The Pusher
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"The Pusher" is a 1968 rock song by Steppenwolf, best known for its anti-drug message and prominent use in the film Easy Rider.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Pusher canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172860 — 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: The Pusher Context triple: [Easy Rider, featuresSong, The Pusher]
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A.
La Push
La Push is a small coastal community and Quileute tribal village on Washington State’s Pacific coast, known for its rugged beaches, surf, and proximity to Olympic National Park.
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B.
The Man on the Box
The Man on the Box is a 1925 American silent comedy film, based on Harold MacGrath’s novel, about a mischievous young man who disguises himself as a servant to pursue a romantic interest.
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C.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
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D.
The Rudder
The Rudder is a foundational compendium of Eastern Orthodox canon law and church regulations, widely used as an authoritative guide for ecclesiastical discipline and practice.
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E.
The Yard
The Yard is the central campus of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, encompassing its main academic, residential, and ceremonial facilities.
- 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: The Pusher Target entity description: "The Pusher" is a 1968 rock song by Steppenwolf, best known for its anti-drug message and prominent use in the film Easy Rider.
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A.
La Push
La Push is a small coastal community and Quileute tribal village on Washington State’s Pacific coast, known for its rugged beaches, surf, and proximity to Olympic National Park.
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B.
The Man on the Box
The Man on the Box is a 1925 American silent comedy film, based on Harold MacGrath’s novel, about a mischievous young man who disguises himself as a servant to pursue a romantic interest.
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C.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
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D.
The Rudder
The Rudder is a foundational compendium of Eastern Orthodox canon law and church regulations, widely used as an authoritative guide for ecclesiastical discipline and practice.
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E.
The Yard
The Yard is the central campus of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, encompassing its main academic, residential, and ceremonial facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rock song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Steppenwolf ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Steppenwolf ⓘ |
| composer | Hoyt Axton ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| describedAs | anti-drug song ⓘ |
| featuredInFilm | Easy Rider ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| genre |
psychedelic rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasAntiDrugTheme | true ⓘ |
| hasLyricsTheme |
drug dealing
ⓘ
drug use ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| hasNotableUsage | opening sequence of Easy Rider ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
consequences of hard drugs
ⓘ
drug pusher ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Pusher self-link ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Easy Rider
ⓘ
surface form:
Easy Rider soundtrack
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Hoyt Axton ⓘ |
| medium | audio recording ⓘ |
| notableFor | anti-drug message ⓘ |
| originallyWrittenBy | Hoyt Axton ⓘ |
| partOf | Steppenwolf’s repertoire ⓘ |
| performer | Steppenwolf ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Steppenwolf ⓘ |
| usedInSoundtrackOf | Easy Rider ⓘ |
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: The Pusher Description of subject: "The Pusher" is a 1968 rock song by Steppenwolf, best known for its anti-drug message and prominent use in the film Easy Rider.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.