Cocaine Blues
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"Cocaine Blues" is a classic American country-folk murder ballad most famously associated with Johnny Cash, who delivered a legendary performance of it on his Live at Folsom Prison album.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cocaine Blues canonical | 3 |
| Cocaine Blues (country variant) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5199199 — 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: Cocaine Blues Context triple: [Live at Folsom Prison concert, notableSongPerformed, Cocaine Blues]
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A.
Cocaine Nights
Cocaine Nights is a dark, psychologically driven crime novel by J. G. Ballard that explores violence, boredom, and social control within an affluent expatriate community on the Costa del Sol.
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B.
Still Got the Blues
"Still Got the Blues" is a 1990 blues-rock song and title track by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, renowned for its emotive guitar solos and status as one of his signature pieces.
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C.
Bell Bottom Blues
"Bell Bottom Blues" is a blues-rock song by Derek and the Dominos, co-written and performed by Eric Clapton, renowned for its emotional guitar work and themes of unrequited love.
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D.
Bad Penny Blues
Bad Penny Blues is a 1956 British jazz single by trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, noted for its influential piano riff and status as one of the first UK jazz records to enter the pop charts.
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E.
Smoke a Little Smoke
"Smoke a Little Smoke" is a country song by American singer-songwriter Eric Church, known for its gritty sound and laid-back, rebellious lyrics about unwinding and escaping life's pressures.
- 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: Cocaine Blues Target entity description: "Cocaine Blues" is a classic American country-folk murder ballad most famously associated with Johnny Cash, who delivered a legendary performance of it on his Live at Folsom Prison album.
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A.
Cocaine Nights
Cocaine Nights is a dark, psychologically driven crime novel by J. G. Ballard that explores violence, boredom, and social control within an affluent expatriate community on the Costa del Sol.
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B.
Still Got the Blues
"Still Got the Blues" is a 1990 blues-rock song and title track by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, renowned for its emotive guitar solos and status as one of his signature pieces.
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C.
Bell Bottom Blues
"Bell Bottom Blues" is a blues-rock song by Derek and the Dominos, co-written and performed by Eric Clapton, renowned for its emotional guitar work and themes of unrequited love.
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D.
Bad Penny Blues
Bad Penny Blues is a 1956 British jazz single by trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, noted for its influential piano riff and status as one of the first UK jazz records to enter the pop charts.
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E.
Smoke a Little Smoke
"Smoke a Little Smoke" is a country song by American singer-songwriter Eric Church, known for its gritty sound and laid-back, rebellious lyrics about unwinding and escaping life's pressures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
murder ballad
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Little Sadie (in some variants)
ⓘ
linked to:
Little Sadie
Transfusion Blues (in some variants) ⓘ
linked to:
Transfusion Blues
|
| associatedWith | Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
country
ⓘ
folk ⓘ murder ballad ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeForm | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| includedOn |
Johnny Cash album "At Folsom Prison"
ⓘ
linked to:
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
|
| influencedBy | traditional American folk ballads ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalSubject |
a man who kills his lover
ⓘ
a trial and sentencing ⓘ regret over cocaine use ⓘ |
| notableLivePerformance |
Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison, 1968
ⓘ
linked to:
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
|
| notablePerformer |
Bill Monroe
ⓘ
Bob Dylan (in related/variant versions) ⓘ
linked to:
Bob Dylan
George Thorogood ⓘ
linked to:
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Hank Thompson ⓘ Johnny Cash ⓘ Red Foley ⓘ Roy Hogsed ⓘ The Charlatans ⓘ Townes Van Zandt ⓘ |
| performedLiveBy | Johnny Cash ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
ⓘ
linked to:
Bill Monroe
George Thorogood and the Destroyers ⓘ
linked to:
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys ⓘ
linked to:
Hank Thompson
Johnny Cash ⓘ Red Foley ⓘ Roy Hogsed ⓘ |
| recordLabelForNotableVersion | Columbia Records (Johnny Cash Folsom Prison version) ⓘ |
| setting |
American South (in many versions)
ⓘ
linked to:
Deep South
courtroom (trial scene) ⓘ prison ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
cocaine
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homicide ⓘ law enforcement ⓘ moral warning about drugs ⓘ |
| theme |
crime
ⓘ
drug use ⓘ imprisonment ⓘ murder ⓘ punishment ⓘ |
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: Cocaine Blues Description of subject: "Cocaine Blues" is a classic American country-folk murder ballad most famously associated with Johnny Cash, who delivered a legendary performance of it on his Live at Folsom Prison album.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cocaine Blues