“Birth of the Blues”
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“Birth of the Blues” is a popular American song from the 1920s, celebrated as an early standard that helped introduce blues-influenced music to mainstream audiences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Birth of the Blues | 1 |
| “Birth of the Blues” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7074801 — 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: “Birth of the Blues” Context triple: [Buddy DeSylva, notableWork, “Birth of the Blues”]
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A.
“The Blues”
“The Blues” is a jazz album by alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges showcasing his smooth tone and lyrical, blues-infused style.
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B.
Story of the Blues
"Story of the Blues" is a song by English band After Hours, known for its emotive reflection on hardship and resilience in the blues tradition.
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C.
Preachin’ the Blues
Preachin’ the Blues is a seminal Delta blues song by Son House, celebrated for its raw vocal intensity, slide guitar work, and profound influence on later blues and rock musicians.
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D.
Risin’ with the Blues
Risin’ with the Blues is a late-career blues album by Ike Turner that showcases his enduring musicianship and earned critical acclaim, including a Grammy Award.
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E.
The King of the Blues
The King of the Blues is the honorific nickname of legendary American blues guitarist and singer B.B. King, renowned for his expressive playing style and influence on modern blues music.
- 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: “Birth of the Blues” Target entity description: “Birth of the Blues” is a popular American song from the 1920s, celebrated as an early standard that helped introduce blues-influenced music to mainstream audiences.
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A.
“The Blues”
“The Blues” is a jazz album by alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges showcasing his smooth tone and lyrical, blues-infused style.
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B.
Story of the Blues
"Story of the Blues" is a song by English band After Hours, known for its emotive reflection on hardship and resilience in the blues tradition.
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C.
Preachin’ the Blues
Preachin’ the Blues is a seminal Delta blues song by Son House, celebrated for its raw vocal intensity, slide guitar work, and profound influence on later blues and rock musicians.
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D.
Risin’ with the Blues
Risin’ with the Blues is a late-career blues album by Ike Turner that showcases his enduring musicianship and earned critical acclaim, including a Grammy Award.
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E.
The King of the Blues
The King of the Blues is the honorific nickname of legendary American blues guitarist and singer B.B. King, renowned for his expressive playing style and influence on modern blues music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| composer | Ray Henderson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decade | 1920s ⓘ |
| describedAs |
American standard
ⓘ
jazz standard ⓘ popular standard ⓘ |
| firstPublisher |
DeSylva, Brown and Henderson, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
De Sylva, Brown and Henderson
|
| genre |
blues-influenced popular music
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | 32-bar song form ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording |
Anita O’Day recording
ⓘ
Bette Midler recording ⓘ Billy Eckstine recording ⓘ Bing Crosby recording ⓘ Bobby Darin recording ⓘ Cab Calloway recording ⓘ Dean Martin recording ⓘ Dinah Shore recording ⓘ Ella Fitzgerald recording ⓘ Frank Sinatra recording ⓘ Harry Connick Jr. recording ⓘ Harry James and His Orchestra recording ⓘ Jo Stafford recording ⓘ Johnny Mathis recording ⓘ Julie London recording ⓘ Keely Smith recording ⓘ Louis Armstrong recording ⓘ Nat King Cole recording ⓘ Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra recording ⓘ Peggy Lee recording ⓘ Ray Charles recording ⓘ Sammy Davis Jr. recording ⓘ Shirley Bassey recording ⓘ The Platters recording ⓘ Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra recording ⓘ |
| hasTempo | medium swing ⓘ |
| includedIn | American songbook repertoire ⓘ |
| influencedBy | African American blues traditions ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Buddy G. DeSylva
ⓘ
linked to:
Buddy DeSylva
Lew Brown ⓘ |
| notableFor | helping introduce blues-influenced music to mainstream audiences ⓘ |
| performancePractice |
frequently used as a showcase for improvisation
ⓘ
often performed by big bands ⓘ often performed by jazz vocalists ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1926 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | origin and feeling of the blues ⓘ |
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: “Birth of the Blues” Description of subject: “Birth of the Blues” is a popular American song from the 1920s, celebrated as an early standard that helped introduce blues-influenced music to mainstream audiences.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: “Birth of the Blues”