Blues Is My Business
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"Blues Is My Business" is a blues track best known from Etta James’s late-career repertoire, often covered by other artists for its driving, classic blues style.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Blues Is My Business | 2 |
| Blues Is My Business canonical | 1 |
| Blues Is My Business (Etta James recording) | 1 |
| Blues Is My Business (cover) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9042355 — 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: Blues Is My Business Context triple: [Soulfire, hasPart, Blues Is My Business]
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A.
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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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.
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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D.
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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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: Blues Is My Business Target entity description: "Blues Is My Business" is a blues track best known from Etta James’s late-career repertoire, often covered by other artists for its driving, classic blues style.
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A.
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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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.
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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D.
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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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 (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
ⓘ
sound recording ⓘ |
| composer |
Kevin Bowe
ⓘ
Todd Cerney ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
blues ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
classic blues structure
ⓘ
driving shuffle feel ⓘ up‑tempo groove ⓘ |
| hasForm | 12‑bar blues ⓘ |
| hasHookLine | "The blues is my business, and business is good" ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ horn section ⓘ keyboards ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasLyricalPerspective | first person ⓘ |
| hasNotableCover | Blues Is My Business (cover versions by various blues bands) ⓘ |
| hasNotableVersion |
Blues Is My Business (Etta James recording)
ⓘ
linked to:
Blues Is My Business
|
| hasReception | regarded as a standout of Etta James’s late‑career recordings ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
electric blues
ⓘ
modern blues ⓘ |
| hasTempo | up‑tempo ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
assertive personal independence
ⓘ
embracing the blues lifestyle ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyCoveredBy | contemporary blues artists ⓘ |
| isPartOfRepertoireOf | Etta James ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Kevin Bowe
ⓘ
Todd Cerney ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Etta James ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum |
Let's Roll
ⓘ
linked to:
Let’s Roll
|
| performer | Etta James ⓘ |
| producer |
Donto James
ⓘ
Etta James ⓘ Josh Sklair ⓘ Sametto James ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Private Music ⓘ |
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: Blues Is My Business Description of subject: "Blues Is My Business" is a blues track best known from Etta James’s late-career repertoire, often covered by other artists for its driving, classic blues style.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Let’s Roll
linked to: Blues Is My Business
linked to: Blues Is My Business
linked to: Blues Is My Business