Ode to Billy Joe
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Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 American drama film adaptation of Bobbie Gentry’s hit song, exploring the mysterious circumstances surrounding a young man’s suicide in rural Mississippi.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ode to Billy Joe canonical | 2 |
| Ode to Billie Joe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10721928 — 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: Ode to Billy Joe Context triple: [Adam Holender, workedOn, Ode to Billy Joe]
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A.
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.
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B.
Mama River
The Mama River is a significant tributary in eastern Siberia that flows through remote regions of Russia before joining the Vitim River.
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C.
Lonesome Tree
"Lonesome Tree" is the opening theme song associated with the classic American Western television series *The Virginian*.
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D.
Shotgun Blues
"Shotgun Blues" is a hard rock song by Guns N' Roses, featured on their 1991 album Use Your Illusion II.
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E.
Me and Bobby McGee
"Me and Bobby McGee" is a classic country-rock song, written by Kris Kristofferson and famously popularized by Janis Joplin, that tells a bittersweet story of love, freedom, and loss on the open road.
- 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: Ode to Billy Joe Target entity description: Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 American drama film adaptation of Bobbie Gentry’s hit song, exploring the mysterious circumstances surrounding a young man’s suicide in rural Mississippi.
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A.
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.
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B.
Mama River
The Mama River is a significant tributary in eastern Siberia that flows through remote regions of Russia before joining the Vitim River.
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C.
Lonesome Tree
"Lonesome Tree" is the opening theme song associated with the classic American Western television series *The Virginian*.
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D.
Shotgun Blues
"Shotgun Blues" is a hard rock song by Guns N' Roses, featured on their 1991 album Use Your Illusion II.
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E.
Me and Bobby McGee
"Me and Bobby McGee" is a classic country-rock song, written by Kris Kristofferson and famously popularized by Janis Joplin, that tells a bittersweet story of love, freedom, and loss on the open road.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationType | song adaptation ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Ode to Billie Joe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
song by Bobbie Gentry ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John A. Alonzo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Michel Legrand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Max Baer Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| editor | Tom McDonough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasAlternateSpelling | Ode to Billie Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPosterTagline | What the song didn't tell you, the movie will. ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Billy Joe McAllister
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bobbie Lee Hartley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| narrativeExpansionOf | Ode to Billie Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The film dramatizes the events leading up to Billy Joe McAllister's suicide and its impact on his girlfriend Bobbie Lee and their small Mississippi community. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Max Baer Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Ode Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1976-06-04 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Herman Raucher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Mississippi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
rural Mississippi ⓘ |
| starring |
Glynnis O'Connor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Best NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Hotchkis NERFINISHED ⓘ Robby Benson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sondra Locke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
coming of age
ⓘ
rural Southern life ⓘ social stigma ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
| timePeriodSetting | 1950s ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Billy Joe McAllister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ode to Billy Joe Description of subject: Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 American drama film adaptation of Bobbie Gentry’s hit song, exploring the mysterious circumstances surrounding a young man’s suicide in rural Mississippi.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ode to Billie Joe