Across the Border
E216995
"Across the Border" is a reflective folk-rock song by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of hope, migration, and the search for a better life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Across the Border canonical | 1 |
| Across the Border (live performance) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921493 — 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: Across the Border Context triple: [The Ghost of Tom Joad, hasTrack, Across the Border]
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A.
Frontera
Frontera is a municipality on the Canary Island of El Hierro, Spain, known for its volcanic landscapes, coastal cliffs, and rural character.
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B.
Crossroads of America
Crossroads of America is a nickname for Indianapolis that reflects its historic and contemporary role as a major national transportation and logistics hub.
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C.
Cross the Line
"Cross the Line" is a track from the Japanese rock band Evolver, known for its energetic style and melodic hooks.
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D.
Borders
Borders is a rural region in southern Scotland known for its rolling hills, historic abbeys, and small market towns near the English border.
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E.
The Great Divide
"The Great Divide" is a pop ballad by American singer Rebecca Black that marked a more mature musical direction in her career following her viral debut.
- 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: Across the Border Target entity description: "Across the Border" is a reflective folk-rock song by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of hope, migration, and the search for a better life.
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A.
Frontera
Frontera is a municipality on the Canary Island of El Hierro, Spain, known for its volcanic landscapes, coastal cliffs, and rural character.
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B.
Crossroads of America
Crossroads of America is a nickname for Indianapolis that reflects its historic and contemporary role as a major national transportation and logistics hub.
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C.
Cross the Line
"Cross the Line" is a track from the Japanese rock band Evolver, known for its energetic style and melodic hooks.
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D.
Borders
Borders is a rural region in southern Scotland known for its rolling hills, historic abbeys, and small market towns near the English border.
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E.
The Great Divide
"The Great Divide" is a pop ballad by American singer Rebecca Black that marked a more mature musical direction in her career following her viral debut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
song ⓘ track on studio album ⓘ |
| album | The Ghost of Tom Joad ⓘ |
| artist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| composer | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
family man
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migrant ⓘ |
| hasImagery |
crossing the border at night
ⓘ
fields and rivers ⓘ promised land ⓘ |
| hasLiveVersion |
Across the Border
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Across the Border (live performance)
|
| hasLyricalTone |
hopeful
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ |
| hasMood |
introspective
ⓘ
yearning ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
acoustic-oriented
ⓘ
reflective ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
U.S.–Mexico borderlands region
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S.–Mexico border region
|
| hasSubject |
American dream
ⓘ
economic hardship ⓘ family separation ⓘ immigration ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | experiences of migrants ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| partOf | The Ghost of Tom Joad ⓘ |
| performedBy |
E Street Band
ⓘ
surface form:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
|
| performer | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| producer |
Bruce Springsteen
ⓘ
Chuck Plotkin ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Bruce Springsteen ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseType | album track ⓘ |
| theme |
border crossing
ⓘ
dreams of a new beginning ⓘ escape from hardship ⓘ hope ⓘ migration ⓘ search for a better life ⓘ |
| usedInstrument |
accordion
ⓘ
acoustic guitar ⓘ harmonica ⓘ violin ⓘ |
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: Across the Border Description of subject: "Across the Border" is a reflective folk-rock song by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of hope, migration, and the search for a better life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Across the Border (live performance)