Blind Willie
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Blind Willie is a novella by Stephen King that follows a Vietnam veteran grappling with guilt and memory, later collected in his book "Hearts in Atlantis."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blind Willie canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8243249 — 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: Blind Willie Context triple: [Hearts in Atlantis, hasPart, Blind Willie]
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A.
Blind Willie McTell
"Blind Willie McTell" is a 1983 Bob Dylan song, released posthumously on archival collections, that pays tribute to the blues tradition and the legendary blues musician of the same name.
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B.
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson was an influential early 20th-century American blues singer and guitarist whose distinctive style helped shape Texas blues and modern popular music.
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C.
Charley Patton
Charley Patton was an influential early Delta blues musician and singer whose powerful performances and recordings helped shape the foundation of American blues music.
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D.
Lead Belly
Lead Belly was an influential American folk and blues musician renowned for his powerful vocals, 12-string guitar playing, and vast repertoire of traditional songs that deeply shaped the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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E.
Son House
Son House was an influential American Delta blues singer and guitarist whose emotionally intense performances and slide guitar style deeply shaped the development of blues and inspired later legends like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
- 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: Blind Willie Target entity description: Blind Willie is a novella by Stephen King that follows a Vietnam veteran grappling with guilt and memory, later collected in his book "Hearts in Atlantis."
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A.
Blind Willie McTell
"Blind Willie McTell" is a 1983 Bob Dylan song, released posthumously on archival collections, that pays tribute to the blues tradition and the legendary blues musician of the same name.
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B.
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson was an influential early 20th-century American blues singer and guitarist whose distinctive style helped shape Texas blues and modern popular music.
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C.
Charley Patton
Charley Patton was an influential early Delta blues musician and singer whose powerful performances and recordings helped shape the foundation of American blues music.
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D.
Lead Belly
Lead Belly was an influential American folk and blues musician renowned for his powerful vocals, 12-string guitar playing, and vast repertoire of traditional songs that deeply shaped the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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E.
Son House
Son House was an influential American Delta blues singer and guitarist whose emotionally intense performances and slide guitar style deeply shaped the development of blues and inspired later legends like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novella ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| authorOfCollection | Stephen King ⓘ |
| collectedIn | Hearts in Atlantis ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ war fiction ⓘ |
| includedInGenreCategory |
American novellas
ⓘ
works about the Vietnam War ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Willie Shearman ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
internal conflict
ⓘ
psychological realism ⓘ |
| partOf | Hearts in Atlantis ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | Vietnam War veteran ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Hearts in Atlantis (novella)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hearts in Atlantis
Low Men in Yellow Coats ⓘ Why We’re in Vietnam ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| settingPeriod | post–Vietnam War era ⓘ |
| theme |
atonement
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ memory ⓘ the legacy of war ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Blind Willie Description of subject: Blind Willie is a novella by Stephen King that follows a Vietnam veteran grappling with guilt and memory, later collected in his book "Hearts in Atlantis."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.