Attica Blues
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Attica Blues is a politically charged 1972 jazz album by saxophonist Archie Shepp that blends avant-garde jazz, soul, and funk to respond to the Attica prison uprising and broader civil rights struggles.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Attica Blues canonical | 1 |
| Attica Blues (title track) | 1 |
| Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy | 1 |
| Invocation: Attica Blues | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11255533 — 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: Attica Blues Context triple: [Archie Shepp, notableWork, Attica Blues]
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A.
Harlem Cycle
Harlem Cycle is a series of hardboiled crime novels by Chester Himes set in Harlem and featuring the detective duo Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones.
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B.
A Rage in Harlem
A Rage in Harlem is a 1991 crime-comedy film based on Chester Himes's novel, featuring Gregory Hines in a story of hustlers, romance, and deception in 1950s Harlem.
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C.
Lock Up
"Lock Up" is a 1989 American prison thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone as an inmate battling a sadistic warden.
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D.
Beale St. Blues
"Beale St. Blues" is an alternate title for the classic American jazz and blues standard "Beale Street Blues," written by W.C. Handy and named after the famous Memphis street.
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E.
A Song for Assata
A Song for Assata is a politically charged hip-hop track by Common that pays tribute to and narrates the story of activist Assata Shakur.
- 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: Attica Blues Target entity description: Attica Blues is a politically charged 1972 jazz album by saxophonist Archie Shepp that blends avant-garde jazz, soul, and funk to respond to the Attica prison uprising and broader civil rights struggles.
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A.
Harlem Cycle
Harlem Cycle is a series of hardboiled crime novels by Chester Himes set in Harlem and featuring the detective duo Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones.
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B.
A Rage in Harlem
A Rage in Harlem is a 1991 crime-comedy film based on Chester Himes's novel, featuring Gregory Hines in a story of hustlers, romance, and deception in 1950s Harlem.
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C.
Lock Up
"Lock Up" is a 1989 American prison thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone as an inmate battling a sadistic warden.
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D.
Beale St. Blues
"Beale St. Blues" is an alternate title for the classic American jazz and blues standard "Beale Street Blues," written by W.C. Handy and named after the famous Memphis street.
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E.
A Song for Assata
A Song for Assata is a politically charged hip-hop track by Common that pays tribute to and narrates the story of activist Assata Shakur.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Attica Blues Description of subject: Attica Blues is a politically charged 1972 jazz album by saxophonist Archie Shepp that blends avant-garde jazz, soul, and funk to respond to the Attica prison uprising and broader civil rights struggles.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Heather Ann Thompson
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notableWork
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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