The Meaning of the Blues
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"The Meaning of the Blues" is a jazz composition best known for its evocative, melancholic melody and for being interpreted by Miles Davis on his landmark orchestral collaboration with Gil Evans.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Meaning of the Blues canonical | 5 |
| Meaning of the Blues | 1 |
| The Meaning of the Blues / Lament | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8238925 — 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: The Meaning of the Blues Context triple: [Miles Ahead, includesTrack, The Meaning of the Blues]
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A.
Story of the Blues
"Story of the Blues" is a song by English band After Hours, known for its emotive reflection on hardship and resilience in the blues tradition.
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B.
Me and the Blues
Me and the Blues is a jazz and blues vocal album by renowned singer Joe Williams, showcasing his rich baritone voice in a set of soulful, swinging performances.
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C.
Preachin’ the Blues
Preachin’ the Blues is a seminal Delta blues song by Son House, celebrated for its raw vocal intensity, slide guitar work, and profound influence on later blues and rock musicians.
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D.
Blues People
Blues People is a seminal 1963 work of cultural criticism by Amiri Baraka that traces the history of African American music as a lens on Black experience and U.S. social history.
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E.
Risin’ with the Blues
Risin’ with the Blues is a late-career blues album by Ike Turner that showcases his enduring musicianship and earned critical acclaim, including a Grammy Award.
- 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: The Meaning of the Blues Target entity description: "The Meaning of the Blues" is a jazz composition best known for its evocative, melancholic melody and for being interpreted by Miles Davis on his landmark orchestral collaboration with Gil Evans.
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A.
Story of the Blues
"Story of the Blues" is a song by English band After Hours, known for its emotive reflection on hardship and resilience in the blues tradition.
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B.
Me and the Blues
Me and the Blues is a jazz and blues vocal album by renowned singer Joe Williams, showcasing his rich baritone voice in a set of soulful, swinging performances.
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C.
Preachin’ the Blues
Preachin’ the Blues is a seminal Delta blues song by Son House, celebrated for its raw vocal intensity, slide guitar work, and profound influence on later blues and rock musicians.
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D.
Blues People
Blues People is a seminal 1963 work of cultural criticism by Amiri Baraka that traces the history of African American music as a lens on Black experience and U.S. social history.
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E.
Risin’ with the Blues
Risin’ with the Blues is a late-career blues album by Ike Turner that showcases his enduring musicianship and earned critical acclaim, including a Grammy Award.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
jazz composition
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| genre | jazz ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later jazz ballad interpretations ⓘ |
| hasMusicalCharacteristic |
evocative mood
ⓘ
melancholic melody ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | ballad ⓘ |
| hasNotableVersion | Miles Davis and Gil Evans orchestral version ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
blues
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emotional reflection ⓘ sadness ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
Gil Evans
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Miles Davis ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyDescribedAs |
evocative
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melancholic ⓘ |
| isIncludedIn | Miles Davis–Gil Evans collaborations ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
being interpreted by Miles Davis
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melancholic, introspective character ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Miles Ahead ⓘ |
| isPerformedAs | jazz standard ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy | Miles Davis ⓘ |
| orchestrationBy | Gil Evans ⓘ |
| recordedAs | orchestral jazz arrangement ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Miles Davis ⓘ |
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: The Meaning of the Blues Description of subject: "The Meaning of the Blues" is a jazz composition best known for its evocative, melancholic melody and for being interpreted by Miles Davis on his landmark orchestral collaboration with Gil Evans.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Meaning of the Blues
linked to: The Meaning of the Blues