The Reverend Mr. Black
E518969
"The Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 country-folk song, popularized by The Kingston Trio, that tells a moralistic story about a preacher confronting injustice and personal redemption.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Reverend Mr. Black canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5419981 — 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 Reverend Mr. Black Context triple: [Billy Ed Wheeler, notableWork, The Reverend Mr. Black]
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A.
The Reverend
"The Reverend" is a Christian clerical honorific commonly used to address or refer to ordained ministers or members of the clergy.
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B.
The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton
The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton is a novella by George Eliot that portrays the quiet struggles, moral trials, and domestic hardships of a humble country clergyman.
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C.
Scenes of Clerical Life
Scenes of Clerical Life is a collection of three interlinked short stories by George Eliot that portray the moral and social lives of rural English clergymen and their communities.
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D.
Warden of Barchester Hospital
The Warden of Barchester Hospital is the central clerical official in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Warden," responsible for overseeing the charitable hospital at the heart of the story’s moral and social conflicts.
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E.
The Bells of St. Mary's
The Bells of St. Mary's is a classic 1945 American drama film in which Bing Crosby reprises his role as a kindly priest working with a spirited nun to save their parochial school.
- 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 Reverend Mr. Black Target entity description: "The Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 country-folk song, popularized by The Kingston Trio, that tells a moralistic story about a preacher confronting injustice and personal redemption.
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A.
The Reverend
"The Reverend" is a Christian clerical honorific commonly used to address or refer to ordained ministers or members of the clergy.
-
B.
The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton
The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton is a novella by George Eliot that portrays the quiet struggles, moral trials, and domestic hardships of a humble country clergyman.
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C.
Scenes of Clerical Life
Scenes of Clerical Life is a collection of three interlinked short stories by George Eliot that portray the moral and social lives of rural English clergymen and their communities.
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D.
Warden of Barchester Hospital
The Warden of Barchester Hospital is the central clerical official in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Warden," responsible for overseeing the charitable hospital at the heart of the story’s moral and social conflicts.
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E.
The Bells of St. Mary's
The Bells of St. Mary's is a classic 1945 American drama film in which Bing Crosby reprises his role as a kindly priest working with a spirited nun to save their parochial school.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | preacher ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
country-folk ⓘ folk ⓘ |
| hasLyricalTheme |
injustice
ⓘ
morality ⓘ personal redemption ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
acoustic instrumentation
ⓘ
vocal harmony ⓘ |
| hasNotableVersion | The Kingston Trio recording ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Reverend Mr. Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricSubject |
moral choices
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preacher confronting injustice ⓘ redemption through faith ⓘ |
| medium | 7-inch single ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | story song ⓘ |
| originallyPopularizedBy | The Kingston Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | The Kingston Trio discography ⓘ |
| performer | The Kingston Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1963 ⓘ |
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: The Reverend Mr. Black Description of subject: "The Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 country-folk song, popularized by The Kingston Trio, that tells a moralistic story about a preacher confronting injustice and personal redemption.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.