Katie Mae Blues
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"Katie Mae Blues" is a classic country blues song by Lightnin’ Hopkins, celebrated for its sparse guitar accompaniment and evocative storytelling about a woman named Katie Mae.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Katie Mae Blues canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10547861 — 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: Katie Mae Blues Context triple: [Lightnin’ Hopkins, notableWork, Katie Mae Blues]
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A.
Mama Tried
"Mama Tried" is a classic 1968 country song by Merle Haggard that reflects on regret and personal responsibility from the perspective of an imprisoned man.
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B.
Bad Case of the Blues
"Bad Case of the Blues" is a country song recorded by pioneering African-American country singer Linda Martell, known for showcasing her soulful vocal style during her groundbreaking late-1960s career.
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C.
Whoopin' the Blues
"Whoopin' the Blues" is a classic blues harmonica piece by Sonny Terry, showcasing his energetic whooping vocal style and virtuoso country-blues harp playing.
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D.
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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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: Katie Mae Blues Target entity description: "Katie Mae Blues" is a classic country blues song by Lightnin’ Hopkins, celebrated for its sparse guitar accompaniment and evocative storytelling about a woman named Katie Mae.
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A.
Mama Tried
"Mama Tried" is a classic 1968 country song by Merle Haggard that reflects on regret and personal responsibility from the perspective of an imprisoned man.
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B.
Bad Case of the Blues
"Bad Case of the Blues" is a country song recorded by pioneering African-American country singer Linda Martell, known for showcasing her soulful vocal style during her groundbreaking late-1960s career.
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C.
Whoopin' the Blues
"Whoopin' the Blues" is a classic blues harmonica piece by Sonny Terry, showcasing his energetic whooping vocal style and virtuoso country-blues harp playing.
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D.
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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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 (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country blues song
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song ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Lightnin’ Hopkins ⓘ |
| composer | Lightnin’ Hopkins ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
country blues ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later blues musicians ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
acoustic guitar
ⓘ
voice ⓘ |
| hasMainSubject | Katie Mae ⓘ |
| hasMood |
intimate
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Katie Mae ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Lightnin’ Hopkins ⓘ |
| lyricTheme |
romantic admiration
ⓘ
storytelling about Katie Mae ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | sparse guitar accompaniment ⓘ |
| musicTradition |
Texas blues
ⓘ
country blues tradition ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a woman named Katie Mae ⓘ |
| notableFor |
evocative storytelling
ⓘ
sparse guitar accompaniment ⓘ |
| partOf | Lightnin’ Hopkins repertoire ⓘ |
| performer | Lightnin’ Hopkins ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Lightnin’ Hopkins ⓘ |
| vocalAccompaniment | solo guitar ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | country blues vocal delivery ⓘ |
| writer | Lightnin’ Hopkins ⓘ |
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: Katie Mae Blues Description of subject: "Katie Mae Blues" is a classic country blues song by Lightnin’ Hopkins, celebrated for its sparse guitar accompaniment and evocative storytelling about a woman named Katie Mae.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.