Dylan that became an anthem of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
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E.
I Love You, California
"I Love You, California" is a patriotic song celebrating the landscapes and spirit of California, officially adopted as the state's song.
- 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: Big Yellow Taxi Target entity description: "Big Yellow Taxi" is a 1970 folk-pop protest song by Joni Mitchell, best known for its environmental and anti-urban development themes encapsulated in the line “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
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A.
Get Away
"Get Away" is a 1993 R&B single by American singer Bobby Brown, known for its new jack swing style and energetic production.
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B.
Mr. Tambourine Man
"Mr. Tambourine Man" is a landmark 1960s folk-rock song, written and first recorded by Bob Dylan and later popularized by The Byrds, known for its poetic, surreal lyrics and influential sound.
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C.
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a classic folk-rock song by Bob Dylan, renowned for its poignant lyrics and enduring influence across popular music.
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D.
Blowin' in the Wind
"Blowin' in the Wind" is a landmark 1962 protest song by Bob Dylan that became an anthem of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
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E.
I Love You, California
"I Love You, California" is a patriotic song celebrating the landscapes and spirit of California, officially adopted as the state's song.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| associatedEra | early 1970s protest music ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | environmental movement ⓘ |
| composer | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
became an environmental anthem
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frequently referenced in discussions of urban sprawl ⓘ used in films and television soundtracks ⓘ |
| famousLine | They paved paradise and put up a parking lot ⓘ |
| firstReleaseMedium | studio album ⓘ |
| genre |
folk rock
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folk-pop ⓘ pop ⓘ |
| hasChorus | They paved paradise and put up a parking lot ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy |
Amy Grant
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Bob Dylan ⓘ Counting Crows ⓘ Janet Jackson ⓘ Nena ⓘ The Neighborhood ⓘ |
| hasMetaphor |
paradise as unspoiled nature
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parking lot as symbol of urban development ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Ladies of the Canyon ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | upbeat melody with socially conscious lyrics ⓘ |
| notableFor |
environmental protest lyrics
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line They paved paradise and put up a parking lot ⓘ |
| originalArtist | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| performer | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| recordingYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
cutting down trees for development
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environmental loss due to modernization ⓘ paving green space for parking lots ⓘ |
| theme |
anti-urban development
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commercial development ⓘ environmental degradation ⓘ environmental protest ⓘ environmentalism ⓘ loss of nature ⓘ urbanization ⓘ |
| vocalist | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| writer | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
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: Big Yellow Taxi Description of subject: "Big Yellow Taxi" is a 1970 folk-pop protest song by Joni Mitchell, best known for its environmental and anti-urban development themes encapsulated in the line “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
Referenced by (17)
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