Acid Western
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Acid Western is a subgenre of Western films that blends frontier settings with surreal, psychedelic, and often countercultural or existential themes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Acid Western canonical | 1 |
| acid Western | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11572320 — 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: Acid Western Context triple: [Western, hasSubgenre, Acid Western]
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Acid Brass
Acid Brass is an art and music project by Jeremy Deller in which traditional British brass bands perform acid house and rave tracks, exploring the intersection of working-class culture and electronic music.
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B.
Acid
"Acid" is a track from the comedy album "...Is It Something I Said?" by Richard Pryor, showcasing his sharp, boundary-pushing stand-up style.
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C.
Americana
Americana is a mid-sized industrial city in the interior of Brazil’s state of São Paulo, known for its textile industry and strong Italian immigrant heritage.
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D.
Americana
Americana is a contemporary music genre that blends elements of country, folk, blues, and roots rock to evoke traditional American musical styles and storytelling.
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E.
Americana
Americana is Don DeLillo’s debut novel, a satirical exploration of American media culture, identity, and the emptiness beneath corporate and consumer life.
- 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: Acid Western Target entity description: Acid Western is a subgenre of Western films that blends frontier settings with surreal, psychedelic, and often countercultural or existential themes.
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A.
Acid Brass
Acid Brass is an art and music project by Jeremy Deller in which traditional British brass bands perform acid house and rave tracks, exploring the intersection of working-class culture and electronic music.
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B.
Acid
"Acid" is a track from the comedy album "...Is It Something I Said?" by Richard Pryor, showcasing his sharp, boundary-pushing stand-up style.
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C.
Americana
Americana is a contemporary music genre that blends elements of country, folk, blues, and roots rock to evoke traditional American musical styles and storytelling.
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D.
Americana
Americana is Don DeLillo’s debut novel, a satirical exploration of American media culture, identity, and the emptiness beneath corporate and consumer life.
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E.
Americana
Americana is a mid-sized industrial city in the interior of Brazil’s state of São Paulo, known for its textile industry and strong Italian immigrant heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western subgenre
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film genre ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
classical Hollywood Western
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linked to:
classical Hollywood cinema
heroic frontier myth ⓘ |
| emergedInPeriod |
1970s
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late 1960s ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
ambiguous morality
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anti‑establishment sentiment ⓘ anti‑hero protagonists ⓘ bleak tone ⓘ countercultural themes ⓘ dreamlike atmosphere ⓘ existential themes ⓘ hallucinatory sequences ⓘ nonlinear narratives ⓘ philosophical undertones ⓘ psychedelic themes ⓘ subversion of Western tropes ⓘ surreal imagery ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
American frontier
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desert landscapes ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
art cinema
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counterculture of the 1960s ⓘ psychedelic culture ⓘ spaghetti Westerns ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
inner psychological states
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metaphysical questions ⓘ |
| oftenExplores |
alienation
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death ⓘ madness ⓘ spiritual quests ⓘ subjective reality ⓘ the end of the frontier myth ⓘ the failure of the American dream ⓘ |
| relatedGenre |
art Western
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psychedelic Western ⓘ revisionist Western ⓘ |
| subgenreOf |
Western film
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psychedelic film ⓘ |
| typicalAntagonist |
corrupt authority
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institutions of power ⓘ |
| typicalProtagonist |
drifter
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outlaw ⓘ spiritual seeker ⓘ |
| usesStyle |
experimental editing
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minimalist dialogue ⓘ symbolic imagery ⓘ unconventional sound design ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Acid Western Description of subject: Acid Western is a subgenre of Western films that blends frontier settings with surreal, psychedelic, and often countercultural or existential themes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.