Elijah Wald
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Elijah Wald is an American musician, music historian, and author known for his influential books on blues, folk, and popular music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elijah Wald canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4551438 — 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: Elijah Wald Context triple: [Dave Van Ronk, coAuthor, Elijah Wald]
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A.
William E. McEuen
William E. McEuen was an American film producer best known for his collaborations with comedian Steve Martin on several successful comedy films.
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B.
Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger was an influential American folk musician, folklorist, and collector who played a key role in the mid-20th-century revival of traditional old-time music.
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C.
Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax was an American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and field collector renowned for preserving and promoting traditional folk music from across the United States and around the world.
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D.
Paul Hood
Paul Hood is the introspective teenage son in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and turmoil of his suburban 1970s family.
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E.
John Lomax
John Lomax was an influential American folklorist and musicologist known for collecting and preserving traditional folk and blues songs, including the work of artists like Lead Belly.
- 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: Elijah Wald Target entity description: Elijah Wald is an American musician, music historian, and author known for his influential books on blues, folk, and popular music.
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A.
William E. McEuen
William E. McEuen was an American film producer best known for his collaborations with comedian Steve Martin on several successful comedy films.
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B.
Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger was an influential American folk musician, folklorist, and collector who played a key role in the mid-20th-century revival of traditional old-time music.
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C.
Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax was an American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and field collector renowned for preserving and promoting traditional folk music from across the United States and around the world.
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D.
Paul Hood
Paul Hood is the introspective teenage son in Rick Moody's novel and its film adaptation "The Ice Storm," whose experiences reflect the emotional disconnection and turmoil of his suburban 1970s family.
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E.
John Lomax
John Lomax was an influential American folklorist and musicologist known for collecting and preserving traditional folk and blues songs, including the work of artists like Lead Belly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ music historian ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American popular music
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blues studies ⓘ cultural history ⓘ ethnomusicology ⓘ folk music studies ⓘ music history ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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folk music ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| hasRole |
guitarist
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lecturer ⓘ music critic ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.elijahwald.com ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
American folk music revival
NERFINISHED
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American popular music history ⓘ Beatles NERFINISHED ⓘ Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh White NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ history of the blues ⓘ narcocorridos ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
NERFINISHED
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music NERFINISHED ⓘ How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh White: Society Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas NERFINISHED ⓘ River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blues: A Very Short Introduction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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music historian ⓘ musician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cambridge, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| writesFor | various music publications ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Elijah Wald Description of subject: Elijah Wald is an American musician, music historian, and author known for his influential books on blues, folk, and popular music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mayor of MacDougal Street