The Motorcycle Song
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"The Motorcycle Song" is a humorous folk tune by American singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, known for its rambling storytelling style and playful, absurd lyrics.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Motorcycle Song canonical | 1 |
| The Motorcycle Song (live) | 1 |
| The Motorcycle Song (studio) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9198860 — 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: The Motorcycle Song Context triple: [Arlo Guthrie, notableWork, The Motorcycle Song]
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A.
Travelin' Man
"Travelin' Man" is a 1961 pop song by American singer Ricky Nelson that became one of his biggest hits and a classic of early rock and roll.
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B.
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is a classic American torch song, famously performed by Frank Sinatra, that portrays a late-night barroom confession to a bartender.
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C.
Sweet Marie
Sweet Marie is the titular woman addressed in Bob Dylan’s song “Absolutely Sweet Marie,” serving as the elusive, symbolic love interest at the center of the lyrics.
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D.
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
"Don’t Get Around Much Anymore" is a classic jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington, widely known for its smooth melody and nostalgic lyrics about lost romance and changing social life.
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E.
I Gotta Have a Song
"I Gotta Have a Song" is a soul track by Stevie Wonder featured on his 1970 album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered."
- 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: The Motorcycle Song Target entity description: "The Motorcycle Song" is a humorous folk tune by American singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, known for its rambling storytelling style and playful, absurd lyrics.
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A.
Travelin' Man
"Travelin' Man" is a 1961 pop song by American singer Ricky Nelson that became one of his biggest hits and a classic of early rock and roll.
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B.
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is a classic American torch song, famously performed by Frank Sinatra, that portrays a late-night barroom confession to a bartender.
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C.
Sweet Marie
Sweet Marie is the titular woman addressed in Bob Dylan’s song “Absolutely Sweet Marie,” serving as the elusive, symbolic love interest at the center of the lyrics.
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D.
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
"Don’t Get Around Much Anymore" is a classic jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington, widely known for its smooth melody and nostalgic lyrics about lost romance and changing social life.
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E.
I Gotta Have a Song
"I Gotta Have a Song" is a soul track by Stevie Wonder featured on his 1970 album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy song
ⓘ
single ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Pete Seeger
ⓘ
Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| audiencePerception |
comic highlight of Arlo Guthrie shows
ⓘ
cult favorite ⓘ |
| composer | Arlo Guthrie ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Arlo Guthrie ⓘ |
| firstReleaseFormat | live recording ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
folk ⓘ talking blues ⓘ |
| hasChorus | I don’t want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion |
The Motorcycle Song (live)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Motorcycle Song
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| hasPart | The Significance of the Pickle ⓘ |
| hasStudioVersion |
The Motorcycle Song (studio)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Motorcycle Song
|
| hasSubject |
motorcycle
ⓘ
pickle ⓘ |
| humorStyle |
observational humor
ⓘ
self-deprecating humor ⓘ surreal humor ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | contemporary folk comedy ⓘ |
| intendedEffect |
amusement
ⓘ
audience participation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricCharacteristic |
absurd humor
ⓘ
playful lyrics ⓘ rambling storytelling style ⓘ spoken monologue sections ⓘ |
| lyricist | Arlo Guthrie ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
a man and his motorcycle
ⓘ
a pickle ⓘ |
| notableLine | I don’t want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle ⓘ |
| partOf | Arlo Guthrie’s live repertoire ⓘ |
| performer | Arlo Guthrie ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Arlo Guthrie ⓘ |
| style | storytelling monologue with musical accompaniment ⓘ |
| theme |
everyday objects
ⓘ
freedom ⓘ motorcycles ⓘ nonsense and absurdity ⓘ |
| typicalPerformanceContext |
Arlo Guthrie live concerts
ⓘ
folk music festivals ⓘ |
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: The Motorcycle Song Description of subject: "The Motorcycle Song" is a humorous folk tune by American singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, known for its rambling storytelling style and playful, absurd lyrics.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Motorcycle Song
linked to: The Motorcycle Song