Famous Blue Raincoat
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"Famous Blue Raincoat" is a melancholic, narrative song by Leonard Cohen, written as a letter that explores themes of betrayal, regret, and complex love.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Famous Blue Raincoat canonical | 2 |
| Jennifer Warnes – Famous Blue Raincoat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T922683 — 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: Famous Blue Raincoat Context triple: [Leonard Cohen, notableWork, Famous Blue Raincoat]
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A.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a long, poetic ballad by Bob Dylan, celebrated for its hypnotic lyrics and closing position on his landmark album Blonde on Blonde.
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B.
All the Sad Young Men
All the Sad Young Men is a 1926 short story collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald that explores themes of disillusionment, lost love, and the moral decay of the Jazz Age.
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C.
This Side of the Blue
"This Side of the Blue" is a song by Joanna Newsom, known for its intricate harp accompaniment and poetic, surreal lyrics.
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D.
Flaming Pie
Flaming Pie is a 1997 solo studio album by Paul McCartney that marked a critically acclaimed creative resurgence influenced by his work on The Beatles Anthology.
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E.
It Might as Well Be Spring
"It Might as Well Be Spring" is a popular 1945 song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, written for the film "State Fair" and now a standard of the American songbook.
- 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: Famous Blue Raincoat Target entity description: "Famous Blue Raincoat" is a melancholic, narrative song by Leonard Cohen, written as a letter that explores themes of betrayal, regret, and complex love.
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A.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a long, poetic ballad by Bob Dylan, celebrated for its hypnotic lyrics and closing position on his landmark album Blonde on Blonde.
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B.
All the Sad Young Men
All the Sad Young Men is a 1926 short story collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald that explores themes of disillusionment, lost love, and the moral decay of the Jazz Age.
-
C.
This Side of the Blue
"This Side of the Blue" is a song by Joanna Newsom, known for its intricate harp accompaniment and poetic, surreal lyrics.
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D.
Flaming Pie
Flaming Pie is a 1997 solo studio album by Paul McCartney that marked a critically acclaimed creative resurgence influenced by his work on The Beatles Anthology.
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E.
It Might as Well Be Spring
"It Might as Well Be Spring" is a popular 1945 song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, written for the film "State Fair" and now a standard of the American songbook.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| album | Songs of Love and Hate ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist | Jennifer Warnes ⓘ |
| composer | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| creator | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| firstReleaseFormat | studio album track ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersion |
Ariana Gillis cover of Famous Blue Raincoat
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Famous Blue Raincoat self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jennifer Warnes – Famous Blue Raincoat
Joan Baez cover of Famous Blue Raincoat ⓘ Tori Amos cover of Famous Blue Raincoat ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
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subtle orchestration ⓘ voice ⓘ |
| hasLyricsPerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| hasMood |
introspective
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melancholic ⓘ somber ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Famous Blue Raincoat self-link ⓘ |
| includedIn | Leonard Cohen live setlists ⓘ |
| influenced | interpretations of the epistolary song form ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
betrayal
ⓘ
complex love ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ loss ⓘ melancholy ⓘ memory ⓘ regret ⓘ romantic triangle ⓘ |
| lyricist | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | letter to a rival ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | epistolary song ⓘ |
| notableLine |
"Did you ever go clear?"
ⓘ
"It's four in the morning, the end of December" ⓘ "Sincerely, L. Cohen" ⓘ |
| partOf | album Songs of Love and Hate ⓘ |
| performer | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | 1970 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| referencesLocation | Clinton Street ⓘ |
| referencesTime | four in the morning ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
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: Famous Blue Raincoat Description of subject: "Famous Blue Raincoat" is a melancholic, narrative song by Leonard Cohen, written as a letter that explores themes of betrayal, regret, and complex love.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jennifer Warnes – Famous Blue Raincoat