Cotton Fields
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"Cotton Fields" is a traditional American folk and blues song popularized by Lead Belly and later widely covered by various artists across genres.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cotton Fields canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4452333 — 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: Cotton Fields Context triple: [Lead Belly, notableWork, Cotton Fields]
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A.
Long Tall Sally
Long Tall Sally is a 1956 rock and roll song by Little Richard, celebrated for its frantic tempo, powerful vocals, and major influence on early rock music.
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B.
Statesboro Blues
"Statesboro Blues" is a classic blues song popularized in rock music by The Allman Brothers Band, especially through their influential live performances.
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C.
Out in the Fields
"Out in the Fields" is a 1985 hard rock/metal single by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, featuring Phil Lynott, that addresses the violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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D.
Ol' Man River
Ol' Man River is a classic American song from the 1927 musical "Show Boat," renowned for its powerful, soulful melody and poignant commentary on African American hardship and resilience.
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E.
This Little Light of Mine
"This Little Light of Mine" is a popular gospel song and spiritual often associated with the civil rights movement and sung to express hope, resilience, and personal faith.
- 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: Cotton Fields Target entity description: "Cotton Fields" is a traditional American folk and blues song popularized by Lead Belly and later widely covered by various artists across genres.
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A.
Long Tall Sally
Long Tall Sally is a 1956 rock and roll song by Little Richard, celebrated for its frantic tempo, powerful vocals, and major influence on early rock music.
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B.
Statesboro Blues
"Statesboro Blues" is a classic blues song popularized in rock music by The Allman Brothers Band, especially through their influential live performances.
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C.
Out in the Fields
"Out in the Fields" is a 1985 hard rock/metal single by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, featuring Phil Lynott, that addresses the violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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D.
Ol' Man River
Ol' Man River is a classic American song from the 1927 musical "Show Boat," renowned for its powerful, soulful melody and poignant commentary on African American hardship and resilience.
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E.
This Little Light of Mine
"This Little Light of Mine" is a popular gospel song and spiritual often associated with the civil rights movement and sung to express hope, resilience, and personal faith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues song
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folk song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Cotton Fields Back Home
NERFINISHED
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In Them Old Cottonfields Back Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American South
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Lead Belly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coveredBy |
Creedence Clearwater Revival
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elvis Presley NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Belafonte NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Cash NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beach Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Delltones NERFINISHED ⓘ The Highwaymen NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kingsmen NERFINISHED ⓘ The River City Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Seekers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Spencer Davis Group NERFINISHED ⓘ The Springfields NERFINISHED ⓘ Unit 4+2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | African American folk tradition ⓘ |
| firstRecordedBy | Lead Belly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
folk ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording |
Cotton Fields (Creedence Clearwater Revival recording)
NERFINISHED
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Cotton Fields (The Beach Boys recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African American work songs
ⓘ
blues tradition ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicalTradition |
American blues
ⓘ
American folk music ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Creedence Clearwater Revival
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lead Belly NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beach Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | Lead Belly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performancePractice |
acoustic guitar accompaniment
ⓘ
group singing ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | cotton plantations in the American South ⓘ |
| theme |
cotton picking
ⓘ
homesickness ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | call and response ⓘ |
| writer | Lead Belly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Cotton Fields Description of subject: "Cotton Fields" is a traditional American folk and blues song popularized by Lead Belly and later widely covered by various artists across genres.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.