Coward of the County
E17627
Coward of the County is a popular country song by Kenny Rogers that tells the story of a gentle man pushed to defend his honor and that of his loved one.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coward of the County canonical | 11 |
| "Coward of the County" | 2 |
| 1981 television film Coward of the County | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147810 — 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: Coward of the County Context triple: [Kenny Rogers, notableWork, Coward of the County]
-
A.
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" is a lighthearted romantic show tune from the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *Oklahoma!* that charmingly describes a fanciful horse-drawn carriage ride.
-
B.
The Pride of the Village
"The Pride of the Village" is a short story by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that portrays rural English life through a sentimental tale of love and tragedy.
-
C.
The Minister's Wooing
The Minister's Wooing is an 1859 historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores Calvinist theology, New England society, and women's inner lives in the early 19th century.
-
D.
Buckthorne and His Friends
Buckthorne and His Friends is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection Tales of a Traveller, featuring interconnected tales centered on the character Buckthorne and his social circle.
-
E.
The Great Commoner
The Great Commoner was the popular nickname of William Pitt the Elder, a prominent 18th-century British statesman celebrated for his leadership during the Seven Years' War and his advocacy for parliamentary reform.
- 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: Coward of the County Target entity description: Coward of the County is a popular country song by Kenny Rogers that tells the story of a gentle man pushed to defend his honor and that of his loved one.
-
A.
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" is a lighthearted romantic show tune from the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *Oklahoma!* that charmingly describes a fanciful horse-drawn carriage ride.
-
B.
The Pride of the Village
"The Pride of the Village" is a short story by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that portrays rural English life through a sentimental tale of love and tragedy.
-
C.
The Minister's Wooing
The Minister's Wooing is an 1859 historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores Calvinist theology, New England society, and women's inner lives in the early 19th century.
-
D.
Buckthorne and His Friends
Buckthorne and His Friends is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection Tales of a Traveller, featuring interconnected tales centered on the character Buckthorne and his social circle.
-
E.
The Great Commoner
The Great Commoner was the popular nickname of William Pitt the Elder, a prominent 18th-century British statesman celebrated for his leadership during the Seven Years' War and his advocacy for parliamentary reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| adaptation |
Coward of the County
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
1981 television film Coward of the County
|
| album | Kenny ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Gatlin Boys (fictional antagonists in lyrics) ⓘ |
| associatedGenreMovement | late 1970s country-pop crossover ⓘ |
| chartPosition |
number 1 on Billboard Hot Country Singles chart
ⓘ
number 1 on Canadian RPM Country Tracks ⓘ number 1 on Irish Singles Chart ⓘ number 1 on UK Singles Chart ⓘ number 3 on Billboard Hot 100 chart ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| followedBySingle | Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer ⓘ |
| genre | country ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | no traditional music video (pre-MTV era) ⓘ |
| hasPlotElement |
assault on protagonist's loved one
ⓘ
protagonist avoids fighting due to promise to his father ⓘ protagonist finally fights to defend loved one ⓘ |
| hasRefrain |
"Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done"
ⓘ
"Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man" ⓘ |
| includedIn | Kenny Rogers greatest hits compilations ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 4:20 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Becky
ⓘ
Tommy ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | rural American South ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
moral dilemma of violence versus pacifism
ⓘ
storytelling lyrics ⓘ |
| partOf | album Kenny ⓘ |
| performer | Kenny Rogers ⓘ |
| performerNationality | American ⓘ |
| precededBySingle | You Decorated My Life ⓘ |
| producer | Larry Butler ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | United Artists Records ⓘ |
| relativeOfMainCharacter | Tommy's father ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1979-11 ⓘ |
| sideAOrB | A-side single in many markets ⓘ |
| televisionFilmFormat | made-for-TV movie ⓘ |
| televisionFilmStar | Kenny Rogers ⓘ |
| theme |
courage
ⓘ
family ⓘ honor ⓘ nonviolence ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| vocalist | Kenny Rogers ⓘ |
| writer |
Billy Ed Wheeler
ⓘ
Roger Bowling ⓘ |
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: Coward of the County Description of subject: Coward of the County is a popular country song by Kenny Rogers that tells the story of a gentle man pushed to defend his honor and that of his loved one.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
1981 television film Coward of the County
subject surface form:
Kenneth Ray Rogers
subject surface form:
The Gatlin Boys
this entity surface form:
"Coward of the County"
subject surface form:
The Gatlin Boys
this entity surface form:
"Coward of the County"