Afro Blue
E1020072
"Afro Blue" is a jazz-influenced track best known for Robert Glasper's collaboration with Erykah Badu on his genre-blending album "Black Radio."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Afro Blue canonical | 6 |
| Afro-Blue | 3 |
| Afro Blue (Robert Glasper feat. Erykah Badu) | 2 |
| Afro Blue (lyric adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13078262 — 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: Afro Blue Context triple: [Black Radio, hasPart, Afro Blue]
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A.
Blue Lou
"Blue Lou" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, widely performed and recorded by big bands in the 1930s and beyond.
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B.
The Soul Man
The Soul Man is an American television sitcom starring Cedric the Entertainer as a former R&B singer who becomes a preacher in his hometown church.
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C.
Little Wing
"Little Wing" is Stevie Ray Vaughan's acclaimed instrumental cover of the Jimi Hendrix classic, celebrated for its expressive guitar work and emotional depth.
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D.
The Light Blues
The Light Blues is a common nickname for Rangers F.C., one of Scotland’s most successful and historically significant football clubs based in Glasgow.
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E.
Moanin'
"Moanin'" is a landmark 1958 hard bop jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, celebrated for its soulful, blues-infused compositions and enduring influence on modern jazz.
- 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: Afro Blue Target entity description: "Afro Blue" is a jazz-influenced track best known for Robert Glasper's collaboration with Erykah Badu on his genre-blending album "Black Radio."
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A.
Blue Lou
"Blue Lou" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, widely performed and recorded by big bands in the 1930s and beyond.
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B.
The Soul Man
The Soul Man is an American television sitcom starring Cedric the Entertainer as a former R&B singer who becomes a preacher in his hometown church.
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C.
Little Wing
"Little Wing" is Stevie Ray Vaughan's acclaimed instrumental cover of the Jimi Hendrix classic, celebrated for its expressive guitar work and emotional depth.
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D.
The Light Blues
The Light Blues is a common nickname for Rangers F.C., one of Scotland’s most successful and historically significant football clubs based in Glasgow.
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E.
Moanin'
"Moanin'" is a landmark 1958 hard bop jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, celebrated for its soulful, blues-infused compositions and enduring influence on modern jazz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical composition
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song ⓘ song recording ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| arranger | Robert Glasper ⓘ |
| basedOn | Afro Blue ⓘ |
| composer | Mongo Santamaría ⓘ |
| criticalReception | praised for innovative reinterpretation of a jazz standard ⓘ |
| featuredArtist | Erykah Badu ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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R&B ⓘ R&B ⓘ hip hop-influenced jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ neo soul ⓘ neo soul ⓘ neo soul ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass
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drums ⓘ electronic effects ⓘ piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasNotableCoverVersion |
Afro Blue (Robert Glasper feat. Erykah Badu)
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linked to:
Afro Blue
|
| hasNotablePerformer |
Abbey Lincoln
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Dee Dee Bridgewater ⓘ John Coltrane ⓘ Robert Glasper Experiment ⓘ
linked to:
The Robert Glasper Experiment
|
| includesTrack |
Afro Blue (Robert Glasper feat. Erykah Badu)
ⓘ
linked to:
Afro Blue
|
| influencedGenre | modern jazz ⓘ |
| lyricist | Oscar Brown Jr. ⓘ |
| notableFor | genre-blending jazz, soul, and hip hop elements ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Black Radio ⓘ |
| performer |
Erykah Badu
ⓘ
Robert Glasper ⓘ Robert Glasper Experiment ⓘ
linked to:
The Robert Glasper Experiment
|
| primaryArtist |
Robert Glasper Experiment
ⓘ
linked to:
The Robert Glasper Experiment
|
| producer |
Chris Dave
ⓘ
Derrick Hodge ⓘ Robert Glasper ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
ⓘ
Blue Note Records ⓘ |
| releaseContext | Black Radio studio album campaign ⓘ |
| timeSignature | triple meter ⓘ |
| vocalist | Erykah Badu ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | improvisational jazz phrasing ⓘ |
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: Afro Blue Description of subject: "Afro Blue" is a jazz-influenced track best known for Robert Glasper's collaboration with Erykah Badu on his genre-blending album "Black Radio."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
album "Red Earth"
linked to: Afro Blue
linked to: Afro Blue
linked to: Afro Blue
linked to: Afro Blue
linked to: Afro Blue
subject linked to:
Afro Blue
linked to: Afro Blue