Jack-A-Roe
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"Jack-A-Roe" is a traditional folk ballad, popularized in modern times by artists such as Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, that tells the story of a woman who disguises herself as a man to follow her lover into danger.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack-A-Roe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5393923 — 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: Jack-A-Roe Context triple: [World Gone Wrong, hasTrack, Jack-A-Roe]
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A.
Badgerline
Badgerline was a major British bus operator that emerged from the privatization of the National Bus Company and later became a core part of the transport group FirstGroup.
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B.
Murphey
Murphey is a less common spelling variant of the surname Murphy, which is of Irish origin.
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C.
Fauske
Fauske is a small Norwegian town and municipality known for its marble quarries and location in the inland part of Nordland county.
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D.
Otis
Otis is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its forests, lakes, and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Otis
Otis is a globally recognized manufacturer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways, known for pioneering vertical transportation technologies.
- 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: Jack-A-Roe Target entity description: "Jack-A-Roe" is a traditional folk ballad, popularized in modern times by artists such as Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, that tells the story of a woman who disguises herself as a man to follow her lover into danger.
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A.
Badgerline
Badgerline was a major British bus operator that emerged from the privatization of the National Bus Company and later became a core part of the transport group FirstGroup.
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B.
Murphey
Murphey is a less common spelling variant of the surname Murphy, which is of Irish origin.
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C.
Fauske
Fauske is a small Norwegian town and municipality known for its marble quarries and location in the inland part of Nordland county.
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D.
Otis
Otis is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its forests, lakes, and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Otis
Otis is a globally recognized manufacturer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways, known for pioneering vertical transportation technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
ⓘ
traditional folk ballad ⓘ |
| belongsToTradition | Anglo-American folk music ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
her lover
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young woman disguised as a man ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | example of gender-disguise ballad in folk tradition ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
ballad
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folk ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
lover following to sea
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testing of love ⓘ woman warrior in disguise ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeForm | story song ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | British Isles folk tradition ⓘ |
| hasStructure | strophic ballad ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cross-dressing disguise
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female bravery ⓘ gender roles ⓘ romantic devotion ⓘ war and danger ⓘ |
| hasVariantName |
Jack Monroe
ⓘ
Jack the Sailor ⓘ Jackaro ⓘ Jackaroe ⓘ Jackaroo ⓘ |
| isPartOfRepertoireOf | Grateful Dead live performances ⓘ |
| isSungInPerspective | third person narrative ⓘ |
| isTraditional | true ⓘ |
| isTransmittedAs | oral tradition song ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| performedBy |
Bob Dylan
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Grateful Dead ⓘ Jerry Garcia ⓘ Joan Baez ⓘ various folk revival artists ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman disguises herself as a man and follows her lover into danger, often to sea or to war. ⓘ |
| popularizedBy |
Bob Dylan
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Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Bob Dylan
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Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfEarliestKnownForm | 19th century (approximate) ⓘ |
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: Jack-A-Roe Description of subject: "Jack-A-Roe" is a traditional folk ballad, popularized in modern times by artists such as Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, that tells the story of a woman who disguises herself as a man to follow her lover into danger.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.