Time of the Preacher
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"Time of the Preacher" is the opening song and recurring musical theme from Willie Nelson’s concept album *Red Headed Stranger*, setting the narrative tone of the record.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Time of the Preacher canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2323294 — 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: Time of the Preacher Context triple: [Red Headed Stranger, hasPart, Time of the Preacher]
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A.
The Priest
"The Priest" is a reflective folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1970 album "Ladies of the Canyon."
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B.
The Priest
The Priest is a supporting character in Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote," a friend of the protagonist who often represents conventional wisdom and attempts to bring Don Quixote back to reality.
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C.
The Preacher
"The Preacher" is a classic hard bop jazz composition by pianist and bandleader Horace Silver, known for its catchy, gospel-inflected melody and enduring popularity in the jazz repertoire.
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D.
The Pilgrimage
The Pilgrimage is the English title of Surah Al-Hajj, a chapter of the Qur’an that discusses the rites, significance, and spiritual meaning of the Hajj to Mecca.
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E.
A Time for Mercy
A Time for Mercy is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows small-town lawyer Jake Brigance as he defends a teenager accused of murdering a deputy in a deeply divided Mississippi community.
- 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: Time of the Preacher Target entity description: "Time of the Preacher" is the opening song and recurring musical theme from Willie Nelson’s concept album *Red Headed Stranger*, setting the narrative tone of the record.
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A.
The Priest
"The Priest" is a reflective folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1970 album "Ladies of the Canyon."
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B.
The Priest
The Priest is a supporting character in Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote," a friend of the protagonist who often represents conventional wisdom and attempts to bring Don Quixote back to reality.
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C.
The Preacher
"The Preacher" is a classic hard bop jazz composition by pianist and bandleader Horace Silver, known for its catchy, gospel-inflected melody and enduring popularity in the jazz repertoire.
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D.
The Pilgrimage
The Pilgrimage is the English title of Surah Al-Hajj, a chapter of the Qur’an that discusses the rites, significance, and spiritual meaning of the Hajj to Mecca.
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E.
A Time for Mercy
A Time for Mercy is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows small-town lawyer Jake Brigance as he defends a teenager accused of murdering a deputy in a deeply divided Mississippi community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
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song ⓘ |
| album | Red Headed Stranger ⓘ |
| artist | Willie Nelson ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Red Headed Stranger
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surface form:
Red Headed Stranger (storyline)
|
| composer | Willie Nelson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
country music
ⓘ
outlaw country ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFunction | recurring musical motif ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFunction |
establishes themes of loss and vengeance in Red Headed Stranger
ⓘ
introduces the preacher character in Red Headed Stranger ⓘ |
| hasType | concept album theme song ⓘ |
| includedIn | Willie Nelson discography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Willie Nelson ⓘ |
| medium |
audio recording
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vinyl record ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | sets the narrative tone of the album Red Headed Stranger ⓘ |
| openingTrackOf | Red Headed Stranger ⓘ |
| partOf | Red Headed Stranger ⓘ |
| performer | Willie Nelson ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| recurringThemeIn | Red Headed Stranger ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| trackNumber | 1 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Time of the Preacher Description of subject: "Time of the Preacher" is the opening song and recurring musical theme from Willie Nelson’s concept album *Red Headed Stranger*, setting the narrative tone of the record.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.