Meade Lux Lewis
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Meade Lux Lewis was an influential American pianist and composer best known for helping popularize boogie-woogie music in the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meade Lux Lewis canonical | 7 |
| Anderson Meade Lewis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2226783 — 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: Meade Lux Lewis Context triple: [From Spirituals to Swing concerts, featuredPerformer, Meade Lux Lewis]
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A.
Sam M. Lewis
Sam M. Lewis was an American lyricist best known for writing popular songs during the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
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B.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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C.
George W. Lewis
George W. Lewis was an American aerospace engineer and long-serving director of research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), whose leadership significantly advanced early U.S. aeronautical research.
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D.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Thomas Lewis
Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
- 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: Meade Lux Lewis Target entity description: Meade Lux Lewis was an influential American pianist and composer best known for helping popularize boogie-woogie music in the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Sam M. Lewis
Sam M. Lewis was an American lyricist best known for writing popular songs during the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
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B.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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C.
George W. Lewis
George W. Lewis was an American aerospace engineer and long-serving director of research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), whose leadership significantly advanced early U.S. aeronautical research.
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D.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Thomas Lewis
Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boogie-woogie musician
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composer ⓘ person ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Meade Lux Lewis ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Albert Ammons
ⓘ
Pete Johnson ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1905-09-04 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Crystal Lake Cemetery, Minneapolis ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | car accident ⓘ |
| contributedTo | popularization of boogie-woogie piano trios ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1964-06-07 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Minneapolis
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surface form:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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| era | Swing era ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| fullName |
Meade Lux Lewis
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Anderson Meade Lewis
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| genre |
boogie-woogie
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jazz ⓘ |
| givenName | Anderson ⓘ |
| helpedPopularize | boogie-woogie music ⓘ |
| heritage | American jazz tradition ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
rhythm and blues
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rock and roll ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| learnedInstrument | self-taught piano ⓘ |
| nickname | Lux ⓘ |
| notableFor | boogie-woogie piano style ⓘ |
| notableRecording | first recording of Honky Tonk Train Blues ⓘ |
| notableRecordingYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| notableWork | Honky Tonk Train Blues ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
pianist ⓘ |
| participatedIn | boogie-woogie revival of late 1930s ⓘ |
| performanceVenue | Carnegie Hall ⓘ |
| performedAt | From Spirituals to Swing concerts ⓘ |
| recorded | Honky Tonk Train Blues ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Blue Note Records
ⓘ
Parlophone ⓘ
surface form:
Parlophone Records
Victor Records ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago
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surface form:
Chicago, Illinois
New York City ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
driving left-hand bass patterns
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improvised right-hand riffs ⓘ |
| workedAs | taxicab driver ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Meade Lux Lewis Description of subject: Meade Lux Lewis was an influential American pianist and composer best known for helping popularize boogie-woogie music in the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Anderson Meade Lewis