Limehouse Blues (performance)
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"Limehouse Blues" is a celebrated performance piece famously associated with British actress and singer Gertrude Lawrence, showcasing her talent in early 20th-century musical entertainment.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Limehouse Blues | 5 |
| "Limehouse Blues" | 1 |
| Limehouse Blues (performance) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11458184 — 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: Limehouse Blues (performance) Context triple: [Gertrude Lawrence, notableWork, Limehouse Blues (performance)]
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A.
West End Blues
"West End Blues" is a landmark 1928 jazz recording renowned for Louis Armstrong's virtuosic trumpet intro and its pivotal role in the development of solo improvisation in jazz.
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B.
The Windsor Park Blues
The Windsor Park Blues is a nickname for Linfield FC, one of Northern Ireland’s most successful and historically significant football clubs.
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C.
Live at the Apollo
Live at the Apollo is a British stand-up comedy television series filmed at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, featuring performances by a wide range of popular comedians.
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D.
Live at the Apollo
Live at the Apollo is a landmark 1963 live soul album by James Brown, celebrated for its electrifying performance and major influence on live recording in popular music.
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E.
The Secret Policeman’s Ball
The Secret Policeman’s Ball is a famed British comedy and music benefit show series, originally staged for Amnesty International, that brought together leading comedians and musicians in the late 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Limehouse Blues (performance) Target entity description: "Limehouse Blues" is a celebrated performance piece famously associated with British actress and singer Gertrude Lawrence, showcasing her talent in early 20th-century musical entertainment.
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A.
West End Blues
"West End Blues" is a landmark 1928 jazz recording renowned for Louis Armstrong's virtuosic trumpet intro and its pivotal role in the development of solo improvisation in jazz.
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B.
The Windsor Park Blues
The Windsor Park Blues is a nickname for Linfield FC, one of Northern Ireland’s most successful and historically significant football clubs.
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C.
Live at the Apollo
Live at the Apollo is a British stand-up comedy television series filmed at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, featuring performances by a wide range of popular comedians.
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D.
Live at the Apollo
Live at the Apollo is a landmark 1963 live soul album by James Brown, celebrated for its electrifying performance and major influence on live recording in popular music.
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E.
The Secret Policeman’s Ball
The Secret Policeman’s Ball is a famed British comedy and music benefit show series, originally staged for Amnesty International, that brought together leading comedians and musicians in the late 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical performance
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song performance ⓘ |
| artForm | vocal music ⓘ |
| associatedPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Gertrude Lawrence ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | British musical entertainment ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | London theatre scene ⓘ |
| countryOfPerformance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| famousFor | being one of Gertrude Lawrence’s signature numbers ⓘ |
| genre |
cabaret
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music hall ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| hasPerformerOccupation |
actress
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| influencedByContext | early 20th-century British popular entertainment ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | voice ⓘ |
| notableFor |
showcasing Gertrude Lawrence’s stage presence
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showcasing Gertrude Lawrence’s vocal talent ⓘ |
| partOf | Gertrude Lawrence’s stage repertoire ⓘ |
| performanceLanguage | English lyrics ⓘ |
| performanceType | solo vocal performance ⓘ |
| performer | Gertrude Lawrence ⓘ |
| title |
Limehouse Blues
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Limehouse Blues (performance)
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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: Limehouse Blues (performance) Description of subject: "Limehouse Blues" is a celebrated performance piece famously associated with British actress and singer Gertrude Lawrence, showcasing her talent in early 20th-century musical entertainment.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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