St. Louis Blues (song)

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blues standard jazz standard popular song song

"St. Louis Blues" is a landmark 1914 American blues song by W.C. Handy that became one of the most famous and influential standards in early jazz and popular music.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
"St. Louis Blues"	2
St. Louis Blues (song) canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1374844 — 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: St. Louis Blues (song)
Context triple: [St. Louis Blues, namedAfter, St. Louis Blues (song)]

A. Spirits of St. Louis
Spirits of St. Louis was a short-lived but memorable professional basketball team in the mid-1970s ABA, known for its colorful ownership, young star players, and lucrative NBA merger settlement.
B. The Pride of St. Louis
The Pride of St. Louis is a 1952 biographical sports film dramatizing the life and baseball career of Hall of Famer Dizzy Dean.
C. Cleveland Blues
The Cleveland Blues were an early professional baseball team from Cleveland that competed in the 19th-century major leagues before the franchise evolved into what became known as the Cleveland Indians.
D. Thunder Over Louisville
Thunder Over Louisville is a massive annual airshow and fireworks display that serves as the kickoff event for the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville.
E. Slapshot
Slapshot is the bald eagle mascot of the NHL’s Washington Capitals, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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: St. Louis Blues (song)
Target entity description: "St. Louis Blues" is a landmark 1914 American blues song by W.C. Handy that became one of the most famous and influential standards in early jazz and popular music.

A. Spirits of St. Louis
Spirits of St. Louis was a short-lived but memorable professional basketball team in the mid-1970s ABA, known for its colorful ownership, young star players, and lucrative NBA merger settlement.
B. The Pride of St. Louis
The Pride of St. Louis is a 1952 biographical sports film dramatizing the life and baseball career of Hall of Famer Dizzy Dean.
C. Cleveland Blues
The Cleveland Blues were an early professional baseball team from Cleveland that competed in the 19th-century major leagues before the franchise evolved into what became known as the Cleveland Indians.
D. Thunder Over Louisville
Thunder Over Louisville is a massive annual airshow and fireworks display that serves as the kickoff event for the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville.
E. Slapshot
Slapshot is the bald eagle mascot of the NHL’s Washington Capitals, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	blues standard ⓘ jazz standard ⓘ popular song ⓘ song ⓘ
composer	W. C. Handy ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
culturalStatus	American popular music standard ⓘ standard of early jazz repertoire ⓘ
featuredPerformer	Bessie Smith ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ W. C. Handy ⓘ
firstPublisher	W. C. Handy ⓘ
genre	blues ⓘ jazz ⓘ popular music ⓘ
hasHarmonicFeature	mix of blues harmony and popular song harmony ⓘ
hasMelodicFeature	call-and-response phrasing ⓘ
hasNotableFilm	St. Louis Blues (1929 short film) ⓘ St. Louis Blues (1958 film) ⓘ
hasNotableRecording	Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong 1925 recording ⓘ Bing Crosby recordings ⓘ Duke Ellington Orchestra recordings ⓘ linked to: Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recordings ⓘ Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra recordings ⓘ
hasRhythmicInfluence	Latin and tango rhythms in American popular music ⓘ
includedIn	Great American Songbook (commonly regarded) ⓘ linked to: Great American Songbook
influenced	development of urban blues style ⓘ use of blues form in jazz arrangements ⓘ
influencedGenre	early jazz ⓘ popular music ⓘ swing ⓘ
key	commonly performed in C major ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
lyricist	W. C. Handy ⓘ
mediaType	sheet music ⓘ sound recording ⓘ
notableAs	one of the earliest blues songs to achieve mass popularity ⓘ one of the most recorded songs of the early 20th century ⓘ
placeInCareer	one of W. C. Handy's most famous compositions ⓘ
publicationDate	1914 ⓘ
rhythmicElement	tango-like habanera rhythm in the bridge ⓘ
setting	St. Louis, Missouri ⓘ linked to: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
structure	12-bar blues sections ⓘ 16-bar habanera-like bridge ⓘ
subjectOf	numerous musicological studies of early blues ⓘ
theme	heartbreak ⓘ lost love ⓘ urban blues experience ⓘ
yearOfComposition	1914 ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

St. Louis Blues → namedAfter → St. Louis Blues (song) ⓘ

Handy Brothers Music Company → hasNotableWorkPublished → "St. Louis Blues" ⓘ

linked to: St. Louis Blues (song)

St. Louis Blues (1929 short film) → featuresSong → "St. Louis Blues" ⓘ