Working in the Coal Mine
E574051
"Working in the Coal Mine" is a rhythm-and-blues song written by Allen Toussaint and originally recorded by Lee Dorsey, known for its catchy depiction of the drudgery of manual labor and later use in various films and television shows.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Working in the Coal Mine canonical | 4 |
| Working in the Coalmine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6152950 — 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: Working in the Coal Mine Context triple: [The Drew Carey Show, musicUsed, Working in the Coal Mine]
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A.
A Beautiful Mine
"A Beautiful Mine" is an instrumental track by RJD2 best known as the iconic opening theme music for the television series Mad Men.
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B.
Miner’s Prayer
"Miner’s Prayer" is a country song featured on Dwight Yoakam’s debut album "Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc."
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C.
Way Down in the Hole
"Way Down in the Hole" is a gospel-influenced song by Tom Waits best known for serving as the opening theme, in various cover versions, to the television series The Wire.
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D.
The Young Miner
"The Young Miner" is a 19th-century rags-to-riches boys' novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
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E.
Miners
Miners is the nickname for the University of Texas at El Paso’s athletic teams, most prominently its NCAA Division I football program.
- 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: Working in the Coal Mine Target entity description: "Working in the Coal Mine" is a rhythm-and-blues song written by Allen Toussaint and originally recorded by Lee Dorsey, known for its catchy depiction of the drudgery of manual labor and later use in various films and television shows.
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A.
A Beautiful Mine
"A Beautiful Mine" is an instrumental track by RJD2 best known as the iconic opening theme music for the television series Mad Men.
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B.
Miner’s Prayer
"Miner’s Prayer" is a country song featured on Dwight Yoakam’s debut album "Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc."
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C.
Way Down in the Hole
"Way Down in the Hole" is a gospel-influenced song by Tom Waits best known for serving as the opening theme, in various cover versions, to the television series The Wire.
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D.
The Young Miner
"The Young Miner" is a 19th-century rags-to-riches boys' novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
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E.
Miners
Miners is the nickname for the University of Texas at El Paso’s athletic teams, most prominently its NCAA Division I football program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Allen Toussaint
ⓘ
Lee Dorsey ⓘ |
| composer | Allen Toussaint ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describes | manual labor ⓘ |
| genre | rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | popular culture depictions of labor ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | song ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | R&B ⓘ |
| hasSubject | coal mining ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
drudgery of work
ⓘ
physical exhaustion ⓘ working-class life ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Working in the Coal Mine ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Allen Toussaint ⓘ |
| medium | music recording ⓘ |
| notableFor | catchy depiction of the drudgery of manual labor ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | Lee Dorsey ⓘ |
| performer | Lee Dorsey ⓘ |
| portrays |
coal miners
ⓘ
hard physical work ⓘ |
| usedIn |
films
ⓘ
television shows ⓘ |
| writer | Allen Toussaint ⓘ |
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: Working in the Coal Mine Description of subject: "Working in the Coal Mine" is a rhythm-and-blues song written by Allen Toussaint and originally recorded by Lee Dorsey, known for its catchy depiction of the drudgery of manual labor and later use in various films and television shows.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Drew Carey Show (TV series) – music
linked to: Working in the Coal Mine
subject linked to:
precedes album Hip Hug-Her