The Cowboy’s Lament
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The Cowboy’s Lament is a traditional American cowboy ballad, best known in its variant form as the classic Western song “Streets of Laredo.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cowboy’s Lament canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12030121 — 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 Cowboy’s Lament Context triple: [My Rifle, My Pony and Me, basedOnSong, The Cowboy’s Lament]
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A.
The Fall of the Cowboy
The Fall of the Cowboy is a late-19th-century painting by American artist Frederic Remington that poignantly depicts the decline of the Old West and the fading era of the cowboy.
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B.
The Cowboy Star
The Cowboy Star is a Western film featuring actress Joan Barclay, typical of the mid-20th-century American B-movie cowboy genre.
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C.
The Last Cowboy Song
"The Last Cowboy Song" is a country ballad that nostalgically reflects on the fading era of the American cowboy, recorded by the Highwaymen supergroup.
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D.
A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done
"A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done" is a 1972 pop song by the American duo Sonny & Cher, known for its Western-themed lyrics and dramatic, cinematic arrangement.
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E.
The Cowboy and the Lady
The Cowboy and the Lady is a 1938 romantic comedy film starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon that earned recognition for its sound recording at the Academy Awards.
- 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 Cowboy’s Lament Target entity description: The Cowboy’s Lament is a traditional American cowboy ballad, best known in its variant form as the classic Western song “Streets of Laredo.”
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A.
The Fall of the Cowboy
The Fall of the Cowboy is a late-19th-century painting by American artist Frederic Remington that poignantly depicts the decline of the Old West and the fading era of the cowboy.
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B.
The Cowboy Star
The Cowboy Star is a Western film featuring actress Joan Barclay, typical of the mid-20th-century American B-movie cowboy genre.
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C.
The Last Cowboy Song
"The Last Cowboy Song" is a country ballad that nostalgically reflects on the fading era of the American cowboy, recorded by the Highwaymen supergroup.
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D.
A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done
"A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done" is a 1972 pop song by the American duo Sonny & Cher, known for its Western-themed lyrics and dramatic, cinematic arrangement.
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E.
The Cowboy and the Lady
The Cowboy and the Lady is a 1938 romantic comedy film starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon that earned recognition for its sound recording at the Academy Awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
My Rifle, My Pony and Me