Hoodoo Lady
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"Hoodoo Lady" is a blues song by Memphis Minnie that showcases her distinctive guitar work and lyrical style rooted in folk magic themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hoodoo Lady canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6716719 — 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: Hoodoo Lady Context triple: [Memphis Minnie, notableWork, Hoodoo Lady]
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A.
Hoodoo Ann
Hoodoo Ann is a 1916 American silent comedy-drama film starring Mae Marsh and directed by Lloyd Ingraham, produced under the supervision of D. W. Griffith.
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B.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a long, poetic ballad by Bob Dylan, celebrated for its hypnotic lyrics and closing position on his landmark album Blonde on Blonde.
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C.
Hootie Blues
"Hootie Blues" is a classic Kansas City jazz and blues piece closely associated with pianist and bandleader Jay McShann and early bebop-era sounds.
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D.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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E.
Sweet Lady
"Sweet Lady" is a popular R&B single by Tyrese Gibson, released in 1998 and widely recognized as one of his signature songs.
- 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: Hoodoo Lady Target entity description: "Hoodoo Lady" is a blues song by Memphis Minnie that showcases her distinctive guitar work and lyrical style rooted in folk magic themes.
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A.
Hoodoo Ann
Hoodoo Ann is a 1916 American silent comedy-drama film starring Mae Marsh and directed by Lloyd Ingraham, produced under the supervision of D. W. Griffith.
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B.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a long, poetic ballad by Bob Dylan, celebrated for its hypnotic lyrics and closing position on his landmark album Blonde on Blonde.
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C.
Hootie Blues
"Hootie Blues" is a classic Kansas City jazz and blues piece closely associated with pianist and bandleader Jay McShann and early bebop-era sounds.
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D.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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E.
Sweet Lady
"Sweet Lady" is a popular R&B single by Tyrese Gibson, released in 1998 and widely recognized as one of his signature songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| artist | Memphis Minnie ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Memphis Minnie ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresInstrument | guitar ⓘ |
| featuresVocalStyle | female blues vocal ⓘ |
| genre | blues ⓘ |
| guitarist | Memphis Minnie ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | African American blues tradition ⓘ |
| hasEra | early 20th century blues ⓘ |
| hasForm | vocal blues with guitar accompaniment ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
Delta blues
ⓘ
country blues ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
romantic control through magic
ⓘ
spell casting ⓘ supernatural powers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African American folk traditions
ⓘ
Southern hoodoo practices ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
folk magic
ⓘ
hoodoo ⓘ love and relationships ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive guitar work
ⓘ
folk magic themed lyrics ⓘ |
| partOf | Memphis Minnie song catalog ⓘ |
| performer | Memphis Minnie ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Memphis Minnie ⓘ |
| vocalist | Memphis Minnie ⓘ |
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: Hoodoo Lady Description of subject: "Hoodoo Lady" is a blues song by Memphis Minnie that showcases her distinctive guitar work and lyrical style rooted in folk magic themes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.