“Geordie”
E515333
“Geordie” is a traditional British folk ballad, widely known through Joan Baez’s influential 1960s recording.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5374691 — 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: “Geordie” Context triple: [Joan Baez in Concert, hasPart, “Geordie”]
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A.
Geordie
Geordie is a British hard rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne, best known as the early musical vehicle for singer Brian Johnson before he joined AC/DC.
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B.
Geordie
Geordie is a distinctive English dialect and accent associated primarily with the people of Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding Tyneside area in northeast England.
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C.
Blakie
Blakie is a variant form of the given name Blake, typically used as a nickname or informal alternative.
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D.
Ewen
Ewen is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, commonly associated with Gaelic heritage.
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E.
Ewen
Ewen is a small village in Gloucestershire, England, situated near the source of the River Thames.
- 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: “Geordie” Target entity description: “Geordie” is a traditional British folk ballad, widely known through Joan Baez’s influential 1960s recording.
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A.
Geordie
Geordie is a British hard rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne, best known as the early musical vehicle for singer Brian Johnson before he joined AC/DC.
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B.
Geordie
Geordie is a distinctive English dialect and accent associated primarily with the people of Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding Tyneside area in northeast England.
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C.
Blakie
Blakie is a variant form of the given name Blake, typically used as a nickname or informal alternative.
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D.
Ewen
Ewen is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, commonly associated with Gaelic heritage.
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E.
Ewen
Ewen is a small village in Gloucestershire, England, situated near the source of the River Thames.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk song
ⓘ
murder ballad ⓘ traditional British folk ballad ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn | Child Ballads ⓘ |
| childBalladNumber | 209 ⓘ |
| collectedBy | Francis James Child ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | English folk tradition ⓘ |
| dateOfEarliestKnownText | 17th century ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Geordie
ⓘ
Geordie’s wife ⓘ |
| genre |
ballad
ⓘ
folk ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTitle |
Geordie, He’s Gone to Jail
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Geordie, Who’s That At My Window? ⓘ |
| hasForm | strophic song ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
capital punishment
ⓘ
social inequality ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime
ⓘ
execution ⓘ justice ⓘ wrongful conviction ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
American versions of Geordie
ⓘ
English versions of Geordie ⓘ Scottish versions of Geordie ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Anglo-American folk song tradition
ⓘ
traditional British folk repertoire ⓘ |
| influenced | 1960s folk revival repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| motif |
plea for mercy before a judge
ⓘ
public execution ⓘ ransom offered to save condemned man ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableRecordingDate | 1961 ⓘ |
| performancePractice | traditionally sung unaccompanied or with simple accompaniment ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | Joan Baez ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
A. L. Lloyd
ⓘ
Ewan MacColl ⓘ Joan Baez ⓘ June Tabor ⓘ Martin Carthy ⓘ Nic Jones ⓘ |
| recordedOnAlbum |
Joan Baez, Vol. 2
ⓘ
linked to:
album "Joan Baez, Vol. 2"
|
| setting |
England
ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| subjectMatter | a man condemned for alleged theft or poaching ⓘ |
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: “Geordie” Description of subject: “Geordie” is a traditional British folk ballad, widely known through Joan Baez’s influential 1960s recording.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
album "Joan Baez in Concert"
linked to: “Geordie”