Minnie McCoy
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Minnie McCoy, better known as Memphis Minnie, was a pioneering and influential American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter active from the 1920s through the 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minnie McCoy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6716697 — 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: Minnie McCoy Context triple: [Memphis Minnie, alsoKnownAs, Minnie McCoy]
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A.
Minnie Pearl
Minnie Pearl was a beloved American country comedian and longtime Grand Ole Opry star known for her straw hat with a dangling price tag and her down-home humor.
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B.
Peppy Miller
Peppy Miller is a charismatic rising film star in the silent-to-sound era, best known as the female lead in the 2011 French film "The Artist."
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C.
Minnie Pearson Dow
Minnie Pearson Dow was the wife of American painter and influential art educator Arthur Wesley Dow, likely involved in the artistic and cultural circles surrounding his career.
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D.
Dolly Talbo
Dolly Talbo is a gentle, eccentric older woman in Truman Capote’s novella "The Grass Harp," known for her independent spirit and close bond with the young narrator.
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E.
Myrtle Fillmore
Myrtle Fillmore was an American spiritual leader and co-founder of the Unity Church, a major movement within New Thought emphasizing healing, affirmative prayer, and practical Christianity.
- 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: Minnie McCoy Target entity description: Minnie McCoy, better known as Memphis Minnie, was a pioneering and influential American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter active from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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A.
Minnie Pearl
Minnie Pearl was a beloved American country comedian and longtime Grand Ole Opry star known for her straw hat with a dangling price tag and her down-home humor.
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B.
Peppy Miller
Peppy Miller is a charismatic rising film star in the silent-to-sound era, best known as the female lead in the 2011 French film "The Artist."
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C.
Minnie Pearson Dow
Minnie Pearson Dow was the wife of American painter and influential art educator Arthur Wesley Dow, likely involved in the artistic and cultural circles surrounding his career.
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D.
Dolly Talbo
Dolly Talbo is a gentle, eccentric older woman in Truman Capote’s novella "The Grass Harp," known for her independent spirit and close bond with the young narrator.
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E.
Myrtle Fillmore
Myrtle Fillmore was an American spiritual leader and co-founder of the Unity Church, a major movement within New Thought emphasizing healing, affirmative prayer, and practical Christianity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues musician
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human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1950 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Kid Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Ernest Lawlars
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kansas Joe McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Lizzie Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery, Walls, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1897-06-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1973-08-06 ⓘ |
| genre |
Chicago blues
NERFINISHED
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blues ⓘ country blues ⓘ |
| givenName | Lizzie Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chicago blues musicians
ⓘ
electric blues guitarists ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
one of the most popular female country blues singers of the 1930s
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pioneering female blues guitarist ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bumble Bee
NERFINISHED
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Me and My Chauffeur Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ When the Levee Breaks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
blues guitarist
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blues singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performanceStyle |
bottleneck slide guitar
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fingerstyle guitar ⓘ |
| performingNameOrigin | Memphis, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Algiers, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Bluebird Records
NERFINISHED
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Columbia Records ⓘ Decca Records ⓘ Vocalion Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Casey Bill Weldon
NERFINISHED
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Ernest Lawlars NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Memphis Minnie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalType | vocals ⓘ |
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: Minnie McCoy Description of subject: Minnie McCoy, better known as Memphis Minnie, was a pioneering and influential American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter active from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.