Koko Taylor
E151474
Koko Taylor was a powerhouse American blues singer, celebrated as the "Queen of the Blues" for her raw, gritty vocals and influential Chicago blues recordings.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koko Taylor canonical | 58 |
| Koko Taylor discography | 1 |
| Koko Taylor – lead vocals | 1 |
| lead vocals by Koko Taylor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1249774 — 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: Koko Taylor Context triple: [Blues Hall of Fame, notableInductee, Koko Taylor]
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A.
Dottie West
Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter known for her influential solo career and popular duets, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Gladys Irene Owens
Gladys Irene Owens was the first wife of James Roosevelt II, the eldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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D.
Odetta
Odetta was a pioneering American folk and blues singer whose powerful voice and politically charged repertoire made her a key musical figure in the civil rights movement and the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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E.
Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas is an American soul singer, often called the "Queen of Memphis Soul," known for hits like "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" and her influential recordings with Stax Records.
- 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: Koko Taylor Target entity description: Koko Taylor was a powerhouse American blues singer, celebrated as the "Queen of the Blues" for her raw, gritty vocals and influential Chicago blues recordings.
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A.
Dottie West
Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter known for her influential solo career and popular duets, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Gladys Irene Owens
Gladys Irene Owens was the first wife of James Roosevelt II, the eldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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D.
Odetta
Odetta was a pioneering American folk and blues singer whose powerful voice and politically charged repertoire made her a key musical figure in the civil rights movement and the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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E.
Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas is an American soul singer, often called the "Queen of Memphis Soul," known for hits like "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" and her influential recordings with Stax Records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Koko Taylor Description of subject: Koko Taylor was a powerhouse American blues singer, celebrated as the "Queen of the Blues" for her raw, gritty vocals and influential Chicago blues recordings.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
I’d Rather Go Blind
subject linked to:
Restvale Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
linked to: Koko Taylor
linked to: Koko Taylor
linked to: Koko Taylor