Nothing but the Blood of Jesus

E1012232

19th-century hymn Christian hymn gospel song

"Nothing but the Blood of Jesus" is a classic Christian hymn that emphasizes the redemptive power of Jesus' sacrificial death for the forgiveness of sins.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Nothing But the Blood of Jesus	3
"Nothing but the blood of Jesus"	1
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus canonical	1
O Dearest Jesus, What Law Hast Thou Broken	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12925957 — 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: Nothing but the Blood of Jesus
Context triple: [My Savior, hasPart, Nothing but the Blood of Jesus]

A. The Redeemer
"The Redeemer" is a World War I poem by British poet Siegfried Sassoon that portrays a Christ-like soldier enduring the horrors of the trenches.
B. It Must Be Jesus
"It Must Be Jesus" is a gospel song by the Southern Tones whose melody and structure were famously adapted by Ray Charles into his pioneering soul hit "I Got a Woman."
C. Christ and the Sinner
"Christ and the Sinner" is an expressionist artwork by German painter and printmaker Karl Schmidt-Rottluff that reflects his bold use of color and stark forms to convey intense spiritual and emotional themes.
D. The Passion
The Passion is a novel by Jeanette Winterson that blends historical fiction and magical realism to explore love, war, and obsession during the Napoleonic era.
E. The Road to Calvary
The Road to Calvary is a historical novel trilogy by Russian writer Alexei Tolstoy that follows the lives of two sisters amid the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Civil War.
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: Nothing but the Blood of Jesus
Target entity description: "Nothing but the Blood of Jesus" is a classic Christian hymn that emphasizes the redemptive power of Jesus' sacrificial death for the forgiveness of sins.

A. The Redeemer
"The Redeemer" is a World War I poem by British poet Siegfried Sassoon that portrays a Christ-like soldier enduring the horrors of the trenches.
B. It Must Be Jesus
"It Must Be Jesus" is a gospel song by the Southern Tones whose melody and structure were famously adapted by Ray Charles into his pioneering soul hit "I Got a Woman."
C. Christ and the Sinner
"Christ and the Sinner" is an expressionist artwork by German painter and printmaker Karl Schmidt-Rottluff that reflects his bold use of color and stark forms to convey intense spiritual and emotional themes.
D. The Passion
The Passion is a novel by Jeanette Winterson that blends historical fiction and magical realism to explore love, war, and obsession during the Napoleonic era.
E. The Road to Calvary
The Road to Calvary is a historical novel trilogy by Russian writer Alexei Tolstoy that follows the lives of two sisters amid the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Civil War.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	19th-century hymn ⓘ Christian hymn ⓘ gospel song ⓘ
associatedDoctrine	justification by faith ⓘ soteriology ⓘ substitutionary atonement ⓘ
author	Robert Lowry ⓘ linked to: Robert Lowry (hymn writer)
centralFigure	Jesus Christ ⓘ
commonUsage	Good Friday services ⓘ linked to: Good Friday Vespers communion services ⓘ evangelical worship services ⓘ revival meetings ⓘ
composer	Robert Lowry ⓘ linked to: Robert Lowry (hymn writer)
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
emphasizes	Christ’s blood as the only means of cleansing sin ⓘ exclusivity of Jesus for salvation ⓘ
firstLine	"What can wash away my sin?" ⓘ
focusesOn	sacrificial death of Jesus ⓘ salvation through Christ alone ⓘ
genre	Christian hymnody ⓘ gospel ⓘ
hasInfluenced	modern worship music ⓘ
hasRecordingType	choir arrangements ⓘ congregational recordings ⓘ contemporary Christian covers ⓘ
hasRefrain	yes ⓘ
isFrequentlyIncludedIn	Baptist hymnals ⓘ Methodist hymnals ⓘ Protestant hymnals ⓘ non-denominational songbooks ⓘ
isSungBy	choirs ⓘ congregations ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
liturgicalContext	Protestant worship ⓘ evangelical worship ⓘ
lyricist	Robert Lowry ⓘ linked to: Robert Lowry (hymn writer)
musicalForm	strophic hymn ⓘ
refrain	"Nothing but the blood of Jesus" ⓘ linked to: Nothing but the Blood of Jesus
religiousTradition	Christianity ⓘ
scripturalAllusion	1 John 1:7 ⓘ Ephesians 1:7 ⓘ Hebrews 9 ⓘ linked to: Letter to the Hebrews Revelation 1:5 ⓘ
theme	atonement ⓘ forgiveness of sins ⓘ power of the blood of Jesus ⓘ redemption ⓘ

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