The Wicked Messenger
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"The Wicked Messenger" is a song by Bob Dylan from his 1967 album *John Wesley Harding*, noted for its cryptic biblical imagery and sparse folk-rock arrangement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Wicked Messenger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6658347 — 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 Wicked Messenger Context triple: [John Wesley Harding, hasTrack, The Wicked Messenger]
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A.
The Wicked Pavilion
The Wicked Pavilion is a satirical 1954 novel by American writer Dawn Powell that portrays the intertwined lives of New York artists, writers, and social climbers centered around a fashionable Manhattan café.
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B.
The Weak and the Wicked
The Weak and the Wicked is a 1954 British drama film about women in prison, notable for its ensemble cast and social-realist portrayal of female incarceration.
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C.
The Sorceress
The Sorceress is the main antagonist of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, a powerful magic-wielding villain who seeks to steal dragon eggs for her own dark purposes.
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D.
The Shadow Speaker
The Shadow Speaker is a young adult science fantasy novel by Nnedi Okorafor that blends futuristic technology with West African mythology in a coming-of-age story set in a post-apocalyptic Sahara.
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E.
The Intrigue
The Intrigue is a famous 1890 painting by Belgian expressionist James Ensor, known for its grotesque masked figures and satirical depiction of bourgeois society.
- 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 Wicked Messenger Target entity description: "The Wicked Messenger" is a song by Bob Dylan from his 1967 album *John Wesley Harding*, noted for its cryptic biblical imagery and sparse folk-rock arrangement.
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A.
The Wicked Pavilion
The Wicked Pavilion is a satirical 1954 novel by American writer Dawn Powell that portrays the intertwined lives of New York artists, writers, and social climbers centered around a fashionable Manhattan café.
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B.
The Weak and the Wicked
The Weak and the Wicked is a 1954 British drama film about women in prison, notable for its ensemble cast and social-realist portrayal of female incarceration.
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C.
The Sorceress
The Sorceress is the main antagonist of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, a powerful magic-wielding villain who seeks to steal dragon eggs for her own dark purposes.
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D.
The Shadow Speaker
The Shadow Speaker is a young adult science fantasy novel by Nnedi Okorafor that blends futuristic technology with West African mythology in a coming-of-age story set in a post-apocalyptic Sahara.
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E.
The Intrigue
The Intrigue is a famous 1890 painting by Belgian expressionist James Ensor, known for its grotesque masked figures and satirical depiction of bourgeois society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| album | John Wesley Harding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| composer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstReleaseMedium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| genre | folk rock ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
noted for cryptic biblical imagery
ⓘ
noted for sparse folk-rock arrangement ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
bass ⓘ drums ⓘ |
| hasLyricalStyle |
biblical imagery
ⓘ
cryptic lyrics ⓘ |
| hasMusicalKey | A minor ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
acoustic-based arrangement
ⓘ
sparse arrangement ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third person ⓘ |
| hasSongStructure | verse-based form ⓘ |
| hasTempo | medium-fast ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
judgment
ⓘ
messenger motif ⓘ prophecy ⓘ |
| includedIn | Bob Dylan discography ⓘ |
| includedOnSide | Side two of John Wesley Harding ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| partOf | John Wesley Harding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| producer | Bob Johnston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseType | album track ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
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 Wicked Messenger Description of subject: "The Wicked Messenger" is a song by Bob Dylan from his 1967 album *John Wesley Harding*, noted for its cryptic biblical imagery and sparse folk-rock arrangement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.