Shotgun Willie
E49472
Shotgun Willie is a 1973 country album by Willie Nelson that marked a creative turning point in his career and helped launch the outlaw country movement.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shotgun Willie canonical | 30 |
| Shotgun Willie (title track) | 2 |
| Shotgun Willie (as a band member) | 1 |
| Shotgun Willie (song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T378369 — 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: Shotgun Willie Context triple: [Willie Nelson, album, Shotgun Willie]
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A.
The Highwaymen
The Highwaymen were a country music supergroup formed in the 1980s, best known for uniting legends Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
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B.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
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C.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a 1965 Bob Dylan song famed for its rapid-fire, surreal lyrics and its influential cue-card style promotional film often cited as a precursor to the modern music video.
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D.
I Cain't Say No
"I Cain't Say No" is a humorous and flirtatious song sung by the character Ado Annie in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!.
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E.
Kentucky Route 61
Kentucky Route 61 is a state highway in Kentucky that runs generally north–south, connecting communities such as Hodgenville with other parts of the state.
- 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: Shotgun Willie Target entity description: Shotgun Willie is a 1973 country album by Willie Nelson that marked a creative turning point in his career and helped launch the outlaw country movement.
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A.
The Highwaymen
The Highwaymen were a country music supergroup formed in the 1980s, best known for uniting legends Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
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B.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
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C.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a 1965 Bob Dylan song famed for its rapid-fire, surreal lyrics and its influential cue-card style promotional film often cited as a precursor to the modern music video.
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D.
I Cain't Say No
"I Cain't Say No" is a humorous and flirtatious song sung by the character Ado Annie in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!.
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E.
Kentucky Route 61
Kentucky Route 61 is a state highway in Kentucky that runs generally north–south, connecting communities such as Hodgenville with other parts of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Shotgun Willie Description of subject: Shotgun Willie is a 1973 country album by Willie Nelson that marked a creative turning point in his career and helped launch the outlaw country movement.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shotgun Willie
subject linked to:
Willie
linked to: Shotgun Willie
linked to: Shotgun Willie
subject linked to:
Willie Nelson and Kacey Musgraves
subject linked to:
Phases and Stages (concept album)
subject linked to:
Sister Bobbie Nelson – piano
linked to: Shotgun Willie