Soul music
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Soul music is a genre that blends gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz influences into a deeply emotive, vocal-driven style that emerged in African American communities in the 1950s and 1960s.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Motown sound | 4 |
| Memphis soul | 1 |
| Motown soul | 1 |
| Soul music canonical | 1 |
| soul music | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2405194 — 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: Soul music Context triple: [Solange Knowles, influencedBy, Soul music]
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A.
Soul
Soul is a 1958 jazz album by tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins that showcases his rich tone and influential improvisational style in a small-group setting.
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B.
Soul
Soul is a 2020 Pixar animated film that explores themes of purpose, passion, and the afterlife through the story of a jazz musician who experiences a life-changing journey beyond Earth.
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C.
Soul
"Soul" is a studio album by American rock band Seal that showcases his distinctive blend of pop, R&B, and soul through covers of classic soul songs.
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D.
R&B
R&B is a popular music genre that blends soulful vocals with rhythmic grooves, drawing from blues, jazz, gospel, and later funk and hip-hop influences.
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E.
Blues
Blues is a genre of music characterized by expressive melodies, blue notes, and themes of hardship and emotion that originated in African American communities in the Deep South of the United States.
- 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: Soul music Target entity description: Soul music is a genre that blends gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz influences into a deeply emotive, vocal-driven style that emerged in African American communities in the 1950s and 1960s.
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A.
Soul
Soul is a 1958 jazz album by tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins that showcases his rich tone and influential improvisational style in a small-group setting.
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B.
Soul
Soul is a 2020 Pixar animated film that explores themes of purpose, passion, and the afterlife through the story of a jazz musician who experiences a life-changing journey beyond Earth.
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C.
Soul
"Soul" is a studio album by American rock band Seal that showcases his distinctive blend of pop, R&B, and soul through covers of classic soul songs.
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D.
R&B
R&B is a popular music genre that blends soulful vocals with rhythmic grooves, drawing from blues, jazz, gospel, and later funk and hip-hop influences.
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E.
Blues
Blues is a genre of music characterized by expressive melodies, blue notes, and themes of hardship and emotion that originated in African American communities in the Deep South of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American music
ⓘ
music genre ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | African American communities ⓘ |
| derivativeGenre |
Northern soul
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Southern soul ⓘ blue-eyed soul ⓘ contemporary R&B ⓘ funk ⓘ neo soul ⓘ progressive soul ⓘ psychedelic soul ⓘ quiet storm ⓘ |
| developedDuring |
1950s
ⓘ
1960s ⓘ |
| developedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| instrument |
Hammond organ
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drum kit ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ piano ⓘ saxophone ⓘ trombone ⓘ trumpet ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableArtist |
Al Green
ⓘ
Aretha Franklin ⓘ James Brown ⓘ Marvin Gaye ⓘ Otis Redding ⓘ Ray Charles ⓘ Sam Cooke ⓘ Stevie Wonder ⓘ Wilson Pickett ⓘ |
| notableLabel |
Atlantic Records
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Motown ⓘ
surface form:
Motown Records
Stax Records ⓘ |
| peakPopularity |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| relatedGenre |
blues
ⓘ
funk ⓘ gospel music ⓘ jazz ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| stylisticOrigin |
gospel music
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| subgenre |
Chicago soul
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Memphis soul ⓘ Motown soul ⓘ Philadelphia soul ⓘ deep soul ⓘ smooth soul ⓘ |
| typicalFeature |
call and response singing
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emotive vocals ⓘ gospel-influenced harmonies ⓘ handclaps ⓘ horn sections ⓘ melismatic singing ⓘ prominent rhythm section ⓘ strong backbeat ⓘ |
| typicalTheme |
heartbreak
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love ⓘ social justice ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
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: Soul music Description of subject: Soul music is a genre that blends gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz influences into a deeply emotive, vocal-driven style that emerged in African American communities in the 1950s and 1960s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Memphis soul
this entity surface form:
soul music
this entity surface form:
Motown sound
this entity surface form:
Motown sound
this entity surface form:
Motown sound
this entity surface form:
Motown sound
this entity surface form:
Motown soul