I Had a King
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"I Had a King" is a folk-influenced song by Joni Mitchell that reflects on a past relationship and changing identities, featured on her debut album.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I Had a King canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2031497 — 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: I Had a King Context triple: [Song to a Seagull, track, I Had a King]
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A.
Tell It to the King
"Tell It to the King" is a memoir by legendary American broadcaster Larry King, in which he recounts his life, career, and behind-the-scenes stories from decades in radio and television.
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B.
Delta King
Delta King is a historic paddlewheel riverboat permanently moored in Old Sacramento, California, that now operates as a boutique hotel, restaurant, and entertainment venue.
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C.
I Just Can’t Wait to Be King
"I Just Can’t Wait to Be King" is a lively, upbeat musical number from Disney’s animated film The Lion King, sung by young Simba as he excitedly imagines his future as king.
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D.
A King in New York
A King in New York is a 1957 satirical comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, critiquing American politics and McCarthyism through the story of an exiled monarch in New York City.
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E.
The King of the Blues
The King of the Blues is the honorific nickname of legendary American blues guitarist and singer B.B. King, renowned for his expressive playing style and influence on modern blues music.
- 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: I Had a King Target entity description: "I Had a King" is a folk-influenced song by Joni Mitchell that reflects on a past relationship and changing identities, featured on her debut album.
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A.
Tell It to the King
"Tell It to the King" is a memoir by legendary American broadcaster Larry King, in which he recounts his life, career, and behind-the-scenes stories from decades in radio and television.
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B.
Delta King
Delta King is a historic paddlewheel riverboat permanently moored in Old Sacramento, California, that now operates as a boutique hotel, restaurant, and entertainment venue.
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C.
I Just Can’t Wait to Be King
"I Just Can’t Wait to Be King" is a lively, upbeat musical number from Disney’s animated film The Lion King, sung by young Simba as he excitedly imagines his future as king.
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D.
A King in New York
A King in New York is a 1957 satirical comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, critiquing American politics and McCarthyism through the story of an exiled monarch in New York City.
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E.
The King of the Blues
The King of the Blues is the honorific nickname of legendary American blues guitarist and singer B.B. King, renowned for his expressive playing style and influence on modern blues music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| albumType | studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| composer | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| featuredOnDebutAlbumOf | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ |
| hasArtistNationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| hasEra | late 1960s ⓘ |
| hasNotableInstrumentation | acoustic guitar ⓘ |
| hasSongwriterRoleOfArtist | singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| hasVocalStyle | solo female vocal ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | Song to a Seagull ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | folk-influenced ⓘ |
| originalMedium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| partOf | Song to a Seagull ⓘ |
| performer | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| producer | David Crosby ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Reprise Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| theme |
changing identities
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past relationship ⓘ personal transformation ⓘ |
| trackRoleOnAlbum | opening track ⓘ |
| writer | Joni Mitchell ⓘ |
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: I Had a King Description of subject: "I Had a King" is a folk-influenced song by Joni Mitchell that reflects on a past relationship and changing identities, featured on her debut album.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.