Down the Dirt Road Blues
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"Down the Dirt Road Blues" is an influential early Delta blues song by Charley Patton, noted for its raw vocal style and evocative guitar work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Down the Dirt Road Blues canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7854158 — 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: Down the Dirt Road Blues Context triple: [Charley Patton, notableWork, Down the Dirt Road Blues]
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A.
Dirt Road Blues
"Dirt Road Blues" is a gritty, up-tempo blues track by Bob Dylan from his acclaimed late-career comeback album *Time Out of Mind*.
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B.
Cross Road Blues
"Cross Road Blues" is a seminal 1936 Delta blues song by Robert Johnson that has become one of the most influential and mythologized recordings in blues and rock history.
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C.
Long Lonesome Blues
"Long Lonesome Blues" is an influential early country blues song by Blind Lemon Jefferson, noted for its expressive vocals and guitar work that helped shape the Texas blues style.
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D.
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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E.
Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man
Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man is a 1969 rock album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, noted for its raw Detroit rock sound and the hit title track.
- 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: Down the Dirt Road Blues Target entity description: "Down the Dirt Road Blues" is an influential early Delta blues song by Charley Patton, noted for its raw vocal style and evocative guitar work.
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A.
Dirt Road Blues
"Dirt Road Blues" is a gritty, up-tempo blues track by Bob Dylan from his acclaimed late-career comeback album *Time Out of Mind*.
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B.
Cross Road Blues
"Cross Road Blues" is a seminal 1936 Delta blues song by Robert Johnson that has become one of the most influential and mythologized recordings in blues and rock history.
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C.
Long Lonesome Blues
"Long Lonesome Blues" is an influential early country blues song by Blind Lemon Jefferson, noted for its expressive vocals and guitar work that helped shape the Texas blues style.
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D.
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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E.
Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man
Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man is a 1969 rock album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, noted for its raw Detroit rock sound and the hit title track.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Delta blues song
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song ⓘ |
| artist | Charley Patton ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | country blues ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Charley Patton ⓘ |
| composer | Charley Patton ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| genre | Delta blues ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRegion |
Mississippi Delta
ⓘ
linked to:
North Mississippi Delta
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| hasHistoricalSignificance | early example of recorded Delta blues ⓘ |
| hasMusicalFeature |
call-and-response between voice and guitar
ⓘ
slide guitar elements ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | blues ⓘ |
| hasPerformanceStyle | solo voice and guitar ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
hardship
ⓘ
rural life ⓘ travel ⓘ |
| hasVocalType | male vocal ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
Delta blues
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blues ⓘ |
| instrumentation | guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Charley Patton ⓘ |
| notedFor |
evocative guitar work
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influential early Delta blues sound ⓘ |
| partOf | Charley Patton discography ⓘ |
| performer | Charley Patton ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Charley Patton ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | raw vocal style ⓘ |
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: Down the Dirt Road Blues Description of subject: "Down the Dirt Road Blues" is an influential early Delta blues song by Charley Patton, noted for its raw vocal style and evocative guitar work.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.