My Old Friend the Blues
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"My Old Friend the Blues" is a country-inflected song of heartache and resignation, originally written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| My Old Friend the Blues canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10488643 — 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: My Old Friend the Blues Context triple: [Sunshine on Leith, includesSong, My Old Friend the Blues]
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A.
Day Old Blues
"Day Old Blues" is a melancholic indie rock song by Kings of Leon featured on their 2004 album *Aha Shake Heartbreak*.
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B.
Talkin' Blues
"Talkin' Blues" is a roots reggae song by Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for its socially conscious lyrics and laid-back groove, featured on the landmark album "Natty Dread."
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C.
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
"I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" is a popular 1983 Elton John ballad known for its soulful melody, harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder, and themes of love and longing.
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D.
Beale Street Blues
"Beale Street Blues" is a classic early 20th-century American blues song that helped popularize the genre and is closely associated with the musical culture of Memphis, Tennessee.
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E.
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.
- 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: My Old Friend the Blues Target entity description: "My Old Friend the Blues" is a country-inflected song of heartache and resignation, originally written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle.
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A.
Day Old Blues
"Day Old Blues" is a melancholic indie rock song by Kings of Leon featured on their 2004 album *Aha Shake Heartbreak*.
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B.
Talkin' Blues
"Talkin' Blues" is a roots reggae song by Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for its socially conscious lyrics and laid-back groove, featured on the landmark album "Natty Dread."
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C.
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
"I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" is a popular 1983 Elton John ballad known for its soulful melody, harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder, and themes of love and longing.
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D.
Beale Street Blues
"Beale Street Blues" is a classic early 20th-century American blues song that helped popularize the genre and is closely associated with the musical culture of Memphis, Tennessee.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| composer | Steve Earle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
country
ⓘ
country rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ drums ⓘ electric guitar ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | country-inflected ⓘ |
| hasNotableCoverVersionBy |
Blue Rodeo
ⓘ
Eleanor Shanley ⓘ Tanya Tucker ⓘ The Proclaimers ⓘ |
| hasType | country ballad ⓘ |
| includedIn | Steve Earle live setlists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Steve Earle ⓘ |
| originallyRecordedBy | Steve Earle ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum | Guitar Town ⓘ |
| performer | Steve Earle ⓘ |
| producer |
Emory Gordy Jr.
ⓘ
Tony Brown ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
MCA Nashville
ⓘ
MCA Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| theme |
heartache
ⓘ
loneliness ⓘ resignation ⓘ |
| vocalist | Steve Earle ⓘ |
| writer | Steve Earle ⓘ |
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: My Old Friend the Blues Description of subject: "My Old Friend the Blues" is a country-inflected song of heartache and resignation, originally written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.