Crazy Blues
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"Crazy Blues" is a landmark 1920 blues recording by Mamie Smith that is widely regarded as the first commercially successful blues record by an African American female singer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Crazy Blues canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6403378 — 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: Crazy Blues Context triple: [Mamie Smith, notableWork, Crazy Blues]
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A.
Three O’Clock Blues
"Three O’Clock Blues" is a classic blues song, famously recorded by B.B. King and later featured as a duet with Eric Clapton on their collaborative album "Riding with the King."
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B.
Beale Street Blues
"Beale Street Blues" is a classic early 20th-century American blues song that helped popularize the genre and is closely associated with the musical culture of Memphis, Tennessee.
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C.
Wild Man Blues
"Wild Man Blues" is a classic 1927 jazz composition and recording that showcases Louis Armstrong's innovative early solo style and is considered a landmark in the development of jazz.
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D.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a 1965 Bob Dylan song famed for its rapid-fire, surreal lyrics and its influential cue-card style promotional film often cited as a precursor to the modern music video.
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E.
Black Crow Blues
"Black Crow Blues" is an early Bob Dylan song that blends folk and blues influences, featured on his 1964 album *Another Side of Bob Dylan*.
- 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: Crazy Blues Target entity description: "Crazy Blues" is a landmark 1920 blues recording by Mamie Smith that is widely regarded as the first commercially successful blues record by an African American female singer.
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A.
Three O’Clock Blues
"Three O’Clock Blues" is a classic blues song, famously recorded by B.B. King and later featured as a duet with Eric Clapton on their collaborative album "Riding with the King."
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B.
Beale Street Blues
"Beale Street Blues" is a classic early 20th-century American blues song that helped popularize the genre and is closely associated with the musical culture of Memphis, Tennessee.
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C.
Wild Man Blues
"Wild Man Blues" is a classic 1927 jazz composition and recording that showcases Louis Armstrong's innovative early solo style and is considered a landmark in the development of jazz.
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D.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a 1965 Bob Dylan song famed for its rapid-fire, surreal lyrics and its influential cue-card style promotional film often cited as a precursor to the modern music video.
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E.
Black Crow Blues
"Black Crow Blues" is an early Bob Dylan song that blends folk and blues influences, featured on his 1964 album *Another Side of Bob Dylan*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues recording
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| accompaniment | jazz band ⓘ |
| approximateLength | about 3 minutes ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | early race records era ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | Okeh 4169 ⓘ |
| composer | Perry Bradford ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era | 1920s popular music ⓘ |
| firstCommerciallySuccessfulBluesRecordBy | African American female singer ⓘ |
| firstIssuedOnFormat | shellac disc ⓘ |
| genre | blues ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
later blues singers
ⓘ
recording opportunities for African American artists ⓘ |
| hasPerformer |
Mamie Smith
ⓘ
Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Crazy Blues ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
early landmark in recorded blues history
ⓘ
pioneering recording in African American popular music ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of classic female blues
ⓘ
record industry marketing of race records ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Perry Bradford ⓘ |
| marketedAs | race record ⓘ |
| musicalForm | 12-bar blues ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first commercially successful blues record by an African American female singer
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helping to establish the race records market ⓘ |
| originalAudience | African American record buyers ⓘ |
| originalMedium | 78 rpm phonograph record ⓘ |
| performedBy | Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds ⓘ |
| performer | Mamie Smith ⓘ |
| period | early jazz and blues era ⓘ |
| recordCompany | Okeh Phonograph Corporation ⓘ |
| recordedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| recordingStudio |
Okeh recording studio
ⓘ
linked to:
Okeh Records
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| recordingYear | 1920 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Okeh Records ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1920-08-10 ⓘ |
| side | A-side ⓘ |
| subgenre | classic female blues ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
emotional distress
ⓘ
romantic sorrow ⓘ |
| tempo | medium ⓘ |
| vocalist | Mamie Smith ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | classic blues vocal ⓘ |
| vocalType | female solo vocal ⓘ |
| writer | Perry Bradford ⓘ |
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: Crazy Blues Description of subject: "Crazy Blues" is a landmark 1920 blues recording by Mamie Smith that is widely regarded as the first commercially successful blues record by an African American female singer.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.