"My Rifle, My Pony and Me"
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"My Rifle, My Pony and Me" is a classic Western ballad performed by Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in the 1959 film Rio Bravo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" canonical | 2 |
| My Rifle, My Pony and Me | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2657850 — 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: "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" Context triple: [Rio Bravo, featuresSong, "My Rifle, My Pony and Me"]
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A.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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B.
Mama’s Gun
Mama’s Gun is a critically acclaimed neo-soul album by Erykah Badu, known for its warm, live instrumentation and introspective, socially conscious songwriting.
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C.
Sheridan’s Ride
"Sheridan’s Ride" is a famous American Civil War poem by Thomas Buchanan Read that celebrates General Philip Sheridan’s dramatic horseback dash to rally his troops at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
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D.
King of the Cowboys
King of the Cowboys is the famous nickname of Roy Rogers, the iconic American singing cowboy star of mid-20th-century Western films, radio, and television.
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E.
Lords of the Plains
Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
- 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: "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" Target entity description: "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" is a classic Western ballad performed by Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in the 1959 film Rio Bravo.
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A.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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B.
Mama’s Gun
Mama’s Gun is a critically acclaimed neo-soul album by Erykah Badu, known for its warm, live instrumentation and introspective, socially conscious songwriting.
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C.
Sheridan’s Ride
"Sheridan’s Ride" is a famous American Civil War poem by Thomas Buchanan Read that celebrates General Philip Sheridan’s dramatic horseback dash to rally his troops at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
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D.
King of the Cowboys
King of the Cowboys is the famous nickname of Roy Rogers, the iconic American singing cowboy star of mid-20th-century Western films, radio, and television.
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E.
Lords of the Plains
Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western ballad
ⓘ
film song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dean Martin
ⓘ
Ricky Nelson ⓘ |
| basedOnSong |
Settle Down
ⓘ
The Cowboy’s Lament ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuredInFilm | Rio Bravo ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfScene | Howard Hawks ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| filmStudio |
Warner Bros. Entertainment
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| genre |
Western
ⓘ
ballad ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
country
ⓘ
folk ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Paul Francis Webster ⓘ |
| musicBy | Dimitri Tiomkin ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a classic Western ballad from Rio Bravo ⓘ |
| performedBy |
Dean Martin
ⓘ
Ricky Nelson ⓘ |
| recordingYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| sungByCharacter |
Colorado Ryan
ⓘ
Dude ⓘ |
| title |
"My Rifle, My Pony and Me"
self-link
ⓘ
surface form:
My Rifle, My Pony and Me
|
| usedAs | diegetic song in film ⓘ |
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: "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" Description of subject: "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" is a classic Western ballad performed by Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in the 1959 film Rio Bravo.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
My Rifle, My Pony and Me
this entity surface form:
My Rifle, My Pony and Me