The Dark End of the Street
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"The Dark End of the Street" is a classic soul ballad, first recorded by James Carr in 1967, that has become a widely covered standard known for its themes of secret love and emotional turmoil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Dark End of the Street canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9300166 — 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 Dark End of the Street Context triple: [Heart Like a Wheel, includesTrack, The Dark End of the Street]
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A.
The Dark at the End
The Dark at the End is a horror-thriller novel by F. Paul Wilson that serves as a climactic installment in his long-running Repairman Jack/Adversary Cycle series.
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B.
Footsteps in the Dark
"Footsteps in the Dark" is a smooth, soulful R&B ballad by The Isley Brothers, best known for its mellow groove and for being heavily sampled in later hip-hop music.
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C.
Cities of the Red Night
Cities of the Red Night is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends pirate adventure, occult themes, and dystopian visions in an experimental narrative style.
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D.
The Corner That Held Them
The Corner That Held Them is a 1948 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that portrays several centuries in the life of a medieval English convent through a series of episodic, quietly ironic vignettes.
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E.
City of Ghosts
City of Ghosts is a 2002 neo-noir crime drama film set largely in Cambodia, following a con man entangled in a dangerous underworld scheme.
- 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 Dark End of the Street Target entity description: "The Dark End of the Street" is a classic soul ballad, first recorded by James Carr in 1967, that has become a widely covered standard known for its themes of secret love and emotional turmoil.
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A.
The Dark at the End
The Dark at the End is a horror-thriller novel by F. Paul Wilson that serves as a climactic installment in his long-running Repairman Jack/Adversary Cycle series.
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B.
Footsteps in the Dark
"Footsteps in the Dark" is a smooth, soulful R&B ballad by The Isley Brothers, best known for its mellow groove and for being heavily sampled in later hip-hop music.
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C.
Cities of the Red Night
Cities of the Red Night is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends pirate adventure, occult themes, and dystopian visions in an experimental narrative style.
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D.
The Corner That Held Them
The Corner That Held Them is a 1948 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that portrays several centuries in the life of a medieval English convent through a series of episodic, quietly ironic vignettes.
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E.
City of Ghosts
City of Ghosts is a 2002 neo-noir crime drama film set largely in Cambodia, following a con man entangled in a dangerous underworld scheme.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| composer | Dan Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| describedAs |
classic soul standard
ⓘ
widely covered standard ⓘ |
| firstRecordedBy | James Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | ballad ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy |
Aretha Franklin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bruce Springsteen NERFINISHED ⓘ Cat Power NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvis Costello NERFINISHED ⓘ Gregg Allman NERFINISHED ⓘ James & Bobby Purify NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Tex NERFINISHED ⓘ Linda Ronstadt NERFINISHED ⓘ Percy Sledge NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard and Linda Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ Ry Cooder NERFINISHED ⓘ The Commitments NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flying Burrito Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
Southern soul music
ⓘ
country soul repertoire ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional pain
ⓘ
regret ⓘ romantic conflict ⓘ secrecy ⓘ |
| isConsidered | one of James Carr's signature songs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Chips Moman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dan Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
themes of emotional turmoil
ⓘ
themes of secret love ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | James Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPerformerGenre | deep soul ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| performer | James Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | 1967 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
adultery
ⓘ
forbidden love ⓘ guilt ⓘ |
| tempo | slow ⓘ |
| writer |
Chips Moman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dan Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Dark End of the Street Description of subject: "The Dark End of the Street" is a classic soul ballad, first recorded by James Carr in 1967, that has become a widely covered standard known for its themes of secret love and emotional turmoil.
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