Lead Belly
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Lead Belly was an influential American folk and blues musician renowned for his powerful vocals, 12-string guitar playing, and vast repertoire of traditional songs that deeply shaped the mid-20th-century folk revival.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lead Belly canonical | 16 |
| Leadbelly | 2 |
| Huddie | 1 |
| Huddie Ledbetter | 1 |
| Huddie William Ledbetter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T835130 — 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.
Target entity: Lead Belly Context triple: [American folk music revival, hasNotableFigure, Lead Belly]
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A.
Jimmie Rogers
Jimmie Rogers was an American country singer and songwriter known for his work with the group The First Edition and for hits like "Honeycomb" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine."
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B.
W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy was an influential American composer and musician widely known as the "Father of the Blues" for popularizing the blues genre in the early 20th century.
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C.
Sonny Boy
"Sonny Boy" is a popular 1928 sentimental ballad famously performed by Al Jolson that became one of the era’s best-selling songs.
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D.
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie was an American folk singer-songwriter and political troubadour whose socially conscious songs, including "This Land Is Your Land," profoundly shaped 20th-century popular and protest music.
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E.
Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf was a towering American blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player whose powerful voice and influential recordings helped shape Chicago blues and rock music.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Lead Belly Target entity description: Lead Belly was an influential American folk and blues musician renowned for his powerful vocals, 12-string guitar playing, and vast repertoire of traditional songs that deeply shaped the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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A.
Jimmie Rogers
Jimmie Rogers was an American country singer and songwriter known for his work with the group The First Edition and for hits like "Honeycomb" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine."
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B.
W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy was an influential American composer and musician widely known as the "Father of the Blues" for popularizing the blues genre in the early 20th century.
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C.
Sonny Boy
"Sonny Boy" is a popular 1928 sentimental ballad famously performed by Al Jolson that became one of the era’s best-selling songs.
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D.
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie was an American folk singer-songwriter and political troubadour whose socially conscious songs, including "This Land Is Your Land," profoundly shaped 20th-century popular and protest music.
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E.
Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf was a towering American blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player whose powerful voice and influential recordings helped shape Chicago blues and rock music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues musician
ⓘ
folk musician ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lead Belly
ⓘ
surface form:
Huddie Ledbetter
Lead Belly ⓘ
surface form:
Leadbelly
|
| birthName |
Lead Belly
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Huddie William Ledbetter
|
| causeOfDeath | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Alan Lomax
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John Lomax ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1888-01-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1949-12-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Ledbetter ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | traditional American music ⓘ |
| genre |
ballad
ⓘ
blues ⓘ folk music ⓘ spiritual ⓘ work song ⓘ |
| givenName |
Lead Belly
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Huddie
|
| hasInfluenceOn | mid-20th-century folk revival ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bob Dylan
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Lonnie Donegan ⓘ Nirvana ⓘ Pete Seeger ⓘ The Weavers ⓘ Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| instrument | 12-string guitar ⓘ |
| movement | American folk music revival ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
distinctive 12-string guitar style
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extensive repertoire of traditional songs ⓘ powerful vocals ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cotton Fields
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Goodnight Irene ⓘ
surface form:
Goodnight, Irene
Midnight Special ⓘ Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ⓘ
surface form:
Rock Island Line
Where Did You Sleep Last Night ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mooringsport, Louisiana, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| recordedFor | Library of Congress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Lead Belly Description of subject: Lead Belly was an influential American folk and blues musician renowned for his powerful vocals, 12-string guitar playing, and vast repertoire of traditional songs that deeply shaped the mid-20th-century folk revival.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.