Okeh 4169
E1580851
UNEXPLORED
Okeh 4169 is the original 1920 record release of Mamie Smith’s pioneering blues song “Crazy Blues,” often cited as the first commercially successful blues recording by an African American singer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Okeh 4169 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23303490 — 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: Okeh 4169 Context triple: [Crazy Blues, catalogNumber, Okeh 4169]
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A.
OK-4
OK-4 is the abbreviated designation for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district, a U.S. House of Representatives district in south-central Oklahoma.
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B.
OKH
OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) was the German Army High Command responsible for directing land operations for Nazi Germany during much of World War II.
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C.
OK-16
OK-16 is a state highway in Oklahoma that serves as a regional connector route across several counties.
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D.
OKE
OKE is the National Rail station code for Okehampton railway station in Devon, England.
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E.
OKE
OKE is Oracle’s managed Kubernetes service that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications in the Oracle Cloud.
- 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: Okeh 4169 Target entity description: Okeh 4169 is the original 1920 record release of Mamie Smith’s pioneering blues song “Crazy Blues,” often cited as the first commercially successful blues recording by an African American singer.
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A.
OK-4
OK-4 is the abbreviated designation for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district, a U.S. House of Representatives district in south-central Oklahoma.
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B.
OKH
OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) was the German Army High Command responsible for directing land operations for Nazi Germany during much of World War II.
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C.
OK-16
OK-16 is a state highway in Oklahoma that serves as a regional connector route across several counties.
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D.
OKE
OKE is the National Rail station code for Okehampton railway station in Devon, England.
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E.
OKE
OKE is Oracle’s managed Kubernetes service that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications in the Oracle Cloud.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.