Moonshine Blues
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"Moonshine Blues" is a classic early blues song popularized by pioneering American blues singer Ma Rainey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moonshine Blues canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9132053 — 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: Moonshine Blues Context triple: [Ma Rainey, notableSong, Moonshine Blues]
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A.
Black Crow Blues
"Black Crow Blues" is an early Bob Dylan song that blends folk and blues influences, featured on his 1964 album *Another Side of Bob Dylan*.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Tishomingo Blues
Tishomingo Blues is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends Southern noir, Dixieland jazz, and dark humor in a story of a high-diver entangled with the Dixie Mafia and Civil War reenactors.
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E.
Them Dirty Blues
Them Dirty Blues is a hard bop jazz album by alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, celebrated for its soulful performances and classic small-group arrangements.
- 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: Moonshine Blues Target entity description: "Moonshine Blues" is a classic early blues song popularized by pioneering American blues singer Ma Rainey.
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A.
Black Crow Blues
"Black Crow Blues" is an early Bob Dylan song that blends folk and blues influences, featured on his 1964 album *Another Side of Bob Dylan*.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Tishomingo Blues
Tishomingo Blues is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends Southern noir, Dixieland jazz, and dark humor in a story of a high-diver entangled with the Dixie Mafia and Civil War reenactors.
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E.
Them Dirty Blues
Them Dirty Blues is a hard bop jazz album by alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, celebrated for its soulful performances and classic small-group arrangements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist | Ma Rainey ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | classic blues era ⓘ |
| composer | Ma Rainey ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 1920s ⓘ |
| genre | blues ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
African-American music
ⓘ
early 20th-century American South ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later blues singers ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm | twelve-bar blues ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alcohol
ⓘ
coping with pain ⓘ heartache ⓘ moonshine ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ sorrow ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ma Rainey ⓘ |
| medium | shellac record ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Ma Rainey ⓘ |
| performer | Ma Rainey ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | Ma Rainey ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Ma Rainey ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Paramount Records ⓘ |
| style | early blues ⓘ |
| subgenre | classic female blues ⓘ |
| vocalist | Ma Rainey ⓘ |
| vocalType | female vocal ⓘ |
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: Moonshine Blues Description of subject: "Moonshine Blues" is a classic early blues song popularized by pioneering American blues singer Ma Rainey.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.