Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw
E651836
"Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw" is a well-known Scots love song and poem traditionally attributed to Robert Burns.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw canonical | 1 |
| Of All the Airts the Wind Can Blow | 1 |
| Of a' the airts the wind can blaw | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7246449 — 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: Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw Context triple: [The Scots Musical Museum, containsWork, Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw]
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A.
The Lass o' Ballochmyle
"The Lass o' Ballochmyle" is a romantic Scots-language song and poem by Robert Burns, inspired by a chance encounter with a young woman on the Ballochmyle estate in Ayrshire.
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B.
Old Mortality
Old Mortality is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott that dramatizes the turbulent period of the Covenanters’ struggles in 17th-century Scotland.
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C.
The Kingis Quair
The Kingis Quair is a 15th-century Scots poem, traditionally attributed to King James I of Scotland, that recounts his captivity in England and his courtly love for Joan Beaufort.
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D.
That Lass o' Lowrie's
That Lass o' Lowrie's is a Victorian-era novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett that portrays the harsh lives and moral struggles of English coal-mining communities.
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E.
In the Wind
"In the Wind" is a 1963 folk album by Peter, Paul and Mary that helped popularize the American folk revival with songs like "Blowin' in the Wind."
- 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: Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw Target entity description: "Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw" is a well-known Scots love song and poem traditionally attributed to Robert Burns.
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A.
The Lass o' Ballochmyle
"The Lass o' Ballochmyle" is a romantic Scots-language song and poem by Robert Burns, inspired by a chance encounter with a young woman on the Ballochmyle estate in Ayrshire.
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B.
Old Mortality
Old Mortality is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott that dramatizes the turbulent period of the Covenanters’ struggles in 17th-century Scotland.
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C.
The Kingis Quair
The Kingis Quair is a 15th-century Scots poem, traditionally attributed to King James I of Scotland, that recounts his captivity in England and his courtly love for Joan Beaufort.
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D.
That Lass o' Lowrie's
That Lass o' Lowrie's is a Victorian-era novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett that portrays the harsh lives and moral struggles of English coal-mining communities.
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E.
In the Wind
"In the Wind" is a 1963 folk album by Peter, Paul and Mary that helped popularize the American folk revival with songs like "Blowin' in the Wind."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scots-language song
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poem ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Romantic-era poetry
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Scottish song tradition ⓘ |
| author | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| focusesOn | devotion to a single beloved ⓘ |
| genre |
Scottish folk song
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love song ⓘ |
| hasAddressee | the speaker's beloved ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling |
Of a' the airts the wind can blaw
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linked to:
Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw
|
| hasCulturalSignificance |
frequently performed in Scottish music repertoire
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well-known Scots love song ⓘ |
| hasForm | lyric poem ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later Scottish love songs ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | the speaker ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme |
longing for an absent lover
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romantic love ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish |
Of All the Airts the Wind Can Blow
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linked to:
Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw
|
| isFrequentlyAnthologizedIn | collections of Robert Burns' songs and poems ⓘ |
| language | Scots ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Scottish literature ⓘ |
| lyricist | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| mentionsConcept | the winds from all directions ⓘ |
| meter | song-like stanzaic form ⓘ |
| partOf | Robert Burns song tradition ⓘ |
| setting | Scottish landscape ⓘ |
| writtenInDialect | Scots ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw Description of subject: "Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw" is a well-known Scots love song and poem traditionally attributed to Robert Burns.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw
linked to: Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw