Reverend Mr. Black
E470070
"Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 folk song popularized by the Kingston Trio that tells a moralistic story about a preacher’s steadfast faith and integrity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reverend Mr. Black canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4790986 — 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: Reverend Mr. Black Context triple: [The Kingston Trio, notableSingle, Reverend Mr. Black]
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A.
Reverend Whitfield
Reverend Whitfield is a minor but pivotal clergyman in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," whose moral failings and secret guilt contrast sharply with his public image of piety.
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B.
Reverend Henry Biggs
Reverend Henry Biggs is the kind-hearted but overworked pastor and central figure in the film "The Preacher's Wife," whose faith and family life are tested until an angel intervenes to help him.
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C.
Reverend Jonas Clarke
Reverend Jonas Clarke was an 18th-century Congregational minister in Lexington, Massachusetts, known for his influential role in the events leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
The Reverend
"The Reverend" is a Christian clerical honorific commonly used to address or refer to ordained ministers or members of the clergy.
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E.
Elder Brewster
Elder Brewster was a senior leader and spiritual adviser of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony, known for his role as a ruling elder in the early New England church.
- 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: Reverend Mr. Black Target entity description: "Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 folk song popularized by the Kingston Trio that tells a moralistic story about a preacher’s steadfast faith and integrity.
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A.
Reverend Whitfield
Reverend Whitfield is a minor but pivotal clergyman in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," whose moral failings and secret guilt contrast sharply with his public image of piety.
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B.
Reverend Henry Biggs
Reverend Henry Biggs is the kind-hearted but overworked pastor and central figure in the film "The Preacher's Wife," whose faith and family life are tested until an angel intervenes to help him.
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C.
Reverend Jonas Clarke
Reverend Jonas Clarke was an 18th-century Congregational minister in Lexington, Massachusetts, known for his influential role in the events leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
The Reverend
"The Reverend" is a Christian clerical honorific commonly used to address or refer to ordained ministers or members of the clergy.
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E.
Elder Brewster
Elder Brewster was a senior leader and spiritual adviser of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony, known for his role as a ruling elder in the early New England church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
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song ⓘ |
| countryChartPeakUS | 8 ⓘ |
| countryChartPeakUSBillAndersonVersion | 13 ⓘ |
| describes |
preacher’s integrity
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preacher’s steadfast faith ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | preacher ⓘ |
| genre |
country music
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folk music ⓘ |
| hasLyricTheme |
Christian faith
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conscience ⓘ moral integrity ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| hasMoral |
each person must face judgment alone
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stand by your convictions ⓘ |
| hasNotableLine |
You got to walk it by yourself
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You got to walk that lonesome valley ⓘ |
| incorporates | traditional gospel song "Lonesome Valley" ⓘ |
| label | Capitol Records ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | story song ⓘ |
| partOf | The Kingston Trio repertoire ⓘ |
| performedBy |
Bill Anderson
ⓘ
Porter Wagoner ⓘ |
| performer | The Kingston Trio ⓘ |
| popChartPeakUS | 8 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1963 ⓘ |
| recordedBy | The Kingston Trio ⓘ |
| writer |
Billy Edd Wheeler
ⓘ
Jerry Leiber ⓘ
linked to:
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Mike Stoller ⓘ |
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: Reverend Mr. Black Description of subject: "Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 folk song popularized by the Kingston Trio that tells a moralistic story about a preacher’s steadfast faith and integrity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.