Pete Kelly's Blues
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Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1950s American crime drama franchise—best known as a radio series and later a film—centered on a jazz cornet player entangled with gangsters during the Prohibition era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pete Kelly's Blues canonical | 1 |
| Pete Kelly's Blues (1955 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10573632 — 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: Pete Kelly's Blues Context triple: [Jack Webb, notableWork, Pete Kelly's Blues]
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A.
Blues in the Night
"Blues in the Night" is a classic American popular song from 1941, renowned as a jazz and pop standard and widely recorded by numerous prominent artists.
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B.
Match Box Blues
"Match Box Blues" is a classic early country blues song by Blind Lemon Jefferson, renowned for its expressive vocals, intricate guitar work, and lasting influence on later blues and rock musicians.
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C.
Elwood Blues
Elwood Blues is a fictional harmonica-playing musician and one half of the comedic rhythm and blues duo The Blues Brothers, famously portrayed by Dan Aykroyd.
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D.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
"Stompin’ at the Savoy" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, closely associated with the Harlem Savoy Ballroom and famed for its infectious rhythm and enduring popularity among big band and jazz ensembles.
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E.
Luck Be a Lady
"Luck Be a Lady" is a classic show tune from the Broadway musical *Guys and Dolls*, famously performed by Frank Sinatra and widely recognized as a standard of the American songbook.
- 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: Pete Kelly's Blues Target entity description: Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1950s American crime drama franchise—best known as a radio series and later a film—centered on a jazz cornet player entangled with gangsters during the Prohibition era.
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A.
Blues in the Night
"Blues in the Night" is a classic American popular song from 1941, renowned as a jazz and pop standard and widely recorded by numerous prominent artists.
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B.
Match Box Blues
"Match Box Blues" is a classic early country blues song by Blind Lemon Jefferson, renowned for its expressive vocals, intricate guitar work, and lasting influence on later blues and rock musicians.
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C.
Elwood Blues
Elwood Blues is a fictional harmonica-playing musician and one half of the comedic rhythm and blues duo The Blues Brothers, famously portrayed by Dan Aykroyd.
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D.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
"Stompin’ at the Savoy" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, closely associated with the Harlem Savoy Ballroom and famed for its infectious rhythm and enduring popularity among big band and jazz ensembles.
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E.
Luck Be a Lady
"Luck Be a Lady" is a classic show tune from the Broadway musical *Guys and Dolls*, famously performed by Frank Sinatra and widely recognized as a standard of the American songbook.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American crime drama franchise
ⓘ
feature film ⓘ radio series ⓘ |
| basedOn | Pete Kelly's Blues (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character | Pete Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Harold Rosson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jack Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| featuredMusicBy | Dixieland jazz bands ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Pete Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAirDate | 1951 ⓘ |
| format | half-hour episodes ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
crime drama ⓘ crime drama ⓘ film noir ⓘ musical film ⓘ radio drama ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Pete Kelly's Blues (film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pete Kelly's Blues (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastAirDate | 1951 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Pete Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Ray Heindorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | jazz cornet player ⓘ |
| notablePerformanceBy | Peggy Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong | Pete Kelly's Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 13 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
English
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English ⓘ English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC Radio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Jack Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Richard L. Breen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
Kansas City
NERFINISHED
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Kansas City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime |
1920s
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Prohibition era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starred |
Andy Devine
NERFINISHED
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Jack Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ Janet Leigh NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Marvin NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Pete Kelly's Blues Description of subject: Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1950s American crime drama franchise—best known as a radio series and later a film—centered on a jazz cornet player entangled with gangsters during the Prohibition era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.