Wooden Ships
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"Wooden Ships" is a classic late-1960s counterculture rock song, co-written by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Paul Kantner, that imagines survivors escaping a nuclear apocalypse by sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wooden Ships canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2011168 — 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: Wooden Ships Context triple: [Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, notableSong, Wooden Ships]
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A.
Viking ship
A Viking ship is a long, narrow, and fast wooden seafaring vessel used by Norse sailors for trade, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age.
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B.
Lady Ships
Lady Ships is the distinctive, adults-only cruise ship fleet concept used by Virgin Voyages across its branded vessels.
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C.
Marble Boat
The Marble Boat is an ornate lakeside pavilion in Beijing’s Summer Palace, built to resemble a stone ship and symbolizing the Qing dynasty’s imperial grandeur.
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D.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
Seafar Wood
Seafar Wood is a local nature reserve in Cumbernauld, Scotland, known for its woodland habitats and recreational walking paths.
- 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: Wooden Ships Target entity description: "Wooden Ships" is a classic late-1960s counterculture rock song, co-written by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Paul Kantner, that imagines survivors escaping a nuclear apocalypse by sea.
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A.
Viking ship
A Viking ship is a long, narrow, and fast wooden seafaring vessel used by Norse sailors for trade, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age.
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B.
Lady Ships
Lady Ships is the distinctive, adults-only cruise ship fleet concept used by Virgin Voyages across its branded vessels.
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C.
Marble Boat
The Marble Boat is an ornate lakeside pavilion in Beijing’s Summer Palace, built to resemble a stone ship and symbolizing the Qing dynasty’s imperial grandeur.
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D.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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E.
Seafar Wood
Seafar Wood is a local nature reserve in Cumbernauld, Scotland, known for its woodland habitats and recreational walking paths.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
counterculture song
ⓘ
rock song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
ⓘ
Jefferson Airplane ⓘ |
| associatedSongwriter |
David Crosby
ⓘ
Paul Kantner ⓘ Stephen Stills ⓘ |
| composer |
David Crosby
ⓘ
Paul Kantner ⓘ Stephen Stills ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| firstAlbumAppearance |
Crosby, Stills & Nash (album)
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surface form:
Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969 album)
Volunteers (1969 album) ⓘ |
| genre |
folk rock
ⓘ
psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later anti-war rock songs ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Cold War
ⓘ
surface form:
Cold War era
Vietnam War ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam War era
|
| imagery | sailing away from devastated land ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalPerspective | survivors of nuclear war ⓘ |
| lyricist |
David Crosby
ⓘ
Paul Kantner ⓘ |
| movement | 1960s counterculture ⓘ |
| notableFor |
apocalyptic imagery
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dual well-known versions by different bands ⓘ evocative harmonies ⓘ |
| notableLivePerformance | Woodstock 1969 performance by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ⓘ |
| partOf |
Crosby, Stills & Nash (album)
ⓘ
Volunteers (album) ⓘ |
| performer |
Crosby, Stills & Nash
ⓘ
Jefferson Airplane ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| recordingArtistVersion |
Crosby, Stills & Nash studio version
ⓘ
Jefferson Airplane studio version ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod | late 1960s ⓘ |
| theme |
Cold War anxiety
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anti-war sentiment ⓘ escape by sea ⓘ nuclear apocalypse ⓘ post-apocalyptic survival ⓘ |
| writer |
David Crosby
ⓘ
Paul Kantner ⓘ Stephen Stills ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Wooden Ships Description of subject: "Wooden Ships" is a classic late-1960s counterculture rock song, co-written by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Paul Kantner, that imagines survivors escaping a nuclear apocalypse by sea.
Referenced by (4)
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