Mystery Train
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Mystery Train is a 1989 independent film by Jim Jarmusch that interweaves three offbeat, deadpan-humorous stories set in a Memphis hotel steeped in rock-and-roll lore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mystery Train canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5142844 — 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: Mystery Train Context triple: [Jim Jarmusch, notableWork, Mystery Train]
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A.
Hound Dog
"Hound Dog" is a landmark 1956 rock and roll song, most famously performed by Elvis Presley, that became one of his signature hits and a defining record of early rock music.
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B.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a 1965 Bob Dylan song famed for its rapid-fire, surreal lyrics and its influential cue-card style promotional film often cited as a precursor to the modern music video.
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C.
Folsom Prison Blues
Folsom Prison Blues is a classic country song by Johnny Cash, famous for its gritty prison narrative and iconic line about shooting a man in Reno "just to watch him die."
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D.
Tishomingo Blues
Tishomingo Blues is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends Southern noir, Dixieland jazz, and dark humor in a story of a high-diver entangled with the Dixie Mafia and Civil War reenactors.
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E.
Shotgun Willie
Shotgun Willie is a 1973 country album by Willie Nelson that marked a creative turning point in his career and helped launch the outlaw country movement.
- 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: Mystery Train Target entity description: Mystery Train is a 1989 independent film by Jim Jarmusch that interweaves three offbeat, deadpan-humorous stories set in a Memphis hotel steeped in rock-and-roll lore.
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A.
Hound Dog
"Hound Dog" is a landmark 1956 rock and roll song, most famously performed by Elvis Presley, that became one of his signature hits and a defining record of early rock music.
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B.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a 1965 Bob Dylan song famed for its rapid-fire, surreal lyrics and its influential cue-card style promotional film often cited as a precursor to the modern music video.
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C.
Folsom Prison Blues
Folsom Prison Blues is a classic country song by Johnny Cash, famous for its gritty prison narrative and iconic line about shooting a man in Reno "just to watch him die."
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D.
Tishomingo Blues
Tishomingo Blues is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends Southern noir, Dixieland jazz, and dark humor in a story of a high-diver entangled with the Dixie Mafia and Civil War reenactors.
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E.
Shotgun Willie
Shotgun Willie is a 1973 country album by Willie Nelson that marked a creative turning point in his career and helped launch the outlaw country movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Jim Jarmusch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorOfPhotography | Robbie Müller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
JVC Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Yorker Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Melody London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
Elvis Presley lore
ⓘ
rock and roll culture ⓘ |
| genre |
anthology film
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ drama film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
"A Ghost"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
"Far from Yokohama" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Lost in Space" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Memphis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainLocation | Arcade Hotel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Lurie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure |
interwoven stories
ⓘ
triptych ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ |
| partOf | Jim Jarmusch filmography ⓘ |
| producer |
Jim Jarmusch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jim Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| screenedAt | Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Cinqué Lee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Bracco NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Strummer NERFINISHED ⓘ Masatoshi Nagase NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicoletta Braschi NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Aviles NERFINISHED ⓘ Rufus Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Screamin' Jay Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Buscemi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sy Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Noonan NERFINISHED ⓘ Vondie Curtis-Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Youki Kudoh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
deadpan humor
ⓘ
offbeat tone ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 1980s ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | Elvis Presley song "Mystery Train" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Jim Jarmusch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mystery Train Description of subject: Mystery Train is a 1989 independent film by Jim Jarmusch that interweaves three offbeat, deadpan-humorous stories set in a Memphis hotel steeped in rock-and-roll lore.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.